Puszczykowo

The Arkady Fiedler Travel Museum

definitely the greatest attraction in Puszczykowo. The famous polish writer, reporter and traveller used to live in this house from 1946 when he had come back from emigration in the UK till his death in 1985. The museum was opened in 1974. Exhibition covers photos from his travels, exhibits from exotic cultures, musical instruments from Asia, Africa and Oceania, ceremonial masks, sculptures, weapons and even trophies made of human heads. There's a s well a big butterfly collection, tropical insect collection and aquaries with piranies.

Besides - books of Arkady Fiedler translated into more than 20 languages. Outside the main building : copies of the most famous sculptures of the world The Sun-Gate in Bolivia, Moai statues from the Eastern Island, the miniature 1:23 of the Piramide of Cheops and the copy 1:1 of one of the mots famous ships : Santa Maria of Cristopher Columbus. The museum places in writer's house in 1, Słowackiego str, Phone : +48 61 813 37 94. In summer it's opened Tue-Sun 9:00-18:00, in winter : Tue-Sun 10:00-15:00. More : (http://www.fiedler.pl)

As well, visiting Puszczykowo, pay attention to :

a brick house with big woodenporch - Cienista str.

the City Office building - former hunters' palace from the beginnings of XXth cent. - 4, Podlesna str.

a villa from the beginnings of XXth cent with a balcony standing on 4 columns - 94, Poznanska str.

timber-framed house with a pigeon-house - Klonowa str.

mansion houses in 10, 12 and 26, Sobieskiego str.

brick and timber-framed houses in 7, 11 and 21, Ratajskiego str.

pension "Rusałka" from the turn of XIXth and XXth cent - in the forrest on the Warta River bank

the neo-baroque church from 1923.

tourist trails in the vicinity

There are several pedestrian tourist trails in the vicinity of Puszczykowo and accross Greater Poland National Park, many of them can be used as well by cyclists or in winter by cross-country skiers :

marked with red signs : Osowa Gora - Skrzynka Lake - Goreckie Lake - Jeziory - so called Forrestmen's Stone - Puszczykowko railway station - Niwka - Rogalinek - Rogalin - Daszewice.

marked with blue signs : Mosina - Mosina Pozegowo - Osowa Gora - Goreckie Lake - Gorka - Lodz - Witobel - Steszew - Mirosławki - Otusz railway station.

marked with yellow signs : Puszczykowo railway station - Jaroslawiec - so called Forrestmen's Stone - Puszczykowko railway station.

marked with green sings : Steszew railway station - Wypalanki - Mogily - Rosnowko - Jaroslawiec - Hill 125 - Szreniawa.

marked with black signs : Dymaczewo Stare - Lodz - Trzebaw - Rosnowko.

marked with green signs bearing the name of Arkady Fiedler : Puszczykowo railway station - cemetary with the writer's grave on the way you're passing by The Fiedler Museum.