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Route overview
The folklore of the Duchy of Lowicz in a single day — Lowicz with its pasiaki striped costumes and the Corpus Christi procession, and the Maurzyce Open-Air Museum of the Mazovian Countryside with cottages from the 18th-19th centuries. Standard plan: 9:30 hotel pickup, 11:00 arrival at Lowicz (90 km from Warsaw, A2 + road 14), tour of the Cathedral Basilica (17th-century, Baroque, the Tarnowski Chapel with Renaissance tombstones of the Gniezno archbishops, the 1781 organ), 11:45 the Lowicz Museum housed in the former Piarist building (the Lowicz pasiaki — Poland's most famous regional costume, wycinanki paper-cuts, painted cottages, the Old Parsonage), 12:30 lunch at "Lowicz Resort" (regional Mazovian cuisine — pierogi, Lowicz cabbage with mushrooms), 14:00 transfer to Maurzyce (8 km, 15 min), tour of the Maurzyce Skansen (60 hectares, original 18th-19th century cottages moved from the Duchy of Lowicz, smithy, windmill, wooden church, the Lowicz Passion — folk sculpture), 16:00-16:30 return to Warsaw. A special date: Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity, moveable May-June) — the most famous Corpus Christi procession in Poland, flower carpets, residents in pasiaki costumes, advance booking of a viewing spot recommended. Pricing EUR 480 Mercedes E-Class, EUR 580 V-Class. The service runs 24/7 with flight tracking if pickup is at WAW Chopin.