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Castle Oporow

Description: Castle Museum / Oporow / Tel: +(48-24) 285 91 22 / Fax 285 91 80 / The Gothic castle of Oporow (15th c.) is one of a ... more

Castle Oporow ... few castles in Poland that survived in their original form. Raised on an artificial island, it is surrounded by a moat and a fine landscape park (19th c.). It houses a museum of interior decorations with art collections from different epochs (16th-19th cc.). At one end of the village stands a monastic complex from the 15th century.

Newest Review: ... C outside and getting out of the air conditioned car is like walking into an oven, as the occasional car passes on the road a cloud of hot dust is raised. Through the iron gates and you could be entering a different world. Of course the atmosphere is still almost unbearably hot but the dust and decrepitude is left behind. You have entered an oasis of calm and shade from the midday sun, there ... more

... are large leafy trees overhead, a small lake to one side and a moated "castle" to your left. The inverted commas are there due to this not exactly looking like the typical castle, English or otherwise. Amusingly to the right of the castle is ...more

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Castle Oporow: AN UNUSUAL OASIS IN A CULTURAL DESERT (1876 words)
by - written on 25/01/06 (Very useful, 132 readings)
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For those of you reading and dreaming about travel plans for the coming year, here is a place that I'm almost sure that you will not have even heard of, Oporow. Certainly prior to visiting some friends of my wife, who live about 20 minutes away, in July 2005 neither had I! And indeed, why on earth would you have taken any notice of a place that you are unlikely to find on anything but a Polish published map. There will not be detailed instructions on how to get there, frankly if it were not for Kasia (my wife's friend) giving us directions, we would not have found the place at all. You will need wheels of some sort to get here though as it is well off of any ... Read the complete review