Lowicz Travel Guide

 ZiOOlek Says:  The medieval urban plan preserved; three-cornered market is a unique specimen on a European scale. There was a Gothic Town Hall from 1443 in the middle, it was ruined in the 20s.of the 19 century. Now there is a fountain in the middle. At present tenement-buildings from the... 

 ZiOOlek Says:  Late Renaissance, nowadays an academic church; originally wooden then partly brick. It was rebuilt about 1642, founded by Cebrowski. There was a church and Institute of St Leonard taking care for poor boys, so called Bartoszki. In 1780 there was established the first... 

 ZiOOlek Says:  The church is neo-ghotic, from 1910, according to design by Zaze. Interior from the 19th and 20th century. Nearby the monument of W. Grabski - the Prime Minister, "the father of Polish zloty", the author of Polish monetary reform in 1923. 

 ZiOOlek Says:  The former horse mail (1828-29), a coach-house and stablesThe building is classicist. In 1830 Fryderyk Chopin stayed there on his way to France. Now building of the Polish Mail. 

 ZiOOlek Says:  The Tawn Hall is a classicist building. It was built in 1828 according to a design by Bonifacy Witkowski but was modernised a few times. The room upstairs decorated with frescoes by Lamparski and pictures of Sienkiewicz, Laski, Staszic, Kosciuszko and Kazimierz the Great.... 

 ZiOOlek Says:  According to the inscription under the gallery, the church was there in 1100. In 1433 it was given a dignity of the collegiate church. In the middle of the 15th century it was established the collegiate church the cathedral, and during the Pope's visit in 1999 the church... 

 ZiOOlek Says:  There is an old and a new market square - so be carefull. There is a basilica in a heart of the square, two monuments and some interesting buildings: in the northern part so-called Primate Gate from the 17th century and in the southern part the Cebrowskis' tenement-house. 

 evaanna Says:  The Museum in Lowicz occupies the building of a former 17th/18th century seminary, largely rebuilt after war damage. It consists of four permanent exhibitions plus the Open-air Folk Museum at Maurzyce 7 km away. The ground floor houses the exhibition of baroque art in... 

 evaanna Says:  The Basilica, dedicated to the Assumption of the BVM and to St Nicholas rises high above the Old Market Square. You can climb one of its towers for a great view of the town, the river and the fields beyond it. Lowicz belonged to the archbishops of Gniezno from the 12th to... 

 evaanna Says:  The amazing baroque facade of the Piarists' Church would be hard to miss as it rises right across the street from the Basilica. The Piarists, whose motto is 'Pietas et Litterae' (Piety and Learning) came to Lowicz from Hungary in 1668 and ran a college here with an excellent... 

 evaanna Says:  On our first trip to the area we stopped at Lowicz for the second time that day on our way back from Leczyca. We hardly knew the town then but we pulled in when we saw a procession in front of what looked like an interesting old church. As it later turned out it was the... 

 evaanna Says:  Most of the handicrafts presented at the museum are perhaps not as popular nowadays as they were in the past but they are by no means dead. If you visit the museum on a summer weekend you will be able to watch the artists at work. We very much enjoyed a demonstration of... 

 evaanna Says:  This open-air part of the Museum of Lowicz, for which you must get a separate ticket, consists of a beautiful 18th century cottage and a 19th century farm with painted walls and wooden fences with pots drying on them, a display of traditional vehicles from a cart to a... 

 evaanna Says:  This exhibition presents the folk arts and crafts of the area starting with the characteristic colourful striped or embroidered men's and women's clothes, some still worn on special occasions nowadays. And if clothes then also the weaver's shop where the cloth for these... 

 evaanna Says:  The first floor of the museum houses a collection of objects connected with the history of the Lowicz region and of the whole country. Here you will find some archaeological exhibits, coffin portraits of Lowicz burghers of the 17th and 18th centuries, interesting tiles,... 

 evaanna Says:  Walk from Stary Rynek ( the Old Market Square) down Zdunska St, which has always been the main street of the town. Before WWII it used to be inhabited by the local Jews, who made up a quarter of the town's population. Sadly, there are no traces left of the synagogue, which... 

 evaanna Says:  Sromow is a tiny village about 11 km east of Lowicz. The signposts on the E30 from Warsaw will show you the way to Muzeum Rzezby Ludowej, that is a museum of folk sculpture. But it is not an ordinary museum. Owned by the Brzozowski family, who are also the authors of all the...