The trail runs through the Kozłowiecki Landscape Park and the adjacent area. The vast forest complex is accompanied by mid forest meadows, ponds, marshes, and small farm settlements. The trail encompasses areas of great natural interest, minimally transformed by people.
The trail features the Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka – the best-preserved magnate residence in Poland.
Most of the route has a paved surface, but if you wish to reach it by following the yellow connecting trail from the Garbów trail, you need to have an all-terrain bicycle suitable for riding on dirt roads.
You can reach the blue trail of Kamionka County by following the yellow connecting trail from the Garbów black northern trail. You turn right following the yellow trail markers in the village of Meszno. You proceed straight on until the end of the connecting trail (which is 7.31 km long), and then enter the blue trail, which after another 3 km takes you directly to the gate of the Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka.
At first, you ride on the mid field sandy road and pass by a cross standing near two mountain ash trees. Then, riding on the uneven dirt road running by the edge of the forest, you pass by a small metal cross (at 1.29 km). At the road fork near the entrance to the forest (at 2.07 km) you proceed straight on (into the forest), and after about 700 m you ride out from among the trees and turn right at the crossroads. About 500 m later, you pass a magnificent solitary oak tree on the right (at 3.26 km). The road turns left behind the oak, near the splendid lime tree, but you ride straight on, toward another lime tree (at 3.38 km). You pass by another two lime trees: the first one features a brown cross (at 3.47 km), and the second one – two roadside shrines (at 3.73 km). The larger of the shrines is made of field stones, while the smaller wooden one is placed on the metal base. From this point, you can see the roof of the Chapel of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Syry, built in the years 1981–83, in the distance on the left.
You continue straight ahead on the field road at the next crossroads (at 3.89 km), and then you pass by two solitary horse chestnuts on the left (at 4 km). After several hundred metres, the field road turns into a gravel road, and soon, you enter the asphalt road in the village of Syry (at 4.58 km). You pass by a cross on the left. According to the signposts located behind the cross, in this section the yellow trail overlaps with the hiking PTTK Blue Partisan Trail (which is about 77 km long and runs through the following places: Rąblów – Zawada – Łopatki – Markuszów – Samoklęski – Kozłówka – Skrobów – Lubartów – Serniki – Ostrów Lubelski).
You go straight on through the village and then cross Route 809 (at 5.05 km). At the intersection on the left stands a magnificent monument commemorating the victorious partisan battle fought in the nearby forests on May 12, 1944 against the SS Wiking Division. The road becomes a gravel road behind the intersection. You cross the small bridge (at 5.27 km) and pass by the signpost saying that if you turn right, you will reach the Samoklęski Fish Farm.
The Samoklęski Fish Farm has at its disposal fishponds of the total area of about 300 ha and it owns one of the largest thermophile fish hatcheries in Poland. This modern fish farm bases fish farming exclusively on natural feed. In recognition of the production quality, the Association of Fish Manufacturers awarded the owners of the fishponds, the European Carp Certificate of Highest Quality. Two fishponds are available for the angling enthusiasts.
You cross another small bridge (at 5.63 km), passing by larger and smaller fishponds. The road runs through the poplar lane (at 5.75 km) with a creek flowing parallel to the road. The creek turns right at the next intersection (at 6.01 km), and you continue straight on. Riding on the alley of horse chestnuts, lime and oak trees, you reach the end of the yellow trail (at 7.31 km), which joins the blue trail.
You begin the ride along the Kaminka County Loop Trail in the direction of Kozłówka (ca. 3 km). Proceeding straight ahead all the time on the field road, you cross the intersection featuring a solitary birch tree (at 0.59 km). You can already see ahead of you in the distance the domes of the palace. You ride between the willow trees (at 0.95 km) and after about 800 m you cross another intersection (at 1.73 km). Behind the intersection the field road enters a lime tree alley, where a black metal cross is placed (at 2.45 km). The roof of the palace – which is now very close – is visible ahead of you behind the old lime tree. You continue straight on, pass by a magnificent lime tree on the right, and then cross the highway between Kamionka and Kozłówka (at 2.95 km). Riding on the lane planted with trees, you reach the main gate of the Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka.
The Palace was established around 1742 for the Bieliński family and designed by Józef Fontana. In 1799 it became the property of the Zamoyski family. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the building underwent extensive renovation at the request of Konstanty Zamoyski, who contributed to the palace’s contemporary form and furnishing. In the time of its glory (the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century), the palace served as the centre of the Kozłówka fee tail estate.
The interiors feature the authentic design in the style of the Second French Empire, dating back to the time of the golden age of the Kozłówka Palace. The core of the collection consists of mobile furnishings, which constitute Poland’s only collection of the 19th-century portraits, painting and sculpture reproductions, furniture, frames, mirrors, curtain rails, caparisons, curtains and candlesticks. The museum also boasts rich collections of porcelain, glass, silver, fabrics and other handicraft items. The palace library boasts 7,300 volumes, including 620 old prints, while the archival collection features over 5,000 letters and documents. Furthermore, almost 1,900 historical photographs and 1,500 piano rolls with classical music for the pianola and the organola have also been preserved.
