PIĄTKOWA In this village dating back to MEDYKA This place is mostly known for the 15th century, the St. Demetrius the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing. It wooden Greek Catholic church from dates back to the 14th century. 1732 has survived, regarded to be one of A frequent visitor to Medyka was king PRZEMYŚL the most attractive churches in the Władysław Jagiełło. From the 19th Podkarpacie region. In Piątkowa there is century, up to the Second World War, also a brick and stone church built the owners of the Medyka estate were before the Second World War. Like other a renowned Pawlikowski family, who villages in the Przemyśl Plateau, assembled in their mansion an impressi- What to see around Przemyśl Piątkowa used to have many more ve collection of art and national residents at that time than today. heritage. The Pawlikowskis also ran a model farm with a gardening school. Of the old Pawlikowski estate not BIRCZA A former town whose origins much has survived; only the 19th-c. house surrounded by ponds and a scenic go back to the 15th century. Until 1876 it park. In Medyka it is also worth seeing a wooden parish church from 1607. was even the capital of a separate administrative unit called powiat. Bircza LESZNO This place in the past used to has preserved the Humnicki family bear the name of Poździacz. Here one palace from the 1st half of the 19th can see a wooden Greek Catholic church century, which underwent a not-too-- of 1737, utilized for several decades now fortunate conversion in the 2nd half of as a Roman Catholic church. the 20th century. On the hill over the market square there is an early-20th-c. church, and right next to it a nature monument – a magnicent several-hundred-years old oak tree. The vicinity of Bircza is famous for abundance of virgin nature. One can see here ancient r and beech forests (including the „Krępak” reserve) with plenty of species of fauna and ora. FREDROPOL An old town founded in KRZECZKOWSKI MUR It is a rockslide the 17th century in the area of the revealing geological strata of the Kormanice village by Andrzej Maksymi- Carpathian ysch west of the Krzeczko- lian Fredro. In 1672 in Kormanice the wa village. The easiest way to get there townspeople of Przemyśl beat a Tartar is by road. From Przemyśl go towards army camp, releasing many hostages. Sanok, past Olszany turn to Krzeczkowa. The old buildings of Fredropol have not When the village buildings end, follow deed time, but the ruins of the Fredro the road to the crossroads in the forest. family castle in Kormanice have From there, follow the signs of the blue survived. One can see them after tourist route leading towards Dynów. obtaining permission from the present owner of the land. PRAŁKOWCE A place near Przemyśl which existed already back in the 15th ŚREDNIA On the peak of the forested century. In the local 19th-c. church, hill over the village of Średnia there is former Greek Catholic church, there is the oldest in Poland burial mound of the the famous image of Mother of God of Corded Ware culture. The small mound, Zbarazh. Painted on copper plate, the where archaeological excavations picture for over 300 years until the revealed some burial places, is almost 5 Second World War was kept in the 000 years old. Archaeologists claim Bernardine church in Zbarazh (now therefore that it is older than the famous Ukraine), where king John III Sobieski Cheops pyramid. The best way to get used to pray before it. On the hill over there: having passed the last buildings Prałkowce there is one of the main forts of the outer ring of the Fortress of of Średnia turn left into a dirt road (the Przemyśl – artillery fort VII „Prałkowce” from 1882-1886. green route from Przemyśl to Dynów runs along it). The mound is one kilometre away on the right-hand side. POSADA RYBOTYCKA The 15th-c. St. KOPYSTAŃKA The highest mountain of Onuphrius Orthodox church built of the Przemyśl Plateau (541 m above sea brick. It is the oldest Orthodox church in level). From its peak, crowned with a Poland. In the past there was a small metal cross, there is a breathtaking monastery next to it. Inside the church panorama of the Przemyśl Plateau and the 16th-c. Byzantine polychromy has the mountain group called Góry survived. Abandoned after 1945, the Sanocko-Turczańskie. The best access to church is now a part of the Przemyśl the peak is along a dirt road from branch of the National Museum. If you Rybotycze following the signs of the want to go inside, contact someone in yellow route, or from Brylińce following the next-door house. The River Wiar which ows nearby is a natural border the red route through Kopyśno. between the region of Pogórze Przemyskie (the Przemyśl Plateau) in the Western Carpathians and the small mountain group called Góry Sanocko -Turczańskie, which belongs to the Eastern Carpathians. Urząd Miejski w Przemyślu - Wydział Promocji www.przemysl.pl Rynek 1, 37-700 Przemyśl, www.przemysl.pl free copy BOLESTRASZYCE In the area of the old KRZYWCZA Now a village, once a town estate of the Michałowski family in dating back to the 14th century. Bolestraszyce there is the largest arbore- Krzywcza used to be the seat of one of tum in south-eastern Poland. Taking the oldest Roman-Catholic parishes in a stroll along the paths and ponds the region. The present church, built visitors will see thousands of plant after 1625, was converted in the 18th species (often very rare) from all over century in the Baroque style. The belfry the world. In the preserved manor was also added then. Near the church house and the surrounding park the there still stands a manor house (which eminent artist Piotr Michałowski created now houses a health centre) with the his works. Near the arboretum there is remains of a 17th-c. defensive embank- an important feature of the Fortress of Przemyśl – the ruins of the armoured ment. At the main road from Przemyśl there is a desolate 19th-c. Greek UKRAINE fort XIII „San Rideau” of 1892-1896. Be careful! Walking around