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📍 Region · Lublin Province

Roztocze — rolling hills, limestone and beech woods on the Polish-Ukrainian border.

A band of rolling hills between the Lublin Upland and the Sandomierz Basin — Roztocze National Park with its beech woods and its herd of Polish primitive horses, the church on the water at Zwierzyniec, the cascades of the Tanew at Susiec and the white quarries of Józefów.

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About the region

What to know before you go

Roztocze is a band of rolling hills running from north-west to south-east between the Lublin Upland and the Sandomierz Basin, reaching as far as Lviv. The region is built of limestone and opoka, covered in beech and fir woods and cut by deep river valleys.

Its heart is Roztocze National Park, with its headquarters at Zwierzyniec — it protects some 84 km² of forest, including Carpathian beechwoods and firs. The park runs a unique breeding centre for the Polish primitive horse at Florianka, where the descendants of the tarpan live under reserve conditions.

Roztocze is also a borderland cultural landscape: the masonry church on the water at Zwierzyniec, the Marian sanctuary at Krasnobród, the little town of Szczebrzeszyn with its synagogue and landscape park, and the white limestone quarries around Józefów, which earned the area the nickname of the „Roztocze Sahara”.

A natural attraction of national importance is the Tanew cascades in the „Nad Tanwią” reserve near Susiec — waterfalls over rock steps, among the finest in lowland Poland. The bases for exploring Roztocze are Zwierzyniec, Krasnobród, Susiec and Józefów; the approach is through Zamość.

Sights

Places you should not miss

The most important sights of the region, each with its own guide — how to get there, when to go, practical info.

The Church on the Water at Zwierzyniec

The masonry Baroque church of St John of Nepomuk of the 18th century, on an island in the middle of a pond at Zwierzyniec — an icon of Roztocze.

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Bukowa Góra in Roztocze National Park

The highest hill in Roztocze National Park (310 m a.s.l.) with a viewing terrace, reached by a nature trail from Zwierzyniec.

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Florianka — the Polish primitive horse centre

The Polish primitive horse breeding centre in Roztocze National Park, a former forester's lodge — the only place in Poland where the horses live under reserve conditions.

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The Echo ponds at Zwierzyniec

A group of eight former fish ponds of the 1930s on the river Świerszcz at Zwierzyniec; one of them is a bathing spot.

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Szczebrzeszyn — the town of the beetle

A town on the edge of Roztocze known for the Polish tongue-twister „W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie” — the Beetle monument, a synagogue and the Szczebrzeszyn Landscape Park.

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Krasnobród — the Marian sanctuary

A spa town in Roztocze with the Baroque sanctuary of the Visitation of Our Lady, holy springs and the Krasnobród reservoir.

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Józefów — the Babia Dolina quarry

An old quarry of white Roztocze limestone near Józefów, a popular film location — the area is known as the „Roztocze Sahara”.

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Susiec — the Tanew cascades

Waterfalls on the river Tanew in the „Nad Tanwią” reserve near Susiec — among the finest river steps in lowland Poland.

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Places to stay

Where to stay in Roztocze — 189 properties

Hotels, guest houses, holiday centres, cottages and apartments in the Roztocze region and around it — each with links to the sights nearby. Direct contact with the property.

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