Palace complex in Rajcza, Palace complex in Rajcza, Poland

The Palace complex in Rajcza consists of a palace with outbuildings, a service building and a landscape park on the slope of Cząpel hill. Władysław Lubomirski rebuilt the palace in Neo-Renaissance style in 1895–1896, giving it its present appearance. A wing with a chapel and common room was added in 1966–1967. The park holds six nature monuments, among them two eastern white pines with 310 cm trunks and a small-leaved lime of 470 cm.

Agnieszka Siemońska built the first residence around 1809, and Anastazy Siemoński converted it into a manor in 1833 or the 1840s. In 1895–1896 Władysław Lubomirski rebuilt it in Renaissance Revival style, giving it its present look. Karol Stefan Habsburg bought it in 1914 and gave it to the Polish Red Cross in 1917 as a lung hospital.

The palace's name comes from the village of Rajcza in the Żywiec district. From 1917 it belonged to the Polish Red Cross, which ran a hospital there specialising in lung diseases, and from 1954 a state anti-tuberculosis sanatorium operated in the building. Today it houses a public care and treatment facility for the chronically ill.

The grounds can be explored on foot along marked pathways that wind through the park and around the buildings. The best time to visit is during daylight hours when you can see the architectural details and appreciate how the landscape and structures relate to each other.

Six trees in the palace park are protected natural monuments, among them two eastern white pines with trunks 310 cm around, a small-leaved lime of 470 cm, a sycamore maple of 340 cm, a wych elm of 320 cm and a pedunculate oak of 310 cm. The park lies at the foot and on the slope of Cząpel hill.