Lublin is a city of inspiration. It owes its unique atmosphere to its exceptional geographical location. Each day in our city, we set enormous store by its development. We present and highlight cultural and historical diversity of Lublin. We reveal to the tourists the beauty of nooks and corners of the city. It is worth to get to know Lublin by wandering its streets on your own. Inviting you to the journey, I give you this guidebook on five tourist trails of Lublin. It will lead you to the most important attractions of our city and let you visit interesting places situated nearby the trail stops. This guidebook is woven with enriching, innovative threads such as tastes, legends, references to literature and business products. I hope that it will be helpful to both tourists and citizens of Lublin who wish to get to know the city better and to spend here unforgettable moments. Yours faithfully, Mayor of the City of Lublin Krzysztof Żuk The Trail of Famous Lubliners The Trail of Famous Lubliners is a path that leads to the places asso- ciated with life and work of many people who significantly marked their presence in Lublin. They were either natives of the city or those whose fate led them to become associated with Lublin. These people represent different faiths, nations and cultures. For most of them, Lublin was a source of inspiration in their artistic, scientific or patri- otic activities. Their life stories are embedded within the city’s history because it is people who have been shaping the city and its character throughout the centuries. To You I sing, Lublin by Franciszka Arnstein (excerpt) To You I sing, Lublin, sited on two hills, to you, venerable stones, witnesses of a bygone glory, proudly towering majestic mossy heads into the sky, though the crown of gleams and scruples was heedlessly torn off from you (...) Franciszka Arnstein The Trail of Famous Lubliners. of Famous The Trail hours. 2,5 - 3,5 Duration: Maps of the publication show walking trails. GPS coordinates: 51.250594 N, 22.571507 E – 9 Zamkowa Street GPS coordinates: 51.25111 N, 22.570767 E – the Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy) The Lublin Castle The place associated with the life and activities of the Seer of Lublin The Lublin Castle is one of the most emblem- bring any effects, therefore at the beginning atic monuments of the city and valuable rep- of the 19th c. the castle was demolished. In On the now defunct Szeroka Street at num- grave at the Old Jewish Cemetery (see: Stop 4 2. resentation of Romanesque art in Poland. Its the early 19th c., an English Gothic Revival ber 28, Jacob Isaac ha-Levi Horowitz (1745– of the Heritage Trail of the Lublin Jews) has top STOP 1. STOP history dates back to the 13th c. and is asso- style prison, recognized today as the Lublin S 1815), also known as the Seer of Lublin and been visited by Jews from around the world. ciated with many historical figures. The now Castle, was built on the Castle Hill. The build- Lubliner, once resided. He was believed to The Jewish Quarter and the whole Szeroka defunct castle—of which only its oldest part, ing served as a prison for 128 years. Within have had a gift of clairvoyance, reading the Street with the Seer of Lublin’s house was the donjon tower, has been preserved—was that time, the castle became a symbol of past and predicting future. He was one of demolished by the Nazis. built by the Polish king Casimir the Great. The repression and the place of execution of tens the most important tzadikim of his time and castle was the residence of Polish royalty who of thousands of Poles. Since 1957, the building a co-founder of the Hasidic movement in the used to stay here on their travels between has housed the Lublin Museum. There is a legend associated with Lubliner’s Kingdom of Poland. The house where he lived Cracow and Vilnius. It was particularly popular settlement in Wieniawa: “Jacob Horowitz was in the Podzamcze district, became a destina- born in the village of Józefów Biłgorajski. He with the Jagiellonians. Up to this day, we can The prison on the Lublin Castle Hill was built as tion of Hasid pilgrimages from all quarters of rebelled against his family and went on mi- admire stunning Russo-Byzantine frescoes a result of a criminal law reform, very innovative the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. gration among the Hasidic courts, in order to commissioned by King Ladislaus II Jagiello for its time. The reform was an attempt to The Seer of Lublin was one of the most im- gain education. He became a disciple of the that adorn the walls of the Gothic Chapel of abolish corporal punishment (including death famous Elimelech of Lizhensk who discovered portant