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Courtyards, palace grounds and museum visits, with access details and photographs from our travels.
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Poland · Parks & gardens · Castles & palaces
We like giving Zatonie’s palace park time for its ruins and wooded paths. Plan a visit near Zielona Góra and browse photographs across the seasons.
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Poland · Castles & palaces · History
Wawel gives us reasons to pause between the courtyard and the river. Explore our April photographs and plan the castle exhibitions you want to see.
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Germany · Castles & palaces · Parks & gardens
Explore Bad Muskau’s New Castle with our photographs, its owners, wartime destruction and rebuilding, plus official information for the park and exhibitions.
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Poland · Castles & palaces · History
Explore Żagań’s Ducal Palace through our photographs, its Wallenstein, Lobkowicz and Duchess Dorota history, with notes for the park and current visiting.
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Poland · Museums · Castles & palaces
Visit Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace on Kraków’s Kanonicza Street, with our courtyard photographs, the palace’s origins and National Museum collections.
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Poland · Parks & gardens · Castles & palaces
Explore Manor Park in Iłowa through our photographs, with the palace’s origins, Hochberg’s Japanese garden and practical notes for a park visit.
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Poland · History · Castles & palaces
See Kraków’s Bishops’ Palace in our photographs, with the residence’s historical changes, John Paul II’s connection and current limits on interior access.
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Poland · Castles & palaces · History
Explore Bojadła Palace through our façade photographs, with its eighteenth-century rebuilding, Kottwitz owners, later uses and practical conservation access notes.
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Poland · Castles & palaces · History
Explore Puget Palace in our Kraków exterior photographs, with its nineteenth-century construction, later family history and practical limits on interior access.
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Poland · Castles & palaces · History
See the lakes from Łagów’s Knights Hospitaller Castle in our gallery, with its medieval ownership, later changes and notes for a tower and shoreline visit.
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