Day 4

We decided to stay in Zamosc another day because half a day was just not enough to explore the city and the nearby villages. We started in the morning and walked to the places we missed yesterday – the palace, the academy (3rd oldest university in Poland established by Jan Zamoyski in 1584), the cathedral and then the Jewish synagogue. Then we drove to a very picturesque small village of Gorecko Koscielne. It’s really tiny, probably 100 people or less, but it has a beautiful 18th century church, a chapel on the river Szum with a healing spring underneath, an art gallery and a great wooden inn. We also saw at least 30 priests congregated near the parish house. We are not sure if they all live there or are just visiting. From there with drove to the nearby Jozefow, a slightly bigger village whose main attraction was a view tower  overlooking an old quarry. Luckily, there was no entrance fee because the view was nothing special. Then to a little town of Krasnobrod. It received the town charter in 1572 or 1578, and because of its natural mineral springs, it is a spa town. However, we had a real problem finding the center of this town. We drove in one direction, saw a lot of houses, a beautiful baroque church, but nothing that looked like a town center. The tourist information sent us in the opposite direction. We drove back and forth a few times, but failed to find any place that resembled a town center. Finally, we asked some locals and they said there was no town center, just a few sad looking stores near a roundabout. There was, however, a manor house we wanted to see, and with some difficulty we did find it. It now houses a children’s sanatorium. Back in Zamosc, we decided to take a tour of the underground passages, which turned out to be not exactly what we expected – underground fortifications, but it was interesting (for Bo because it was only in Polish). Our pedometer said we walked almost 9 miles today.