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Wągrowiec (pronounced Vongrovyets) is a city in Greater Poland.

A small town (26 thousand inhabitants) in north-east Greater Poland, appr. 60 km NE of Poznań at the banks of Wełna river and Durowskie Lake. The history of the city (and its surroundings) is inseparably connected with the past of the Cistersian Order in Poland.

[edit] Get in

[edit] By air

The closest aiport (Ławica) is in Poznań. If necessary you can use one of the few flights to Bydgoszcz.

[edit] By train

Wągrowiec has a very convenient, but – due to infrastructure – not very fast connection with Poznań, calling at Skoki, Murowana Goślina, nearby Puszcza Zielonka forrest. There are 8 to 10 trains daily (depending on the day) – with air conditioning low-floored diesel units. In 2010 the line Poznan-Wagrowiec will be repaired, afterwards the travel time will be shortened by 25-30 minutes, and the whole journey will take appr. 1 hour.

Wągrowiec has as well train links to small town of Golancz (20 km, 25 minutes) – 5 trains daily, but this line has very small importance for tourists (apart from maybe cyclers and anglers, as the line runs among lakes and forests.

[edit] By bus

In the region of Wągrowiec buses have (apart from the line to Poznań) more importance than trains. Regular buses run to :

• Bydgoszcz : up to 5 daily
• Gniezno : up to 12 daily
• Łekno (the remnants of the Polish oldest Cistersian monastery) – over 25 daily
• Piła - do 7 daily
• Poznań - up 18 daily (the journey may take a long time, especially due to traffic in Poznań itself)
• Rogoźno - a change for trains going to Poznań or northwards Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) at the Baltic Sea is possible – up to 8 daily
• Tarnowo Pałuckie (the Polish oldest wooeden church) – over 20 daily

[edit] By car

You can easily gat to Wągrowiec from surrounding cities using regional roads : 196 from Poznań, 190 from Gniezno, 241 from Bydgoszcz or 251 from the Żnin area (important for those, who want to combine a stay in Wągrowiec with a visit to Piast Route.

[edit] Get around

Wągrowiec itself is a small town, so all main attractions are accessible on foot. Wishing to visit Lekno or Tarnowo Pałuckie you have to use out-of-town PKS buses.

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Wągrowiec has several important high-class monuments :

• a lat gothic parish church from XVIth cent, built upon older, romanesque fundaments with three-aisle, hall interior. The most important person linked with this church is priest Jakub Wujek (a later rector of the Jesuit College in Poznań) – the person, who made the first Bible translation in polish. One can find Wujek’s monument in fromt of the church – it’s a reconstruction, the oruginal one was destroyed by Nazi Germans during WWII.
• the post-Cistersian church and monastery, existing in its present form since XVIIth cent, earlier monastery buldings have burnt in 1744. In the ingteriors : a precious altar with a baroque relief, nearby a high-school building, where in 1899 Stanislaw Przybyszewski (A famous polish poet of that epoque) took his final exams.
• A Regional Museum – in the so-called abbot-house, rebuilt after a fire in 1987, with historical and etnografical collection of Pałuki (a region on the borderland of Greater Poland and Kujawy), with a usual, but unique collection of match-etiqettes, coins and orders.
• a bifurcation – that means simply a river-crossing, of two small river flowing throughout Wągrowiec : Wełna i Nielba. The crossing is man-made,. The fisrt canal was built by Cistersian monks in the Middle Ages to improve the city defensive system. Later on – in 1880 – during meliorating works, a new cala leading southwards was dug foriming a crossing that way. An interesting thing is, that – despite of the artificial character of the crossing - only appr. 15% of waters of the two rivers mix, the rest flow in their own river-beds.

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• Sport and Recreation Centre OSiR in Wagrowiec, Phone : +48 67 262 24 81, [1]
• Rest Centre in Wagrowiec, Phone : +48 67 262 56 35, summer season only
• Rest Centre "Łodzianka" in Wagrowiec, Phone : +48 67 262 00 29, [2], opne from may till september
• Camping and Caravaning Site Jagitur Camp, 59, Kościuszki str., Phone : +48 503 017 100 or +48 67 262 77 43, [3], open 15th June - 31st Aug

[edit] Mid-range

• Hotel Jamajka, 129, Kcyńska str., Phone : +48 67 268 58 60, [4]
• Rest Centre Wielspin, Phone : +48 61 848 66 34 i 067 262 57 87, [5]

[edit] Splurge

• Hotel Pietrak, Phone : +48 67 262 86 07, http://www.pietrak.pl

[edit] Accomodation in the vicinity

• Hotel Marcel, Kobylec 136, 62-100 Wągrowiec, Phone : +48 67 262 11 07, [6]
• Holiday Centre "Adrian" in Skoki on the Budziszewskie Lake, Phone : +48 67 261 83 66
• Holiday Centre "Expans", in Roscinno, on the Budziszewskie Lake, Phone : +48 61 848 93 07, or +48 61 840 32 61
• Holiday Centre, 7, Wczasowa str., 62-085 Skoki, Phone : +48 67 812 48 81
• "Demar" Holiday Centre, 3, Zamkowa str., 62-085 Skoki, Phone : +48 61 892 56 01
• Youth Centre Antoniewo, Phone : +48 61 812 42 51, [7]
• Agritourism - Potulice 30, 62-100 Wągrowiec, Phone : +48 67 261 68 88
• Grylewo Palace, Grylewo 25, 62-100 Wągrowiec, Phone : +48 67 261 28 87 - a big palace from XVIIIth cent., an old park nearby, 2 hectares at the lake bank

[edit] Contact

For more information – ask in the City Office, 15a, Kosciuszki Str (close to the Train and Bus station), phone : +48 67 262 15 22 or visit the official Wągrowec web-site (in English) : [8]

[edit] Get out

It’s a good idea to spend one night in Wągrowiec and visit as well at least some of the surroundings :

• Popowo Kościelne – a wooden church from 1629, rebuilt one century later, nearby : a lime-tree with a circumference of 450 cms.
• Tarnowo Pałuckie – the oldest of the wooden churches in Poland (XIVth cent) and as well one of the most precious. In the interiors there are marvellous polichromies from the mid-XVIIth cent, covering all the walls; on the northern wall scene from the life of St. Margaret, on the southern one : of St. Nicolas (the patron of the church); in the presbitery : scenes from the New Testament.

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