Ostoja Dwa Jeziora is an excellent base for enthusiasts of sightseeing and photography. The surrounding areas captivate not only with wild Masurian nature but also hide many interesting places with rich history, architecture, and attractions for whole families. We invite you to explore the proposed sightseeing directions.
Direction Węgorzewo
Węgorzewo Town – a small but charming town, an extremely atmospheric place located in the northern part of the Great Masurian Lakes Trail, where you can shop, sightsee, and enjoy a rich offer of local restaurants and pubs. Węgorzewo also offers several interesting places worth seeing:
Folk Culture Museum – collections gathered for almost forty years are presented in permanent and temporary exhibitions. The purpose of many tools is hard to guess. Who today remembers what a gremplarnia, flail, or kantary were used for? The museum operates a pottery workshop where everyone can see that even amateurs can make pots. The open-air museum is slowly expanding. On the shore of the Węgorapa River, three 19th-century buildings have already been erected: a half-timbered smithy, a porch cottage, and a wooden fire station. The museum also organizes many events reaching beyond the region and even the country. Particularly popular is the August International Folklore Fair.
Teutonic Castle in Węgorzewo – is the oldest monument of the town. Today it is hard to guess that the plastered and yellow-painted building in the city center, with rectangular windows and a red gable roof, is a Teutonic castle. It was built by the Order in Gothic style on a pentagonal plan enclosing a courtyard and had a tower. Until the second half of the 15th century, it housed the Teutonic administration, later it became private property. After the wooden castle was burned down by Lithuanians in 1365, the Teutonic knights built this one in 1398. It was rebuilt many times, including as a court and prison. On January 24, 1945, the interior was completely burned down by the Red Army, but the 14th-century walls remained. In the 1970s-80s, it was restored to serve as a city library, the seat of the City Council, and the Civil Registry Office.
Pyramid in Rapa – The tomb of the Farenheit family. The purpose of building this tomb-pyramid was to create conditions conducive to the mummification of the body. Researchers discovered that this is a place like no other in the area, with a great concentration of positive energy radiation from the Earth and Cosmos;
Ściborki – amid dense forests and gentle hills lies the Ściborska Republic, one of the most remote and rarely visited parts of Masuria near the Borecka Forest. In the center of the settlement stands a two-hundred-year-old wooden house, and nearby two exotically looking villages were created: Running Wolf – Eskimos and Indians, an ecological settlement depicting how the indigenous inhabitants of America lived and how important life in harmony with nature was to them. Several dozen malamutes and huskies are bred in the settlement. Low Greenland sledges and decorative dog harnesses remind us that dogs are the closest companions of the Eskimos.
Banie Mazurskie – During World War II, the village was partially destroyed. After 1945, it was mainly settled by forcibly relocated Ukrainian population. Besides religious buildings, Banie has several houses from the early 20th century
