It takes a bit of nagging to get there and get there, but walking through the linden avenue is delightful. I managed to visit the museum even before the renovation, as far as I know, in 2010 the work is expected to be completed. That is, it promises to be interesting....
25.03.2010At the beginning we have to walk along the magnificent linden avenue .Reaching the so-called Red Gate we can admire, standing on the slope of the palace designed for the writer by HugoKuder a built in 1900-1902. The surroundings of the building where the writer moved in 1902 were also taken care of. The park was designed by the well-known Warsaw gardener Franciszek Szanior. The house was given to Sienkiewicz along with his estate (over 270 hectares of land, 60 head, cattle, 6 horses, agricultural machinery) as a national gift in 1900 on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of literary work. It stands as it once did in an old park , amid orchards and forests, towering over the area with the silhouette of a round tower. It is crowned at the front with a characteristic stone hussar. Oblęgorek, contrary to the intentions of the donors, was for Sienkiewicz, who lived permanently in Warsaw, only a summer residence, where in moments of rest the writer gathered his closest family and friends. The residence of Oblęgorek's most famous owner has housed a museum since 1958, which was created thanks to a donation from the writer's children. Jadwiga Kornilowicz and Henryk Jozef Sienkiewicz, and is now visited en masse by tours, mainly by school children. They are attracted here by the name of the famous writer and the legend associated with the donation of the national gift and the house, which has preserved the atmosphere of the years 1902-1914. The merit here is not small of the creators of the museum.
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