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| Tourist attractions, recreational facilities
At Derdy, an 18th-century park covering an area of 12.7 hectares. Protected by a preservation order, it contains a number of natural monuments, including three petiolar oaks.
At Janczewice, remains of a cemetery where German and Russian soldiers were buried after being killed in action in 1914.
At Jastrzębiec, the Institute of Animal Genetics and Husbandry, affiliated to the Polish Academy of Sciences. The institute is located in a park with an 18th-century brick manor house and early-19th-century farm buildings. The whole property is protected by a preservation order.
At Kosów, the Experimental Station of the Jastrzębiec-based Institute of Animal Genetics and Husbandry. Its premises include an 18th-century manor house and granary.
At Lesznowola, a manor house dating from the 2nd half of the 18th century, remains of the manor park, and a 1776 roadside chapel with a sculpture by Jan Nepomucen.
At Łazy, remains of an 18th-century manor park with two natural monuments (European ash trees). Łazy's landmark is a Polish Radio broadcasting station (335 m) built in 1931 by Marconi. It was the oldest facility of its kind in the world.
Magdalenka, the place of Lech Walesa's negotiations with Czesław Kiszczak in 1988-1989, prior to the historic "round table" talks. Most of the buildings are villas. The local woods contain a monument erected in memory of 223 local and Ravensbruck prisoners who were shot by a German firing squad in this very place. There is a plan to designate the area as a nature reserve.
At Mroków, a landscape park 4.1 hectares in area, with three natural monuments (petiolar oaks) and an 18th-century wooden manor house.
Nowa Iwiczna, established in 1801 as a German colony.
Stara Iwiczna, established in 1801 as a German colony. In 1843, an Evangelical Augsburg church was built in the village to be replaced in 1893 by the brick neo-Gothic church that stands here today. Next to the church is a 1850 Evangelical Augsburg cemetery with old tombs. In 1979, the church and its premises were bought by the Catholic Church.
Wilcza Góra (Wolf's Mountain) – Jazgarzewszczyzna – a cluster of archaeological sites dating from the late Stone Age, the early Bronze Age, and the early Iron Age.
Władysławów, a village set up in 1867, with four natural monuments (petiolar oaks).
Recreational facilities:
- forests (tourist paths)
- stud farms
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