EXPLORE LOWER SILESIA!
Do you want to go on a trip around Lower Silesia? Check out my proposed routes. The tour plan is general and may be slightly modified, e.g. due to weather conditions. The price depends on the length of the trip, the selected language (Polish, English) and the size of the organized group. I invite you to cooperation!
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CHOOSE YOUR EXCURSION
The Valley of Palaces and Gardens – Around the Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg) Valley
It is in the heart of the Karkonosze mountain range (also known as the Giant Mountains or Riesengebirge) that you will be able to visit more than 30 palaces and castles. These locations offer an amazing experience and a chance to fire up your imagination.
The history of the valley includes Romantic structures, enchanted parks, fascinating stories of banquets and scandals, as well as blood chilling tales.
Where you visit and what you see is up to you. Bukowiec (Buchwald), Lomnica (Lomnitz), Karpniki (Fischbach), or maybe Siedlecin (Boberröhrsdorf) with its knight’s tower all are like a return trip to the time of Sir Lancelot.
We can plan these and many more attractions together 🙂
What we will discuss during the trip:
Jelenia Gora (Hirschberg), Karpacz (Krummahiebel or Krummhübel), Bukowiec, (Buchwald), Siedlecin (Boberröhrsdorf), Wlen (Lähn), Lomnica (Lomnitz), Karpniki (Fischbach), Rudawy Janowickie (Landeshuter Kamm or Landeshut Ridge), Góry Kaczawskie (Katzbach Mountains or Katzbachgebirge), Piast Trail, Chojnik (Kynast), Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau), Natura 2000 – nature protection areas, The Bobr River, Cieplice (Bad Warmbrunn), Radziwiłł family, Czartoryski family, Schaffgotsch family, Hohenzollern family, Mysłakowice (Erdmannsdorf-Zillerthal or Zillertha, Wojanów (Schildau), Polish Loire Valley
The Sudetes Fortresses
Nysa (Neisse), Klodsko (Glatz) or maybe Srebrna Gora (Silberberg)?
Which one of these former mighty strongholds would you like to see? We can see all of them together. These incredible fortification monuments are indicative of the greatness and significance of Silesia as one of the richest lands to date.
The Sudetes Fortresses is a journey to the halcyon days of these places, entering the heart of these structures – Donjon (donjon), feeling the atmosphere of the former casemates, as well as kilometres of underground chambers, footpaths and counter mine galleries.
We can plan this and many more attractions together. 🙂
Topics during the tour:
Nysa (Neisse), Nysa Stronghold, Klodsko (Glatz), Klodsko Stronghold, Srebrna Gora (Silberberg), Srebrna Góra Stronghold, casemates, Frederick II, Frederick the Great, Frederick William the Great, the Austro-Prussian War, the Silesian War, donjon, the Sudetes, Bardzkie Mountains (Warthagebirge), Ząbkowice Śląskie (Frankenstein), Nysa Kłodzka (Glatzer Neisse or Eastern Neisse), The Oder River, County of Kladsko (Grafschaft Glatz), Klodsko Land
Klodsko County (Grafschaft Glatz) and its Heritage Sites
A county ?
But we are not in England!
I would like to invite you on a journey through the Klodsko Valley – an enclave and a stronghold of the Habsburg Catholic faith, called a county exactly due to its importance. Here, you can marvel at the facilities not unlike the ones you may find in the Austrian Alps and get to the source of three rivers: The Oder, The Elbe and The Danube. You may also explore baroque palaces and castles and visit Poland’s only Phillumeny Museum dedicated to the themes of fire, matches and lighters.
You are welcome to contact me so we can set up a plan to explore the county 🙂
The history of the places and people you will learn about:
Klodsko, Glatz, Kladzko?, Klodsko Land, Klodsko County, The Sudetes, Bystrzyckie Mountains (Habelschwerdter Gebirge), Stolowe Mountains (Heuscheuergebirge), Bardzkie Mountains (Warthagebirge), Golden Mountains (Reichensteiner Gebirge), Snieznik Mountains (Glatzer Schneegebirge), Bialskie Mountains (Bielengebirge), Suche Mountains (literarily Dry Mountains), Orlickie Mountains (Adlergebirge), Piast Dynasty, Habsburg royal family, Roman Catholic bishopric of Prague, Frederick William the Great, Prussia, Klodsko Stronghold, Bystrzyca Klodska (Habelschwerdt), Chares Bridge miniature, John of Nepomuk, Adalbert of Prague, Mlynowka Channel, Hussites
The Piast Monuments in Lower Silesia
Ancient stories, legends of knights, kings, princesses, battles, and robbers will fire your imagination right up! And this is just the beginning… Our adventure culminates in the possibility of seeing and exploring such castles and monuments as Książ Castle, Grodziec Castle, Lenno Castle, Grodno Castle, Bolków Castle, Siedlecin Tower and many others. This is a voyage to the age of the first members of the Piast Royal Family, first settlements and castles as old as Poland itself.
We can plan this and many other attractions together 🙂
The history of the places and people you will learn about:
Piast Dynasty, Mieszko, The Silesian Piasts, The Monarchy od Henry, Henry II the Pious, Henry the Bearded, Henryk IV Probus, Bolesław III Wrymout, Bolcz Castle (Bolzenschloss), Rudawy Janowickie (Landeshuter Kamm or Landeshut Ridge), The Sudetes, the Karkonosze mountain range (Giant Mountains or Riesengebirge), St Jadwiga (St Hedwig), Duchess Anne, Bolesław II the Horned, Piotr Włostowic (Peter Wlast), Grodziec Castle, Chojnik Castle, Bolków Castle, Książ Castle, Siedlecin Tower, Lenno Castle, Lehnhaus, Ostrzyca (Probsthainer Spitzberg), The Middle Ages, Czocha Castle, The Dutchy of Świdnica and Jawor (Herzogtum Schweidnitz-Jauer), Bolko II the Small, Hussites
Ora et labora - on the Trail of Ancient Monasteries, Abbeys and Orders
I can take you to the land of ancient orders, the industrious and thrifty Cistercians and the Franciscans living as one with nature. I can also help you to get into the spirit of knightly orders – the Knights Templar. You, on the other hand, may wish to see how the Dominicans fared on these lands. Anything is possible.
The offer includes: Lubiąż Abbey (Kloster Leubus), Krzeszów Abbey, Henryków Abbey, Klodsko Monastery, Lwówek Sląski Abbey, Zlotoryja Monastery (Goldberg i. Schlesien).
You will learn about the history of which orders and places:
Franciscans, Cistercians, Benedictines, Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Commanderies, the Knights Templar, Henry the Bearded, Henry II the Pious, Henryk IV Probus, Order of Saint Augustine, Lubomierz (Liebenthal), the Dominican Order, the Jesuit Order