Attractions and Places To See around gmina Żarnów - Top 14

It is better to arrive from Stobnica, because from the east you have to cross a long section of forest sand.

You can test your skills and cross the rope bridge to the other side of the Pilica River... with your bike.

Crossing this structure by bike can make your legs shake. There is a ford nearby - water up to your knees

It is true that you cannot enter the ruins because of the risk of collapse, but at least you can look at the traces of our history.

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.

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The parish is one of the oldest in the diocese, founded around 1191.

Church of St. Nicholas - Roman Catholic parish church belonging to the Żarnów deanery of the Radom diocese. Church before 1913 The first mention of the temple comes from 1191. Originally, it was a Romanesque, single-nave building, expanded in 1503 (a late Gothic presbytery was added at that time). After a fire in 1893, the church was expanded according to the design of Stefan Szyller. The original temple is currently the transverse nave of the current one. Partially preserved fragments of walls and Romanesque and Gothic details. To this day, the western bay of the nave with the gallery, the round tower added to it, and fragments of the walls of the northern and southern naves added to the presbytery have survived. The side walls of the nave are decorated with Romanesque pilasters (including two decorated with acanthus leaf and fantastic animal motifs). There is a Romanesque window in the northern wall. On the stone walls of the older part of the building, inscriptions dedicated to people who renovated the church are scratched into the stone. They include the inscription "Matki Skórko 1595". The interior of the church features, among other things, a spiral stone staircase, three pointed arch windows in the Gothic style with tracery. The presbytery was built on a rectangular plan and is covered with three bays of a star vault[2].