Local history and culture Poland

Entering Guciów Farm is like taking a trip back in time. In an idyllic setting, in the middle of the countryside, this charming old farmhouse consists of wooden buildings from the 18th century, in the traditional style of the region, with thatched roofs. There is an ethnographic museum with traditional tools of the region, minerals and fossils. One of the buildings has been converted into a tavern where you can taste traditional Polish home cooking, which is simply exquisite and prepared in the old-fashioned way on the stove. The farm also offers old-fashioned guest rooms (170 zl per double room, including breakfast), with a shared fireplace and bathroom, or it is possible to rent an independent house. The hosts also offer various activities: mineral searches, excursions in the surroundings, concerts, musical activities, parties. In the village, there are many activities: weaving workshops and artisanal pottery workshops where each time the participants have the possibility to make their own masterpiece that they can take home as a souvenir; butter and artisanal bread workshops (especially for children). In short, it's a bit of a Disneyland for kids and adults alike and a magical place not to be missed if you're not afraid of the language barrier: indeed, for the moment the park doesn't attract enough tourists to justify speaking English.

The Kashubian Ethnographic Park is located 70 km from Gdańsk and is easily reached by bus. This park-museum, also known as the Kashubian park-museum, is Poland's oldest open-air museum. It boasts an extraordinary collection of some forty buildings dating from the ^18th to the early ^20th century, spread over 22 hectares of lush vegetation on the edge of a large lake. It's the ideal place to familiarize yourself with local Kashubian culture.