Founded in the mid-1300s, later the town became renowned as a residence of its consecutive owners - families of Pilecki, Stadnicki, Lubomirski and Potocki

Łańcut

 

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Today in Łańcut you can admire the castle and park complex, also comprising 18 other buildings, such as stables, carriage house, outbuilding, orangery (currently winter garden). Featuring the large 33 hectare landscape park, the establishment ranks among the most impressive former aristocratic residences in Poland.  

 

Every year the castle hosts Łańcut Music Festival, an event known not only in Poland but also across the world.

 

 

Worth seeing:

Castle Museum

Synagogue from the second half of the 1700s

VIA REGIA

  • castle park

  • figure of St. John of Nepomuk from the 1700s

  • Historical Museum  of the Town and Region (previously Officers’ Mess)

  • building of Nicolaus Copernicus School, from 1897

  • bench of Jan and Stanisław Cetnarski (mayors of Łańcut)

  • parish church of  St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr

  • Dominican monastery complex, currently housing branch of the Polish Tourism and Sightseeing Association

 

 

Photo: Anna Kowalczyk