UNIQUENESS OF THE COUNTY

• an abundant investment offer with farreaching priorities,
• a great potential of natural and tourist advantages showed by the county,
• famous "CHMIELAKI KRASNOSTAWSKIE", i.e. the all-Polish holiday of hopgrowers and brewers,
• the Stud Farm of thoroughbred Arabian horses in Białka near Krasnystaw influencing the breeding in south-eastern Poland. Best breeders from the USA, Brazil, Germany, Australia, Italy and England dream of having horses from Białka in their stables,
• the only place in Europe where three routes (a river, a road, a railway line) cross, located within the county in Wólka Orłowska is also worth seeing,
• the Krasnystaw county offers numerous viewing points, hospitality and friendliness of its people,
• the unique in Poland centre of educational and rehabilitation for children and youth suffering from cerebal palsy and mantally handicapped established by the County Family Aid Centre in Krasnystaw, the laureate of the third edition of the contest League of County Initiatives,
• a very well developed system of Social Aid Centres.

PLACES WORTH SEEING

• The seat of the county inhabited by nearly 21,000 people. The town was founded according to Magdeburg rights in 1394 by king Władysław Jagiełło on premises of Szczekarzew village. Since the 15 th c. it was the seat of a municipal county. In 1490 - 1826 the seat of the Roman Catholic Chełm diocese.
• An old church and monastery of the Augustinian Order - at Kościuszki street: in the neighbourhood of a non - existent today castle. Founded by king Władysław Jagiełło in 1394 - 1434. The former Holy Trinity church - one-nave, converted without respecting style characteristics. The former monastery - of brick, of the three-route type, with barrel-cross vault. Used at present for educational purposes.
• The new Holy Trinity church and Augustinian monastery - at Okrzei street, erected in 1824 - 1839. The new Augustinian monastery - at present a presbytery.
• The Old Town complexm - tenement houses from the 18 th-19th c. surrounding a square-shaped town square with, e.g. Dom Sejmikowy (House of Local Parliament) built in 1928.
• St Franciszek Ksawery parish church a Baroque object erected in 1695-1717 according to a desing by Jan Delamars.
• A building of the Jesuit college - erected in 1708 - 1730 next to the church. At present it houses the Regional Museum.

• St Jan Nepomucent s church - ( end of the 18 th c.).
• A manor and park complex comprising a manor from the second half of the 17 th c., an annexue building, a kitchen, atillery, a brick gate and a park.
• The Menorial of January Insurgents - in the local cemetery.
• A manor and park complex in Siedliska I - with a manor from the first half of the 19 th c., annexe buildings, a stable, a di atillery, a mill and a landscape park.
• A manor complex in Suchodoły - with a manor from 1816, a granary and other farm buildings and remains of a landscape park.

• St Stanisław s church - dated to 1404.

• A manor complex with remains of a park , Izbica.
• Palace and park compexes in Tarnogóra, Stryjów and Orłów Murowany from the first half of the 19 th c.
• St Zofia s church in Tarnogóra - built in 1544 Krasnystaw (comunne).

• Ruins of the late - Renaissance castle from the end of the 16 th c.
• A manor founded in 1779 - 1782 by Mikołaj Rej.
• The Orthodox church, a coach house and a presbytery.

• "Arianka" - a brick tomb in the shape of a pyramid from the Ist half of the 17 th c., with an elevation on which the mausoleum of the famous parliamentary activist, Arian Paweł Orzechowski, is located.

• A complex of buildings of the Stud Farm with a manor from the 2nd half of the 19 th c., farm buildings and living quarters of farm hands and a 9,5 hectare park. The place offers a wide range of tourist attractions (horse-riding holidays , an indoor riding stable).

• A post windmill from the 2nd half of the 19 th c.

• An inn- of brick, from 1895, an example of Classicist provincial building style.
• The Roman Catholic church of St Peter and Paul- the for mer Uniate's Orthodox church biult in 1840-1857.

• A manor from the beginning of the 19 th c., surrounded by landscape park.
• The Renaissance church of St Stanisław the Bishop- originally the Calvanist house of prayer founded about 1577 by Mikołaj Siennicki; a Baroque belfry.
• The Orthodox church of the Virgin Mary of Good Care erected in the 2 nd half of the 19 th c. Inside, the preserved iconostas and furnishing from the 18 th. and 19 th c.
• A shrine from the beginning of the 19 th c. with a folk sculpture.

• A palace complex from the Ist half of the 19 th c., in rooms interesting polychromy by Italian painter Mikołaj Monti.
• The Church of the Virgin Manry's Birth and of St Luke the Evangelist- chronicled already in the 16 th c.; furnishings from the 18 th- 19 th c.; a cemetery wall with shrines from the turn of the 19 th c.

• Medieval grave-mounds- remains of a battle fought against Jaćwing tribes on fields of Łopiennik by Leszek Czarny.
• A mound raised in 1834-1835 at the road to commemorate completion of works on building yhe road from Lublin to Zamość, on the hillock- a stone post and a sundial.
• St Bartholomew's church- a Neo-Gothic church built in 1909-1912. It is located on the site of former churches: a wooden one from the 17 th c. and a brick one from 1827-1832.

• The Transfiguration church- erected in 1797-1799, designed by king Stanisław August's architect, Jakub Kubicki. A magnificent example of wooden architecture of great architectural qualities. Built of larch.

• A Classicist palace from the Ist half of the 19 th c., a two- storey house standing in a park.

• A fortifield settlement built in the west part of the hill, dated to the late Middle Ages.

• A manor built of stone and brick at the turn of the 19 th c.
• The parish church erected in 1840-1844, a gift of Jan Poletyłło. Neo- Gothic, of brick, one- nave. Inside, Rococo- style altars from the 18 th c. at the church a screen- type brick belfry from 1882 and four shrines with in the surrouding wall.
• An inn built of brick about 1830.
• A manor park- remains of a landscape park from the 19 th c. with magnificent old trees and alleys of horse chestnuts.

• St Michael the Archangel's church built of brick in 1806. Late- Baroque, interiors in the Neo-Gothic style, the tombstone of the founder, Katarzyna Boniecka Kwaśniewska. At the church, a belfry from 1804.

• St Wawrzyniec' church built of brick about 1770, beside, a late- Baroque balfry- gate from the end of the 18 th c.
• The Orthodox church of St Michael the Archangel- erected about 1865, transferred from Rogatowo in the county of Gorlice.
• Manor complexes in Żółkiewka, Dabie and Olchowiec.

• St Jan Nepomucen's chapel- of brick, from about 1788; a manor complex from the 1st half of the 19 th c.

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  The church of St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist- built of wood about 1742.