Sierpc and its surroundings
Sierpc is situated on Toruń – Warsaw route. Going from the side of Warsaw towards Sierpc, it is possible to establish the route of the whole-day journey, whose main points will be the following attractions: visiting Bieżuń, city of Sierpc and Drobin. Total length of route amounts to 300 km.
Warsaw - Bieżuń - Sierpc - Drobin
Bieżuń. First documented reference to the town dates back to 1406. At the end of the XVIII century the town belonged to Andrzej Zamoyski. After the II Polish Partition, Bieżuń was within the borders of Prussia. Nowadays Bieżuń’s main attraction is the museum located in the former hospital building. In the museum you can admire museum pieces showing the life of a small country town in the second half of the 19th century. Apart from that, there are museum pieces connected with medicine and doctors' work, dating back to the XIX/ XX century. Documents, photographs of the town with its residents from the old days are collected on the first floor. Souvenirs from National Uprising and all fronts of the Second World War.
The monastic complex of Benedictines monastery in Sierpc together with a church built in the XV century is worth seeing. The Church is the sanctuary of the Virgin Mary of Sierpc. Like Virgin Mary of Skępsk, the figure of Madonna of Sierpc is famous to the present day for its miracles. Moreover, the Parish Church (from the XV century) and XVI century’s church under the invocation of Holy Ghost are also worth seeing.
Tombstones of Kryscy family are situated in the parish Church on the route from Sierpc to Warsaw. They were probably made by the italian sculpture Luigi Gucci.
Toruń - Skempe - Sierpc
Toruń is the most willingly visited country in Poland. During your visit in this historic corner it is worth taking a walk down the old town surrounded with gothic and Renaissance tenement houses, visiting the Saint Johns' Cathedral or looking in the post-Franciscan church under the invocation of Saint Mary. While driving to Sierpc it is worth to take a sidetrack and go to the Skempe town, which is just 25 km away from Sierpc. The church and St. Bernard Monastery constructed in the XVII century are located in this town. The place is willingly visited by the pilgrims from the whole country because of the figure of Saint Mary of Skempsk famous for its miracles. Saint Mary of Skempsk is one of the most favourite subjects of folk sculptors from Mazovia and Dobrzyń borderland.