authorities among the Jewish com- the Holy Trinity. The castle is also related with penalty) to be replaced by penalties aimed at his remarkable skill of clairvoyance. After he improving offenders’ behavior and re-integrat- munity and had many disciples. Till today, his the name of the chronicler Jan Długosz who walked away from his master, he set up with ing them with the society, especially through his followers a manor house in Łańcut. The tutored the sons of King Casimir IV Jagiellon community service. legend says that soon ‘heaven ordered him’ here. In 1569, the castle was the venue of the to leave this place as well and go to Wieniawa parliamentary session chaired by Sigismund II (a suburb of Lublin). This message was sent Augustus that led to the signing of the Union by an angel to a simple but pious man. Jacob of Lublin. During the Swedish Deluge, the Isaac would not want to believe him at first, and only once the sky repeated this command castle hosted John II Casimir Vasa. Numerous for the third time, he realized that this was the military operations of that time caused seri- will of higher powers, and obediently moved to ous destruction of the castle which gradually Wieniawa.” (Meir Balaban, The Jewry of Lublin) fell into disrepair. Major attempts to overhaul taken during the first half of the 18th c. did not 8 Next stop - The place associated with the life and activities of the Seer of Lublin – walking distance: 100 m Next stop - Lodgings of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski – walking distance: 300 m 9 GPS coordinates: 51.249238 N, 22.569174 E – 24 Grodzka Street GPS coordinates: 51.248702 N, 22.568672 E Lodgings of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski The birthplace of Wincenty Pol at 7 Grodzka Street The old burgher house where Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Wincenty Ferreriusz Pol was born in 1807 in mountains. In 1849, he was appointed pro- lived in 1826–1827 can be recognized by a distinc- Kraszewski included a description of Lublin Lublin at 7 Grodzka Street and lived there fessor of Universal, Physical and Comparative 3. tive graffiti portrait of the writer on its façade. 4. in his novel Maleparta: “I suppose you know Kraszewski, the most prolific author in the history until his family moved out in 1812. He was not Geography at the Jagiellonian University in top top S Lublin? Who would not know it nowadays, S of Polish literature, lived in Lublin while studying a Pole by origin, but became a great Polish Cracow, where he held the Chair of Geography, and who would not recollect its graceful land- at the Lublin Voivodship School. The city of Lublin patriot. He participated in the November the first one in Poland and the second in the scapes, old churches, two picturesque old gates, became a setting for a number of his historical novels a clean Capuchin church, a dismal parish church, Uprising and was awarded the Order of Virtuti world (after Berlin’s one). including The Prodigal Son and Bajbuza, God’s Wrath. a gloomy Dominican one, the disgustingly ren- Militari for his military merits. He is known for The motifs of Lublin are also found in Kraszewski’s ovated walls of the Jesuits’ and the castle? You his literary work, especially Romantic poetry novels of manners, such as Last of the Siekierzyński know it, as it is today: quiet, clean, refreshing Wincenty Pol’s Manor House Family, Walery, Four Weddings, and Morituri. and prose inspired by the works of Johann itself like an old-looking elderly man who puts Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, (13 Kalinowszczyzna Street) on a new wig and shaves his white beard to The classicist 18th-century mansion purchased make himself look younger; you know it with George G. Byron, Adam Mickiewicz and oth- once by Wincenty Pol’s father was sold after its new edifices, with the beautiful Krakowskie ers. He gained acclamation for his Song of Our the Pols moved out of Lublin. In 1860, Lubliners Przedmieście, with its clean squares, gardens, Land, a poetic description of Polish lands that decided to re-buy it and give as a gift to the pavements and high road. But you do not know fostered the Polish society’s interest in the poet in recognition of his patriotic stance. Today, the Lublin of the Tribunal Court, that old town local environment and culture. He was also the manor houses the biographical museum of of revolts and fairs, famous for its wine cellars a geographer and a great amateur of Polish Wincenty Pol which displays numerous personal at Winiary, Nuremberg shops, muddy streets, belongings of the poet and original furniture soldiers’ clamor, lawyers with a pen behind an of the time including a noteworthy fireplace.