Art & culture
A farming village where the women paint flowers on everything: houses, wells, barns and even the dog kennel.
Photo: Michał Robak / Unsplash
More than a hundred years ago the women of Zalipie began painting over the soot stains in their kitchens. It grew into a tradition: whole cottages covered in bright flowers, inside and out.
Every year after Corpus Christi the village holds a competition for the best painted house. Few foreign visitors make it here, which is exactly why I love sending people.
Often yes: the House of Painters runs small workshops. I check what is on for your date and book it.
A sloping wooden market town that inspired painters, next to a UNESCO pilgrimage park in the hills.
A 15th-century larch church, built without a single nail and painted inside like a jewellery box.
Under the Old Town lies a maze of brick cellars, and in some of them very good jazz plays late into the night.
