About this route
Route overview
Brunary Wyzne is a Lemko village on the Biala river in the Beskid Niski whose Church of Saint Michael Archangel was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2013 alongside the wooden tserkvas of the Polish and Ukrainian Carpathians. The shrine was raised around 1797, a three-part western-Lemko type with three tented domes over the sanctuary, nave and babynets, log walls of fir and a characteristic post-and-frame bell tower above the babynets. The interior holds an 18th-century Baroque-Rococo iconostasis with royal doors and a full iconographic programme, an 1898 wall painting cycle, a side altar of the Pokrov and icons brought from a 17th-century predecessor church. After the 1947 Vistula Operation the shrine passed from Greek Catholic to Roman Catholic use — today it serves a Latin parish, yet the iconostasis remains in its complete original programme. 200 km via the A4 motorway to Tarnow, then DK28 to Gorlice and DK77 to Brunary — 3 h - 3 h 15 min off-peak. The service operates 24/7.