The park-palace complex also features the palace chapel erected in the years 1903–09. Its creators modelled the chapel on the Royal Chapel in Versailles, copying the stuccowork, colonnade, the altar and the organ casing.
The building of the former coach house serves as the only Gallery of Social Realist Art in Poland, which presents the art exhibits dating from the first half of the 1950s. The entire collection boasts about 1,600 sculptures, paintings, drawings, graphics and posters.
The former farm buildings of team horse stables were reconstructed, turned into a coach house and open to public. The space of the former theatre house is now used for temporary thematic exhibitions.
The palace, together with the adjacent buildings, is surrounded by a perfectly preserved and well-maintained park. The tree stand consists above all of lindens and maple trees, but there also is a large number of oaks, and one of them, growing on the courtyard, is a monument of nature. Other trees that can be encountered in the park include pines, spruces, horse chestnuts, hornbeams, poplars, birches and exceptionally magnificent elms. The garden stretches on the east side. Its main element is the parlour with symmetrically formed ground levels, surrounded by circlets of boxwood and roses. A fountain with charming figures of cherubs is directly adjacent to the palace. The northern edge of the park features a pheasant coop house, and a rosarium captivating with scents is located nearby. The mid forest clearing has a picnic area with a grill and benches for banqueting, and a playground for the youngest visitors to Kozłówka lies slightly further away. A hand minted souvenir medal, the Kozłówka Ducat, is a unique token of remembrance from the palace.
The museum is open between April 1 and November 30. More details can be found at the website www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl.
Having left the palace, you turn left and head in the direction of the village of Kozłówka (at 3 km). You turn right behind the brick building of Gościniec Kozłowiecki (at 3.42 km). A moment later you pass by a picturesque pond with a bridge over it on the left. After about 1 km you turn right toward Dąbrówka (at 4.55 km). At the intersection, on the left you can see a splendid roadside chapel dedicated to the memory of six residents of Kozłówka, murdered in 1942 in the Nazi German concentration camp in Pustków near Dębica. On the right, behind the wooden fence of the estate located at the intersection, you can see a traditional root cellar with a semi-circular roof. Continuing the ride, after about 1.3 km you pass by a pretty wooden house with an interesting wooden-stone gate on the right (at 5.88 km). You ride straight on at the intersection (at 6.24 km), leaving behind on the right a small wooden roadside shrine. You pass by the Village Water Intake in Kozłówka, the recently modernized local water supply station, about 400 m later on the left. You leave Kozłówka (at 6.94 km) and pass by a tennis court hidden among the trees (at 7.09 km). You exit the forest (at 8.6 km) and reach Dąbrówka (at 8.86 km), located within the borders of the Kozłowiecki Landscape Park.
Kozłowiecki Landscape Park was established in 1990, as one of the links of the Ecological System of Protected Areas in Lublin Voivodeship. The park was designated to protect the largest forest complex in the vicinity of Lublin, which features a series of natural elements that resemble the natural environment. The park area is dominated by mixed forest and mixed woods, in addition, smaller areas of the park feature dry and moist forests, swamp forests, as well as alder forests and riparian forests growing in the stream valleys. Especially noteworthy in the ground cover of the Kozłowiecki Forests are rare species, such as Western Oakfern Mezereons, Martagon Lilies, European Columbines, ivies, Australian Sweetgrasses, Upright Bugles, Bastard Balms, Yellow Meadow Rue and Shining Meadow Rues, Isopyrum thalictroides, Anthericum ramosum, Kashubian Buttercups and Woolly Buttercups, Scouring Rushes, and in the orchid family: the Common Twayblades, Bird’s nest Orchids and Lesser Butterfly Orchids. Many species of peat bog, meadow and aquatic plants are also featured here. In the park, you can encounter the rare Black Storks or Lesser Spotted Eagles. The winged fauna is also represented by the Hoopoes, Great Grey Shrikes, Common Kestrels, Rollers, Black and White-backed Woodpeckers, as well as Collared Flycatchers and European Pied Flycatchers, among others. The waterfowl includes Hen Harriers, Black-necked Grebes, Corn Crakes, Water Rails and Bearded Reedlings. The Kozłowiecki Landscape Park is also a habitat of ungulates, as large numbers of moose (Eurasian elk), deer, fallow deer, roe-deer and wild boar. Furthermore, you can also encounter in the park a European pond turtle, which becomes rarer and rarer in Poland.
