Osada Czorsztyn, Open-air museum in Czorsztyn, Poland.
Osada Czorsztyn is an open-air museum on Stylchyn hill overlooking the lake, featuring old wooden houses, farmsteads, and stone cellar buildings. The grounds span 17 hectares and combine working guesthouses with restored historic structures from several different villages.
The museum was founded in the 1990s to preserve buildings that vanished when the Czorsztyńskie Lake was flooded. The lake was created by damming the Dunajec River and fundamentally reshaped the surrounding landscape.
The name Osada refers to a traditional settlement, and the grounds display structures from rural communities that disappeared when the lake was created. The buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries show how farming families actually lived in this region.
Visitors can stay in historic wooden buildings that have been converted into guesthouses, including Villa Sanoka which serves as the main reception area. The hill offers walking paths and views of the water and the medieval castles on the opposite shores.
The site features a distinctive row of stone-walled cellars from the village of Maniowy that were originally built for underground storage. Each one is topped with a wooden hay roof, showing a particular building approach that is rarely found elsewhere in the region.
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