Uroczysko Zaborek is a place where Arabian sheikhs inhale tasty cepelinai, and American rock stars ask for pancakes with cheese and raisins and plant oaks. If you want to ask what Polish parochial nobility has to do with the big world, we will answer that it is most likely a unique taste for Podlasie food and a love for horses.
Right away, we will give you a map, because without one it will be difficult to find all the wonders we have here. Later, we will invite you to your rooms in the old forester's lodge, where the Rolling Stones lived, to the Princess Apartment in the windmill, to a cabin near the forest or to a completely different place. We will take you to the church, where the icons are still hanging, visit the underground, visit the garden of Bazyli Albiczuk, an artist from Podlasie, whose paintings have found their way to museums, galleries and collections all over the world, use the rooms in our sauna or sit by a pond with a romantic bridge.
For 20 years, we have managed to create a unique guesthouse in Zaborek, like an open-air museum, but full of modern comforts. We invite you to a history lesson that you will not learn in any school ...
On over 70 hectares, there are several dozen wooden buildings from old times. Guest rooms are located in Stara Plebania, Bielany Dworek, Zaścianek, Forester's Lodge, Bania and a windmill. We arranged each of them with sentiment for the old times, but also for the comforts needed in our era. Due to the historic character of the buildings and the conservation supervision over the buildings, the rooms are small, but we made sure that they were cozy and functional. There is also air conditioning, comfortable bathrooms, adequate cosmetics and all the comfort we need.
Each room is decorated in a different style and named in accordance with the character: e.g. Hunting Room, Podlasie, People's Room, Młynareczka, Gajowy Suite or Princess Suite, on the top floor of the windmill, in which the mill wheel and the entire mechanism are exposed. And despite the fact that we usually have a lot of guests - no one bumps into each other, no one disturbs each other. It is quiet and spacious.
Small conferences and workshops are held in a desacralized wooden church. There is a restaurant in the conservatory. Each of the buildings has its own, interesting story, which we will gladly tell you about over afternoon coffee.
Every room and common space in Zaborek is connected with nature and this is what it is supposed to be like, because we are bringing back the memory of old times. Spend some time in a magic garden, as if painted by the hand of Nikifor from Podlasie, Bazyli Albiczuk.
Anyone who is curious about true Podlasie cuisine should stay in Zaborek for longer. The kitchen offers the best breakfasts and dinners on this side of the Bug. What can you expect?
- breakfasts
- evening feasts with the smell of smoking and smoke
- menu stars, such as Rolling Stones fritters (favorite drummer and his wife)
- fragrant broth on country hen
- dumplings with meat and pumpkin
- groats, potatoes, dumplings and cepelins
- homemade pancakes
Our kitchen specializes in flour, dumplings, dumplings, potato dumplings and extracting the flavor from vegetables.
The whole "Podlaski Przełom Bugu" Landscape Park is to be seen. But in addition to just watching, we recommend that you actively experience these areas with all your senses.
- horse riding in the nearby Stajnia For Pleasure
- bicycle trips (trails along dirt or asphalt roads with little traffic, mainly forest roads along the Bug and its surroundings)
- trips along the trail with monuments of three cultures - the Catholic sanctuary of Our Lady of Kodeń, the remains of Tatar mizars in Studzianka and Lebiedziewo, the Orthodox monastery of St. Onufry in Jabłeczna and to the place of numerous pilgrimages of Święta Góra in Grabarka.
- kayaking and boat trips in the "Podlaski Przełom Bugu" Landscape Park. (The Bug is the last completely unregulated river in Poland. While kayaking you can admire the beauty of the naturally shaped landscape, as well as the results of the work of beavers.
- rides in peasant carts
- winter sleigh rides
- on special request, we organize unique sports and recreational activities and excursions
- there are football, basketball and beach volleyball courts as well as a tennis court for athletes
- visiting the stud in Janów Podlaski
- Zaborek is artist-friendly. Since 2001, open-air painting workshops have been held here, hosting artists from all over Poland, both famous and promising artists of the young generation.
What can you do in Zaborek?
- meet a folk herbalist who will talk about the herbs grown in our garden and herbarium
- take a walk around Zaborek with a guide and listen to his talk
- in the autumn and winter period, relax in the Ruska Banya and in a tub with hot water
- go out during the winter night with torches to the stone circle of the "Place of Power"
- watch a movie about Zaborek and the area and photos from Janów Stud
- send children to the summer cinema for the youngest
- ride a horse cart around Zaborek and the surrounding area
- sit by the lake (unfortunately not suitable for swimming)
- canoeing
- use the outdoor heated swimming pool in summer
What’s there for children?
We invite families with children to visit Zaborek for history lessons. We guarantee that the knowledge about the time of noble democracy flows to students' heads in an unnoticeable, but permanent way :) Children are invited to our playground and to the house of baby Jaga. Otherwise:
Playground with swings, sandbox, rope lift, slides, trampoline and much more
- A playhouse full of toys, with crayons, blocks and more.
- Quest (fun in the field)
- Sports fields for football, basketball, net, etc.
- Educational nature trail - a trip with a map in hand and with your nose next to the ground in search of animals and plants
- Open-air museum trail - a crazy history lesson in a nutshell about what is in the minds of people in Podlasie
- Stalking field game full of puzzles and surprises
And on this holiday: art classes with Mrs. Gałgankowa for children and parents, a family trip around Zaborek with a guide, an evening out in search of a fern flower and much more ...