the fort can be Catholic church. Krzywcza has also retained some old wooden houses. dangerous. SIEDLISKA Fort I „Salis-Soglio” in Siedliska was built between 1882 and BABICE Once a town, dating back to 1886. It is an unusual example of an the 15th century. At the road to Dubiec- POLAND artillery fort, which, despite having been ko there is the brick-and-stone blown up on 22 March 1915 is one of the late-18th-c. Holy Trinity church with best-preserved and most attractive a Baroque interior. The square at the features of the outer ring of the Fortress main road from Przemyśl once used to of Przemyśl. In the area of the fort the serve as the town’s market square. Only following items have survived: a brick a few 19th-c. houses have remained of KRASICZYN The famous castle of the entrance gate, barracks in the gorge the original development; unfortunate- Krasicki family from the early 17th part with casemates, ammunition stores ly the wooden townhall has not stood century, one of the most valuable and lift shafts, artillery emplacements and shelters for the crew on the the test of time. On the hill over the monuments in Poland, called „a gem of rampart. The fort is situated only several dozen metres from the Ukrainian River San, at the road to Bachów, there is a desolate wooden Greek Catholic Polish Renaissance”. Next to the castle border. On its other side there are still six auxiliary forts of the described church from 1839, which stands in the place of the original church. Babice there is an 18th-c. parish church. On the complex. When visiting Fort I „Salis-Soglio” it is also worth seeing the nearby has also retained the 19th-c. complex of the Dembiński family’s estate other side of the road to Sanok one can (on the way to Medyka) armoured fort XV „Borek” from 1897-1900. Both forts buildings with a scenic park. see the buildings of the old brewery of (like all the main forts of the outer ring of the Fortress) are part of the black the Sapieha family (the last owners of tourist route and the fortress cycle route. DUBIECKO A former town of 15th-c. the castle) and the magnicent park origin. In the past the village of Dubiec- that surrounds the castle. On the hill ko belonged to the noble families of over Krasiczyn (above a small Jewish cemetery) in the forest one can see KUŃKOWCE Fort VIII „Łętownia”. Kmita, Stadnicki, Krasicki and Konarski. some bunkers of the Molotov Line. On the hill opposite there are three It dates back to the years 1854-1855, In the 1st half of the 16th century mounds built, as legend has it, by the people from the old town of Krasiczyn, when the Austrians built one of their a castle was built here, surrounded with to commemorate the visit of King Sigismund III Vasa. artillery earthworks on a hill west of a towered wall. In 1735 the castle saw Przemyśl. The fort obtained its present the birth of Ignacy Krasicki, who was to shape between 1881and 1882. The area become a bishop and a Polish „prince of of the fort is well-developed. During the poets”, the most distinguished author of KALWARIA PACŁAWSKA Founded in season one can see an interesting the 18th century on a hill over the valley the Polish Enlightment era. At the end of exhibition inside devoted to the Fortress the 18th century in the place of the original castle the mansion which still of the River Wiar by Andrzej Maksymi- of Przemyśl. How to get to the fort: from lian Fredro, governor of Podolia and exists was built. Before visiting the mansion and the surrounding park one the Przemyśl-Dynów road turn right in needs to obtain the present owner’s permission. Dubiecko has also castellan of Lviv, who brought here the Kuńkowce and go up the road following the signs of the black fortress route. Franciscan friars. The sanctuary in preserved a Roman Catholic and a Greek Catholic church from the 1st half of From the district called Lipowica (where the routes cross) turn left and follow the 20th century. The Greek Catholic church, abandoned after the Second Kalwaria since 1679 has housed the the black fortress route to the peak and then downhill towards the fort. miraculous image of Mother of God World War, now houses Kresowy Dom Sztuki (the Art Centre of the Polish from Kamianets Podilskyi. For three Eastern Frontier). centuries tens of thousands of pilgrims have been coming here every year in ŻURAWICA Fort XII „Werner”. BACHÓRZEC It dates back to the 14th mid-August for the church fairs famous in the whole region. Kalwaria Pacław- Constructed in 1882 - 1886 as a one-em- century. Bachórzec used to belong to ska has earned itself the name of the Jasna Góra of the Podkarpackie provin- bankment artillery fort. It is one of the several famous noble families, like the ce. The present Baroque church and adjacent monastery were founded by best preserved forts of the Przemyśl Kmitas, Stadnickis, Wapowskis, and in Fortress, which is why it was used as a Szczepan Dwernicki between 1770 and 1775. Next to the sanctuary stand the end the Krasicki family, in whose distinctive arcaded houses from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. On military ammunition dump over several the hill sloping towards the valley of the Wiar there are forty-two 19th-c. decades. Since recently, the fort has had hands it remained until 1944. The ruins roadside shrines (some of them on the other side of the river) linked by paths a private owner and has been made of the Krasickis’ estate complex have where one can see groups of pilgrims. available to fortress lovers and tourists. survived with the older 18th-c. annexe You can see here, e.g.: well-preserved converted in the 20th c. and the newer barracks, a building holding an ammu- nition dump and an inrmary, lateral fortications with bunkers on an estate manor of 1808. The oldest monument in Bachórzec is St. Catherine artillery embankment and underground tunnels leading to the caponiers in wooden parish church built between 1760 and 1763. www.przemysl.pl the moat.

Text: Dariusz Hop Photos: Grzegorz Karnas, Dariusz Hop