'''W?growiec''' (pronounced Vongrovyets) is a city in Greater Poland.

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

Get in

By air

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

By train

W?growiec has a very convenient, but ? due to infrastructure ? not very fast connection with Pozna?, calling at Skoki, Murowana Go?lina, nearby Puszcza Zielonka forrest. There are 8 to 10 trains daily (depending on the day) ? with air conditioning low-floored diesel units. W?growiec 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.

By bus

In the region of W?growiec buses have (apart from the line to Pozna?) more importance than trains. Regular buses run to :
  • Bydgoszcz : up to 5 daily
  • Gniezno : up to 12 daily
  • ?ekno (the remnants of the Polish oldest Cistersian monastery) ? over 25 daily
  • Pi?a - do 7 daily
  • Pozna? - up 18 daily (the journey may take a long time, especially due to traffic in Pozna? itself)
  • Rogo?no - a change for trains going to Pozna? or northwards Ko?obrzeg (Kolberg) at the Baltic Sea is possible ? up to 8 daily
  • Tarnowo Pa?uckie (the Polish oldest wooeden church) ? over 20 daily
  • By car

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

    Get around

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

    See

    W?growiec 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 Pozna?) ? the person, who made the first Bible translation in polish. One can find Wujek_fs monument in fromt of the church ? it_fs 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 Pa?uki (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 W?growiec : We?na 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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    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 W?growec web-site (in English) : [http://www.wagrowiec.um.gov.pl/en]

    Get out

    It_fs a good idea to spend one night in W?growiec and visit as well at least some of the surroundings :
  • Popowo Ko?cielne ? a wooden church from 1629, rebuilt one century later, nearby : a lime-tree with a circumference of 450 cms.
  • Tarnowo Pa?uckie ? 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.