<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Kowary" class="extiw" title="w:en:Kowary">Kowary</a> is a town in the Lower Silesian region of south-west Poland, just under 100 kilometres from the regional capital of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wroc%C5%82aw" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wrocław">Wrocław</a>.  Close to Kowary and set high in the mountains is the impressive <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kowary.pl/pl/atrakcje-kowary/wysoka-laka/atrakcje-turystyczne">“Wysoka Łąka” (pl)</a> hospital/sanatorium built at the end of the nineteenth century and boasting distinctive Art Nouveau features. On the outskirts of Kowary, at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://koscioly.fotopolska.eu/Kowary/b22340,Wojska_Polskiego_4.html?f=393007-foto">4 Wojska Polskiego</a>, is a contemporary building of the period which was formerly the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://koscioly.fotopolska.eu/Kowary/b22340,Wojska_Polskiego_4.html?f=393007-foto">“Matter Hotel”</a>, Alfons Matter being the renowned developer of the district of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cieszyn" class="extiw" title="w:en:Cieszyn">Cieszyn</a> known as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fotopolska.eu/174487,foto.html">“Matterówka”</a>.   (As a side note, Alfons was the father-in-law of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Andrzej_Kusionowicz_Grody%C5%84ski" class="extiw" title="w:en:Andrzej Kusionowicz Grodyński">Andrzej Grodynski</a> whose first wife died at only thirty years of age from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:tuberculosis" class="extiw" title="w:en:tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a> and the sanatorium at Kowary specialized in the treatment of this ‘disease’ previously known as “consumption”.)<br><span style="color:blue;"><i>The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scotch_Mist/Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Scotch Mist/Poland">Scotch Mist Gallery</a> contains many photographs of historic buildings, monuments and memorials of Poland.</i></span>
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