The best gravel rides around Stąporków

The ponds in the Browary district in Końskie are now a popular place for walks and relaxation. The renovated reservoirs, fed by clean streams, are surrounded by well-kept greenery, and the area has gained new recreational functions. You can walk here, fish, light a bonfire or take part in cultural events, such as KGW tournaments or Kupala Night. There are paved paths around them. It is worth remembering that swimming in the ponds is not allowed.

Only 1.5 km up to Heaven.

There are a few benches on the shore of the lake, it is worth resting here.

The chapel was founded (according to the inscription on the plinth) to commemorate the 1904 jubilee.

A stone cross from 1819, on the Końskie - Wąsosz road. The chapel is called the Greiner Cross from the inscribed sentence: "The founder, being the Forester, Francisek Greiner and his wife Franciska, ask for Hail Mary Anna 1819". The forester's lodge standing nearby bears the same name.

As part of the cyclical campaign "Łączą nas drzewa" (Trees Connect Us), just outside Końskie in the Wąsosz forest district, a forest was planted to commemorate the figure of the Polish Pope John Paul II. The campaign was organized by the Barycz Forest District under the watchful eye of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Radom.

In 1782, castellan Jacek Jezierski of the Nowina coat of arms purchased the Maleniec estate, located near Końskie in the Old Polish Basin, from Prażmowski for half a million złoty. There were rich deposits of iron ore on their territory, while in neighboring Miedzierza a blast furnace was already in operation at that time. Jezierski intended to develop industrial production on the purchased estate, linking his plans to the project of the Four-Year Sejm, which passed a resolution to increase the size of the Polish army to 100,000. In 1784, the castellan dammed the waters of the Czarna River flowing through Maleniec and created a pond with an area of 16 ha that exists to this day. The water was to be a source of energy for the planned plants and workshops. With the help of water outlets, it later became - thanks to water wheels - a source of energy for the mill, sawmill and fryery built by Jezierski. In neighboring Kawęczyn, the castellan also built a blast furnace. Production activity in Maleniec was interrupted in 1794 due to military operations during the Kościuszko Uprising. In 1824, the property was acquired by a former officer of Napoleon's army, Tadeusz Bocheński, who settled in Maleniec, introducing a number of innovations in local factories and significantly expanding production potential. The current building of the preserved plant, housing the museum, was erected around 1837 on the initiative of Bocheński, who additionally built a puddling shop and a rolling mill in neighboring Ruda Maleniecka. On June 21, 1967, the complex was officially recognized as a technical monument and entered under item number 340 in the register of monuments of the then Kielce province. A year later, a group of students from the Faculty of Metallurgy of the Silesian University of Technology became interested in the abandoned facility. Their activities led to the signing of an agreement in 1970, under which the plant was transferred to the care of the university. Actions were initiated to save the facility, which included preparing documentation of the facility, repairing parts of the machines and equipment, and buildings.

“Piekielny szlak” is a nearly 225 km long tourist route connecting Piekło and Niebo - two towns located in the Końskie commune. The trail leads through the areas of the following counties: Końskie, Skarżysko and Opoczno, nine of which are members of the “Local Action Group U - ŹRÓDEŁ” Association and shows the most interesting tourist attractions of this area: reserves and nature monuments, museums of technology and places related to foundry, as well as religious monuments and places of rest and recreation. The route of the trail includes, among others: Skałki Piekło, Gagaty Sołtykowskie, Świnia Góra Reserve, Piekło Dalejowskie Reserve, Brama Piekielna, Górna Krasna, Sielpia, Maleniec, Kuźnica and Piekło Szkuckie. The characteristic names and legends related to individual places have made supernatural powers the main theme of this route.