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The Sowie Mountains and the Strzelin Hills
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Being in the Sowie Mountains be sure to visit the lookout tower on The Great Owl (Wielka Sowa), the highest peak of the range rising to a height of 1015 m.
The Sowie Mountains
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Similarly imposing are Walim Adits which also were a part of the ‘Riese’ project. The ‘Little River’ (‘Rzeczka’) complex consists of 500 m of corridors with impressive halls hiding the deepest obscurities of World War II: prisoners from the Gross Rosen camp were used to build them and most of them died of inhuman working conditions, diseases and hunger.
Project Riese
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The Sleza Mountain, rising above the surrounding area at 718 meters above sea level, is located about 30 km southwest of Wroclaw.