Local attractions
1. Glaznoty. The village was founded by the Knights of the Teutonic Order in 1328. Today it houses a 14th-century church (built around 1400, rebuilt in the 18th century, then restored in 1899 and again in 2004). After the Reformation it functioned as a Lutheran church, now it is a Methodist church.
2. Historic railroad overpass from the early 20th century. The Community of Cultures Circle is based on Celtic stone circles, built of stones carried by the glacier, and decorated with carvings. Inside there is a boulder – the equivalent of a Celtic menhir – bearing a depiction of Prussian women.
3. Geological Lapidarium. Located next to the Dylewska Góra hill, the lapidarium houses more than 30 specimens, including numerous glacial erratics. They come mainly from local open pits of aggregate mines in Glaznoty, Marcinkowo and Tułodziad. The collected objects represent all petrographic types of rocks – magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic.
4. The Elbląg Canal. A navigable waterway in the Warmia and Masuria Province. In 1978, a section of the canal was declared a monument of technology, while in 2011 it was recognized as a historical monument; it is also one of the seven wonders of Poland. One of the longest navigable routes in Poland, powered solely by the forces of nature. Invented by the Dutch engineer Jakob Georg Steenke, the world’s unique system of slipways and locks allows as much as 9.6 km of route with an elevation difference of more than 100 m.
5. Astronomical Observatory in Truszczyny. As one of the many activities of the Nicolaus Copernicus Foundation, the observatory is committed to promoting the works of Nicolaus Copernicus and disseminating astronomical knowledge. Apart from observing the sun and the night sky, the observatory offers the opportunity to visit an exhibition about Copernicus and a collection of meteorites, as well as to watch films about space exploration and the history of science. The observatory also features the world’s only portable miniature of the EXPOM solar system in 1:10,000,000,000 scale by sculptor Andrzej Renes and Robert Szaj.
