Route III

Routes

Mragowo – Krutyn Sightseeing Route (approx. 60 km)

You start in Mragowo, then you go to:

• Piecki – the old Mazury Cottage from 1846 (opposite the Tourist Information office),

• Piersławek – Ernst Wiechert's birthplace,

• Krutyń – the Museum of the Mazury Landscape Park, the collection of about 200 exhibits.

Pictures by Robert Wróbel

You leave your car and go walking one of the paths proposed:

i) Zakret Reserve (3.5 km) – the distrophic pools, floating peat bog island and insectivore sundew.

Pictures by Beata Gida

ii) Krutynia Reserve (5 km) – it protects Krutynskie Lake and The Krutynia upstream. You meet the kingfisher, otter, American minks and some rare plants of the forest covering there. i

ii) Krutyn – Zgon (12 km) – Krolewska Sosna Reserve, some nature monuments such as 'The lovers' or ' The king's  pine', which is a died tree in fact.

Pictures by Robert Wróbel

iv) Krutyn – Rosocha (10.5 km) - the path firstly leads along the river bank, then through the woods towards the village of Zgon, to some forest peat bog pools.

Then you come back to Mragowo through Krutynski Piecek (water mill and small power station), Rosocha, Wojnowo (Old-Orthodox nunnery and Orthodox church), Ukta (19 th C. church wooden bell tower), Galkowo (horse stable), Kadzidlowo's Wildlife Park – a private museum.

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