Beata and Alexander Harris own Korczew Palace and Park.
We welcome you to Korczew to see the restoration work we have been doing, view the exhibitions, and enjoy the park.
Our family has lived here for 300 years but the communists threw us out.  They then allowed the buildings and grounds to fall into ruin.
We recovered the property from the state in 1992, but without the large estate that financed it.
We have started local enterprises; a Dairy, Dairy Farm and a Fish Farm to produce revenue, and to create local jobs, and are now restoring the Palace and other buildings and the Park.
You can see this work in progress.

The Palace is architecturally finely proportioned, with good classical detailing.
It was originally built in 1734 by Koncini Bueni, for our ancestor, Wiktoryn Kuczinski. 
   It was re-built 100 years later by Francis Jaszczold in a neo-gothic style,
   (you can recognise this in the gothic perimeter wall).
   and re-modelled in the 1930s by Stanislaw Noakowski in classical style as you see it today.
Don't miss the two-story Hall with its old black oak panelling and balustered gallery,
   the semi-ruined Ballroom with a ceiling of gold rococo arabesques,
   and the tiny Pompeian room which has had its paintings restored.

The Palace is also of cultural importance, or as the bureaucrats say, a 'Treasure of Heritage'.
Wiktoryn's successors kept making trouble for the Russian overlords in the late 18th century.
They championed the Confederation of Bars and the Kosciuszko rising.
The great poet, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, wrote his famous letters to 'The Lady of Korczew'.

You can also see the outside of Syberia, the summerhouse-cum-dungeon, where Polish prisoners were kept captive by the Russians on their way to... yes, that's right, Siberia!

And you can enjoy the Park which is beginning to look like the English landscape garden designed by Jaszczold, in the Capability Brown style.