Kiełpin Priest

2 km to the east. from the road junction – Kiełpin Priest. In the village, in the cemetery: graves (mostly collective) Polish soldiers from the army "Poznań” and "Pomerania" who died in September 1939 r. (including the symbolic gen. brig. Mikołaj Boltuc), statue of 1962 r. dedicated to approx. 2500 Polish soldiers, including z 6 Mounted Rifle Regiment from Zhovkva, 8 Mounted Rifle Regiment, 12 Uhlan regiment and 21 Regiment of Vistula Lancers, a monument with a bronze bas-relief depicting an eagle and a lancer during the charge consecrated 105 who died in September 1939 r. soldiers from 14 Jazłowiec Lancers' Regiment, a monument to the Allied airmen shot down over Łomianki 18 September 1944 r., graves of the Home Army partisans from the "Kampinos" group who died during World War II.

At distance 1 km to the north. east. from the village the Kiełpińskie Lake nature reserve – created in 1988 r. on the surface 20,54 ha, to protect the oxbow lake of the Vistula with its characteristic flora and fauna.

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