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Farmer spends seven years lovingly restoring crumbling old Czartoryski palace after ‘feeling sorry’ for it

Passing the abandoned palace in Lower Silesian every day on his way to work, crop farmer Józef Żałobniak eventually decided to buy the place and turn it into a hotel spa. Józef Żałobniak/Pałac Lubiechowa Hotel Restauracja SPA/Facebook

Passing the abandoned palace in Lower Silesian every day on his way to work, crop farmer Józef Żałobniak eventually decided to buy the place and turn it into a hotel spa saying: “I wanted to save it for other people to enjoy. That was my dream.”

Goodbye to all that: travel highlights from the year just gone

From polar bear trails to revamped castles, Webber presents his top travel finds of 2020.

Author’s mission to document fate of Lower Silesia’s forgotten palaces reveals ‘harrowing agony of a silent apocalypse’

Hannibal Smoke’s ‘The Silent Apocalypse - The ruined palaces of Lower Silesia’ is an emotive and harrowing tale documenting the fate of the region’s hundreds of abandoned palaces and estates.

Best place in Poland?

Who knows Poland better than Alex Webber? He's a legendary Poland expat, perhaps the most travelled Brit in Poland.

Late baroque magnate residence has opened its virtual doors

Zamoyski Museum is a palace located in Kozłówka, a village in the Lublin Voivodeship. It is a residence, where two families Bieliński and Zamoyski used to live.

The Louvre of Łódź: Once a faded jewel, Poznański Palace has regained its perch as one of the nation’s most magnificent urban structures

Specifically renovated to coincide with the 200th anniversary of “modern” Łódź this year, with its elegant interiors and beautiful works of art, the palace is like ‘a time machine’, oozing with the splendour of the age.

Fifty years ago today Lubomirski Palace was cut from its foundations and ROTATED 74 degrees - to fit ‘aesthetic vision’ of city planners

Deciding the newly rebuilt palace interfered with their architectural concept, post-war planners placed the 8,000-tonne, 65-metre-long and 18-metre-wide palace on 16 tracks and then spent 49 days moving it to its current location.

Historic Warsaw garden has rosy future after making it on to prestigious heritage list

Heritage conservator Jakub Lewicki justified the entry onto the list saying that the garden has important historical value and pointed out that the garden is a valuable element of one of the oldest representative parts of central Warsaw.

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