Nawra is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Chełmża
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Gmina Chełmża is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Toruń County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Chełmża, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.
The g ...
, within
Toruń County
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Toruń County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) in Poland.
* Kuyavian-Pomeranian is one of 13 Polish constituency of the European Parliament.
* Kuyavian-Pomeranian Regional Assembly is the regional legislature of t ...
, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately west of
Chełmża, north-west of
Toruń
Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a World Heritage Sites of Poland, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–199 ...
, and east of
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its bank (geography), left-bank tributary, the Brda (river), Brda, the strategic location of Byd ...
.
The landmark heritage sites of Nawra are the Nawra Palace, which was the former residence of the Kruszyński and Sczaniecki families, and the
Gothic-
Baroque
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parish church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, which dates back to the 14th century.
References
Villages in Toruń County
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