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Outside exterior Chapel B Church Urbex Poland Adam X Urban Exploration Permission Visit Access 2016 Abandoned decay lost forgotten derelict location haunting eerie

Explore #179: Chapel B, Poland – May 2016

May 19, 2017

Explore #19 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ The next morning our exploring odyssey continued with a permission visit to a beautiful chapel which is slowly decaying behind locked doors in a small Polish town. Our Explore It was another gorgeously sunny spring morning – so where better to be than inside a dark and cold disused church! The caretaker let us in, and we had just over an hour to take our shots. The sunshine helped illuminate the faded…

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Explore #177: Neoclassical Palace, Szczyty, Poland – May 2016

April 28, 2017

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Palaces, Castles & Mansions, Poland

Explore #17 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ En route to a much larger palace we paid a quick pit stop at another once-grand residence… History (translated and rewritten from here and here). The village of Szczyty used to lie on an important amber trade route from Southern to Northern Europe. Records going back to 1611 mention the von Hauenschild family as owners of the village. By the 19th century a neoclassical palace was erected, surrounded by an attractive landscaped…

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Explore #148: Théâtre – Cinéma Varia, Belgium – October 2015

July 20, 2016

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Belgium, Leisure Sites

Explore #7 of ‘The Royal Variety Tour’ Day Two of our weekender began with an explore of a grand old place which I’d wanted to see since the days before my first European exploring trip. Somehow I’d never quite got around to fitting it in, but finally after another super early start we successfully crept past the nosey neighbours and their barking dogs whilst they still slept, and found our way inside at very first light. History Théâtre Varia was…