Piechowice: Hotels and accommodations
Accommodation in Piechowice
The 37-kilometre-long bicycle route B runs through Piechowice along the Dziemiany–Dywan–Sominy–Trzebuń–Raduń–Jastrzębie–Piechowice–Dziemiany circular route. For your stay in Piechowice, you would like to book a hotel.
Cycling
Route B passes through pine forests with occasional clearings and meadows; in summer, the air is scented with resin, while in autumn the heather is in bloom.
Route B also passes the then-planned “Lipno i Lipionko” nature reserve. It comprises two overgrowing lakes with adjacent peat bogs and wet meadows.
A group of seven stately junipers is mentioned along the route; it is about 100 years old. The largest juniper in this group is approximately 9 metres high.
Nature
The “Jałowce nad jeziorem Lipno” natural monument comprises seven common junipers (Juniperus communis) measuring 4 to 6 metres in height in the Piechowice area.
The protected Scots pine “Sosna na Czajkowie” stands in Piechowice; it is recorded as measuring 16 metres in height with a trunk circumference of 361 centimetres.
Piechowice lies wholly or partly within Wdzydze Landscape Park.
Culture
Within Wdzydze Landscape Park, Piechowice is one of the villages of outstanding cultural value. In Wdzydze Landscape Park, the beginnings of historical settlement from the late 13th century onward are associated with the development of Piechowice.
Today, Piechowice is considered a picturesque, compact settlement complex around the shores of Lake Gogolino. The oldest built-up part of Piechowice developed in a gentle depression on the eastern shore of Lake Gogolino.
The monument to Alojzy Bruski commemorates an officer who, among other distinctions, was awarded the Virtuti Militari Order and the Krzyż Walecznych. The Chapel of Saints Joachim and Anne in Piechowice was built in the 1980s.
In Dziemiany stands a replica of a 19th-century Kashubian house that originally stood in Piechowice and served as the Rolbiecki family’s home; the original was moved to the Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze Kiszewskie.
In connection with Wdzydze Landscape Park, Piechowice is assigned to the ethnographic region of Southern Kashubia.
Other places: Grabowo Koscierskie, Schodno, Nowy Barkoczyn, Piątkowo, Dywan, Dziemiany, Szenajda and Grabówko.
To the higher-level travel overview: Berent.