In the village of Dąbrówka you pass by two new wooden houses on the left, and then turn left at the crossroads (at 9.06 km), staying on the asphalt road. You turn right behind the forester’s lodge also located on the left (at 9.39 km). 200 m later you pass by a wooden cross with a large rock placed at its foot and you cross the small bridge. You can see from here a small pond with a little bench next to it, on the right. You reach the crossroads (at 9.54 km), featuring a roadside shrine and a convenience store. According to the signposts, the red connecting trail to Niemce County joins the blue trail from the left. The signpost located at the intersection points to the same direction and to the “Stróżek” Farm School.
You leave Dąbrówka (at 9.82 km), then you pass by a wooden cross on the right (at 9.88 km) and cross the bridge on the Minia River (at 10.37 km). You can see anglers or people enjoying a picnic or a barbecue at the riverside. Soon, you reach the village of Wólka Krasienińska (at 10.55 km), and then head straight on in the direction of Starościn (at 11.14 km). You pass by a rest area for cyclists on the left, and then pass by the birch coppice with a black metal cross in front of it (at 11.61 km) and you leave Wólka Krasienińska (at 11.86 km). About 400 m later on the right you pass by a stork’s nest on the pole and a cross (at 12.44 km), and in the distance you can see a large slagheap made as a result of earthworks carried out in the nearby sand mine. After another 500 m you pass by a small cross with mirabelle plum trees growing next to it (at 12.93 km), and behind the milk depot (at 13.21 km) you pass by a nice log cabin and another wooden cross. You continue the ride along the edge of the pine forest, and after 1 km you turn right into the forest (at 14.47 km). After about 500 m on the mid forest sometimes muddy road, you exit the forest straight onto the reeds surrounding you from all sides (at 15.05 km). You can see anglers fishing in the nearby fishponds behind the white and blue small bridge with the visible floodgate mechanism (at 15.16 km). This is a sign that you enter the area of the Fish Farm in Samoklęski. You pass by two large maple trees on the left (at 15.61 km) and go straight on through the field crossroads (at 15.86 km). You pass by another cross on the right, cross the gravel road (at 16.89 km) and continue straight on. After 200 m you arrive at the starting point of the ride along the blue trail (at 17.07 km).
Following the yellow connecting trail, you can return from here to the black trail around Garbów County in the village of Meszno and reach Garbów or Markuszów. You make a right turn at the intersection, where the black trail is joined by the yellow connecting trail, and then proceed straight ahead on the asphalt road meandering among the buildings. You reach the forest, turn tight, and after 200 m you make a left turn. You pass by a forest road and about 1 km later you pass by the forester’s lodge of the Forest Inspectorate in Wola Przybysławska. You enter the asphalt road again. You pass by the reeds on the left and at the next crossroads, you continue straight on in the direction of Wola Przybysławska, passing by a stork’s nest and a small cross standing on the other side of the road. The black trail joins the blue trail at the local elementary school.
The blue trail that is 13.2 km long runs near two picturesque lakes: Rejowiec and Duży Ług Lakes. The bird watching lovers will find here a large number of bird species, such as the Corn Crakes, Thrush Nightingales, Marsh Warblers, Red-backed Shrikes, Black-tailed Godwits, Common Redshanks, Common Rosefinches, Northern Lapwings, Eurasian Coots, Mallards, Grebes, Common Moorhens, Tufted Ducks, Common Pochards, Eurasian Teals, and White Storks. Near the lakes, you can encounter beavers, and if you are lucky, also a moose. The local forests feature the Common Buzzards, Buntings, Woodlarks, Wood Warblers, Eurasian Blackcaps, Tree Pipits, Eurasian Jays, Common Blackbirds and Song Thrushes. From a natural point of view of nature, especially noteworthy, in addition to large numbers of Corn Crakes are the Black-tailed Godwits and Common Redshanks. These species are extremely sensitive to environmental changes and their presence testifies the unique natural assets of the areas of their nesting sites.
The trail continues through the villages of Wólka Kątna and Bobowiska until Markuszów. In the village of Bobowiska, you can turn right onto the red connecting trail (that is 7.09 km long), which will take you through Kłoda to Kurów to the green trail between Klementowice and Strzyżewice.
Kozłowiecki Landscape Park was established in 1990, as one of the links of the Ecological System of Protected Areas in Lublin Voivodeship. The park was designated to protect the largest...
The blue trail that is 13.2 km long runs near two picturesque lakes: Rejowiec and Duży Ług Lakes, and then it leads through the villages of Wólka Kątna and Bobowiska until Markuszów...
The Samoklęski Fish Farm has at its disposal fishponds of the total area of about 300 ha and it owns one of the largest thermophile fish hatcheries in Poland. This modern fish farm bases fish...
The blue trail that is 13.2 km long runs near two picturesque lakes: Rejowiec and Duży Ług Lakes. The bird watching lovers will find here a large number of bird species, such as the Corn...
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