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Truck

The village mentioned in 1349 r. The famous architect Jan Jakub Gay was born in Kamion (1801-49) – creator of projects, incl. a granary in Modlin and a paper mill in Konstancin-Jeziorna. Wooden belfry with 1 half. XIX w., built on …

Traces – Tulowice

A village on the floodplain terrace by the Vistula River, opposite Czerwińska. Mentioned in 1427 r. A monument commemorating the fallen on the flood embankment 18 September 1939 r. 252 soldiers of the Polish Army and 106 civilians. Nazis threatening death 108 civil hostages demanded from a group of defenders …

New Secymin

THE NEW SECYMIN [MtaTI In the village there is a parish church. pw. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Built in 1923 r. as an evangelical church. Wood, mullion-transom structure, ornate boarding, covered with a gable roof. from the east. hexagonal tower of the belfry. There is a decorative wooden roof over the entrance. …

Leoncin

LEONCIN

Village. The seat of the commune office. Birthplace of Isaac Bashevi-sa Singer (1904-91), Jewish prosaic writing in Yiddish, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 r., from 1935 r. in exile in the USA. Singer spent his childhood in Radzymin.

Parish Church. …

New Kazuń

A village in the Warsaw Basin, situated opposite the estuary of the Narew to the Vistula, between two bridges over the Vistula River.

Mentioned in 1252 r. as Kazom owned by a monastery. From the 16th century. royal village. During the Swedish invasion of 1656 r. building a rampart by the Swedes …

Order – Downhill

18 km to the south. zach. from the village, first by road 579, then, from Sowia Wola, a local road – Downhill. A village located in the center of the Kampinos National Park, near the Łasica canal, in the middle swamp belt of the Kampinos Forest. It took place in the nearby forests …

Czosnow

Village, seat of the commune office. Mentioned in the 11th century. W 2 half. 17th century, after the Swedish invasion, Stanisław Baryczka was the owner of the village (ok. 1615-82), Warsaw burgher, courtier of King Jan Kazimierz, participant of military expeditions against the Swedes and Cossacks, owner of an enormous fortune (real estate …

Palmiry wilderness

8 km to the south. zach. Palmiry wilderness in the Kampinos Forest, with the cemetery of war victims. In the interwar period, ammunition and supply warehouses for the defense of Warsaw and Modlin were located here. Warehouses with unused stocks were blown up by retirees …

Lomna

1 km to the north. east. Lomna. The village mentioned in 1155 r. as Łomny Wielkie – then the property of the regular canons from Czerwińska. From 1798 r. property of Antoni Trębicki, whose three sons fought in the Russian ranks against the November Uprising (one of them …

Kiełpin Priest

2 km to the east. from the road junction – Kiełpin Priest. In the village, in the cemetery: graves (mostly collective) Polish soldiers from the army "Poznań” and "Pomerania" who died in September 1939 r. (including the symbolic gen. brig. Mikołaj Boltuc), statue of 1962 r. …