The
Wooden Architecture Route
is
a collection of
the
most valuable and
the
most interesting monuments
of
wooden architecture.
Following
it
you will
see
picturesque Catholic and Orthodox churches,
roadside chapels,
beautiful villas and manor
houses,
rural cottages
with
outbuildings,
interesting
open-air
museums
and many
others.
The
Wooden Architecture Route
is
a
project
designed to
promote
and
thereby
save
from
oblivion the
most
valuable wooden objects
in
southern Poland. It was
initially
the
project of
three
voivodships
- Silesian,
Subcarpathian
and
Lesser
Poland.
After several years also Swietokrzyskie Voivodship have joined the
Route.
There
are
several
hundred
objects
on the Route that are
the
memorial
of
architecture,
culture and art
of
the
ancient countryside.
They
are also valuable because of their small number.
The
most precious
monuments
have
been
inscribed
on the
UNESCO
World
Heritage
List.
These
include
churches
in
the villages
Binarowa,
Debno
Podhalanskie,
Lipnica
Murowana,
Sekowa,
Blizne
and
Haczow.
Here
are some
of
many
interesting
sights
located
on
the
Wooden Architecture Route:
St.Elizabeth’s Church in Trybsz
(Lesser Poland) - Wooden
church dating back to the
sixteenth
century
built
with
the log
construction use,
covered
with shingles.
The
walls
and
ceiling
in the inside of
the church
are
decorated with
beautiful
polychromy
from
the seventeenth century
depicting
biblical
and
Marian
scenes.
Some scenes are painted against the backdrop of the panoramas of the
Pieniny and the Tatras (probably
the first
known representation of those mountains in Poland).
The
Rural Architecture Museum
in
Sanok
(Subcarpathian
Voivodship) -
It
is the largest,
picturesquely
situated
ethnographic
museum
in
Poland.
Area
of its interest
concerns
south-eastern
Poland.
Historic
buildings
have
been
divided
into
several sectors
devoted
to
distinct
cultures.
Zalipie village (Lesser Poland) - Known
as the Painted Village thanks to floral ornaments decorating walls of
numerous buildings (houses and farm buildings). In Zalipie you may
also visit a museum – The Homestead of Felicja Curyłowa, the most
famous painter from Zalipie.
Czernikiewicz
family
farmstead
in
Bodzentyn
(Swietokrzyskie
Voivodship)
-
Farmstead
is
an excellent
example
of
the
nineteenth-century
architecture
of
small
agricultural
towns.
It
consists of
residential
buildings
and
farm
buildings.
Inside
you can
see
the
traditional
items
of everyday use.
Folk
art exhibitions at the Regional Chambers in Koniakow
(Silesia) - Koniakow has a reputation for the production of beautiful
lace ornaments. Lace, paintings and sculpture exhibitions can be seen
in local museums and regional chambers.
The
Wooden Architecture Route
is
a
road
tourist trail
which
means that
it links
together objects
located
at
a greater distance
from
each other. The best
way
is to visit it
by
car or
other
means of transport.
Most
of the monuments
is
located
in
rural areas
where
traffic
is
smaller
therefore
may
be
the
one-day
cycling
tours destination.
There
is no
problem
to
find
them
because
there are
road signs
showing the way to particular places.
All
objects are
labeled
with
information
boards
with
descriptions
in
Polish,
English
and German.
Some
monuments
are
open
for visitors
–
it is good
to
check
opening
hours
in
advance.
Here
are the
websites
of the
Route
in
particular voivodships:
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