Easy hikes and walks around gmina gmina Tolkmicko

The Franciscan Monastery (Klasztor Braci Mniejszych Franciszkanów) is a historic monastery above Kadyny, featuring tranquil courtyards and Gothic-Baroque brick architecture. Here you can experience the culture, history, and contemplative atmosphere of the Franciscan community. A short walk from the village makes the monastery an ideal stop for photos or a peaceful break during your tour.

Quite a demanding climb by bike from Kadyny.

The Franciscan monastery - above Cadinen - was built in the first half of the 18th century and has only partially survived. After the monastery was closed in 1826, the buildings fell into disrepair and some had to be demolished. The monastery church and a side wing have been preserved.

The "Jan Bazynski Oak" - the thickest and oldest oak in Poland. It is said to be over 700 years old.

The pedunculate oak is estimated to be 700 years old, making it one of the oldest trees in Poland. But not only their age but also their extent is interesting. With a circumference of 10m, it is considered the thickest oak in Poland.

This stretch of beach is right on the route of the Green Velo.

The age of the Bażyński oak is estimated at 700 years, but for 100 years there was a ground hollow, which during the times of Birkner of Elbląg housed 11 soldiers. The name of the oak was changed several times. A hundred years ago it was called the 1000-year-old German Oak. From 1898 it was called the royal oak; at that time, the last German Emperor Wilhelm II was the owner of the property in Kadyny. At the emperor's order, a gatehouse was built, in which a uniformed guard took care of the safety of the tree. In the shade of an oak tree during this period, among others, the emperor with Empress Augusta Victoria, their grandson Ferdinand with the Russian princess Kira and the most distinguished guests from all over Europe. After the Second World War, the oak was called the Kadyny Oak. The six 300-350-year-old oaks growing in a row next to them symbolized the six sons of Princess Kadyna, the wonderful beauty of the town's founder, from the ruler of these lands, Widewut. Later, called the "Oak of the Rebirth of Poland", it finally took the name of the local national hero Jan Bażyński, the former owner of Kadyny. Jan was a knight and politician, thanks to whom large areas of Prussia were attached to the Crown during the reign of Kazimierz Jagiellończyk. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%85b_Ba%C5%BCy%C5%84skiego

Franciscan monastery complex in Kadyny - the Franciscan monastery complex built in 1745–1799, on a hill in Kadyny, in the place of an old Prussian town of the Pomezan tribe. In 1682, the owner of Kadyny was Jan Teodor Schlieben - the province governor of Livonia and one of the leaders of the anti-elective opposition in Ducal Prussia. The follower of Lutheranism became a zealous Catholic under the influence of the Jesuits from Reszel, which led him to actively support the Catholic Church. Even before 1682, he began building a chapel in honor of St. Anthony of Padua and living quarters for monks, on the site of a medieval castle, on a hill overlooking Kadyny. He then asked Father Erazm Maron, the provincial of the Greater Poland Province of the Bernardines, to take care of this place. Schlieben planned to build a church and a Loreto House in the village. The settlement of the Bernardines was to result, in the founder's intention, in converting Protestants in the vicinity of Gdańsk and Elbląg. Schlieben gave the monks not only a place to build a church and a monastery, but also four Prussian acres of land, a meadow, farm animals (two horses and two oxen) and two carts. He resigned from charging fees for logging trees in the forest and for catching fish. His son also supported the Franciscans by giving them land. After the partitions of Poland, the areas around Elbląg were incorporated into Prussia. It was then that the monastery began to decline, and its final end and closure took place on April 6, 1826, when the last three monks were transferred to other monasteries. The monastery buildings were partially demolished, and those that remained deteriorated more and more until they fell into complete ruin. The first chapel at the site of the future church was wooden. Even a small fire could lead to its complete destruction, so the monks tried to erect brick buildings. The cornerstone for the construction of the temple was consecrated by the suffragan of Warmia, bishop Franciszek Kurdwanowski. The construction of the church began in 1716 and lasted until 1727. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zesp%C3%B3%C5%82_klasztorny_Franciszkan%C3%B3w_w_Kadynach