Attractions and Places To See around gmina Głowno - Top 20

the park is open on weekends

After a wonderful bike ride, I reached the church in Pszczonów – a truly historic site, as it was the setting for the adaptation of Reymont's novel "Chłopi" (The Peasants). The interior of this church, rich in history – dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries, with numerous renovations and Baroque polychrome – gained a new dimension thanks to the film adaptation. In the 1972 film adaptation, directed by Jan Rybkowski, alongside excellent actors – Władysław Hańcza (Maciej Boryna), Ignacy Gogolewski (Antek Boryna), Emilia Krakowska (Jagna), Krystyna Królówna (Hanka) – residents of Lipce Reymontowskie, Pszczonów, and Słupia also appeared as extras. They brought costumes, props, interiors, and the dialect of bygone times – making the adaptation incredibly authentic and vivid. This is a story truly worth seeing, especially since "The Peasants" is not only one of the greatest Polish novels but also a work by Nobel laureate Reymont – full of rich literary and social context and a profound portrayal of the countryside. The film adaptation captures its spirit and the vibrant folk culture; it is a true tribute to national tradition and the life of the ancient countryside.

The Old Mill in Kołacin, also known as the Praga Mill, is a historic building from the 1920s, located on the Mroga River in the Łódź province. In the past, it used the power of the Mroga River, and the water accumulation created a pond that powered the mill wheels. The mill is part of the "Respite Trail", which includes the most attractive natural sites in the Łódź region. For road cyclists, there are asphalt routes in the area, but some sections may lead through roads with a poorer surface, so it is recommended to plan your route in advance. The mill is located about 250 meters from the main road, turning right by the primary school in Kołacin.

The church was built in the years 1717–1721. It was founded by Jan Pokrzywnicki – a canon of Gniezno, parish priest of Kraków and Łaków. It is a wooden building with a log construction, boarded. Its body was built on a rectangular plan and consists of three naves of the same height separated by four pairs of columns. The presbytery is narrower, closed polygonally. Next to it on the eastern side there is a rectangular brick sacristy, next to the body on the southern side there is a square porch. The interior is covered with flat ceilings, the choir is supported by two columns. The doorframes have a wavy lintel cutout. The church is covered with gable, shingle roofs, above the nave there is a turret with a bell tower. The building was consecrated on November 18, 1721 by Father Sebastian Kasprowicz, canon of Łęczyca and parish priest of Piątkowo, with the consent of the Archbishop of Gniezno, Stanisław Szembek.

Wooden water mill on the Mrożyca River located in Dąbrówka Mała in the Łódź province, built in 1948. In the 19th century, there was a fulling mill here and a neighboring mill powered by a water wheel. During World War I, the wheel was replaced by a water turbine and equipped with rollers and newer cleaning devices. The mill was dismantled by the Germans during World War II. The current mill was built in 1948 on the site of the former mill. The mill represents a post and beam construction. It is single-storey with a superstructure, boarded with planks. It has a gable roof covered with roofing felt. It was initially powered by a water turbine, and then (from 1957) by an electric motor. It was still in operation in the 1970s. Currently out of operation.

Mill in Kołacin – a wooden water-electric mill on the Mroga River built at the end of the 19th century. Water mills in this location were mentioned in documents from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The memory of a mill that existed in the 19th century has been preserved: a wooden, single-storey building on a rectangular plan, situated partly on water piles and partly on solid land, with a hipped roof covered with thatch. This building was demolished due to old age at the end of the 19th century. In the place of the demolished mill, the current mill was built at the end of the 19th century, which underwent several reconstructions, including being significantly raised. Currently, it is a wooden building of post and beam construction, boarded with planks, with a gable roof and an adjacent single-storey extension. Initially, it was powered by a water wheel and equipped with 2 pairs of French stones, a żubrownik, perlak and jagielnik. Before World War I, a water turbine was installed in the mill. The stones were replaced with rollers and the millet mill and the perlak were eliminated. During World War II, the mill was in operation. During the Polish People's Republic, it was privately owned. It was used as a grain mill, and then (from 1965) as a wood flour factory. In 2024, it is in operation as a grain mill.

In the mid-15th century, a fortified castle was probably built in Sobota on Tomasz's initiative. Based on it, in the mid-16th century, a brick defensive manor house was built, the shape of which blurred the original character of the stronghold. The founder of the new complex was one of two brothers: Tomasz or Brycjusz Sobocki. The first of them, the chamberlain of Łęczyca from 1542 and castellan of Gostyń from 1546, built a parish church in Sobota, the second in turn financed the Renaissance tombstones in it. It is not known what happened to the Sobota manor house - 150 years later it was referred to as a brick treasury, no longer serving residential purposes. The neo-Gothic palace was built on the foundations of the old building. The current manor house in Sobota was built on the initiative of August Zawisza in the second half of the 19th century. It is a single-storey building built of brick in the form of a castle. Above the main entrance there is an additional floor, which is crowned with a neo-Gothic battlement. An octagonal tower, also crowned with battlements, was added to the north. The building is situated on a small elevation, which is surrounded by a moat. The manor is located in a park, in which there are also farm and residential buildings. In 1890, the estate was acquired by Artur Stokowski and his wife. On their initiative, the palace was expanded in the interwar period. The next owners of Sobota were Wiktor and Bogna Przegaliński, who bought it in 1927 with the intention of opening a breeding farm for Anglo-Arabian horses there. After the end of World War II, the estate was divided into parcels. It was divided between the State Agricultural Farm and the State Stud Farm in Walewice. The palace was transformed into a multi-family residential building. During archaeological and architectural research conducted in 1985, the remains of a hexagonal tower measuring 4.5 m on a side, supported by corner buttresses in a Gothic brick layout, were identified in the walls of the neo-Gothic manor house. This is the only known remnant of the Gothic castle. The building is currently abandoned.

The parish in Pszczonów was probably established at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, certainly before 1366. From the records of the Gniezno Chapter we learn that the metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno, Jarosław Bogoria Skotnicki, having established the wójt in Pszczonów and having sold it in 1366 to a certain Tomasz, obliged him to pay the local priest a tithe according to the guidelines. In the 15th century, the metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub of Sienna, the primate of Poland (1474-1480), built a second church, dedicated to All Saints and St. Dorothy, virgin and martyr. The church in Pszczonów is known from the film adaptation of Reymont's "Chłopi" - it was there that Maciej Boryna and Jagna were married.