Cycling to Szumin 2026: Route: Mińsk Mazowiecki–Stanisławów–Szumin–Barchów (special stage)

The tour starts at the Mińsk Mazowiecki train station, which we’ll reach via Koleje Mazowieckie from Warsaw Śródmieście. The train from Warsaw departs around 8:00 a.m. (we’ll provide the exact time once KM announces its summer schedule in early June). It’s a good idea to arrive a little early to buy a train ticket (you can also do this online). We’ll meet on the platform in Mińsk Mazowiecki, form a group, and set off together.

 

This route offers epic visual experiences, culminating in the winding Bug River near Szumin—though all this comes at the cost of some serious physical effort.

 

We start the route in the capital of Mazovian railways, Mińsk Mazowiecki. It’s worth taking a look at the PKP and PKS station buildings. From there, we head north. Your tires won’t get bored! The route consists mostly of local asphalt roads, interspersed with gravel sections and Mazovian sand. Why start from Mińsk? A dozen or so kilometers to the north, in the village of Stanisławów, stands the home of Mr. Leszek—the mechanic of the legendary Warszawa (the Hansens’ car). This house was designed by the Hansens themselves. If we’re lucky, we might not only catch a glimpse of the house from the street but also see that legendary Warszawa.

 

The trip to Szumin will take us about five hours. We’ll drive through Stanisławów, Dobre, and Jadów. An epic stretch along the Bug River awaits us, leading us straight to the home of Zofia and Oskar Hansen in Szumin. Here, we’ll catch our breath before the tour.

 

Upon returning to Warsaw, we encourage tour participants to take part in a live screen printing session, which will be held at Kwiaciarnia Grafiki.

It’s a good idea to bring a light-colored T-shirt on which we’ll print a commemorative graphic of Szumin. You can drop off your T-shirt at Kwiaciarnia a few days before the event so it doesn’t have to travel on your back the entire way.

 

Return to the Barchów train station. We will provide the exact departure times for return trains to Warsaw after KM announces the summer schedule (in early June).

If you want to return to Barchów on your own, here is the return route.

Tor Kwiatek from Kwiaciarnia Grafiki—a Warsaw-based screen printing studio—leads cycling trips to Szumin. Here’s what he has to say about them:

“The trips combine train travel with cycling. We travel from Warsaw to the starting point by train. We cover the rest of the route in the spirit of cycling tourism. At a brisk pace, yet without ignoring the surroundings. Riding together allows us to explore the network of roads leading to Szumin, which serves as an opportunity to get to know the northern Mazovia region more broadly. Note! One tour starts from Mińsk Mazowiecki, and along its route we will see the “Mechanic’s House” designed by the Hansens. This is an option for those who enjoy covering long distances on a bike and are not daunted by the challenging terrain of the Bug River landscape.

 

The tour is just the first stage of what awaits you in Szumin, namely a guided tour of the Zofia and Oskar Hansen House in Szumin and a screen printing workshop. Each participant will have the opportunity to print a small-scale graphic using the screen printing technique, prepared especially for this occasion by Kwiaciarnia Grafiki and inspired by the Hansen House.

 

Tor Kwiatek — artist, graphic designer, screen printer. A fan of cycling, typography, and the anthropocene. Together with the Nowe Dynasy initiative, he is fighting to save the Orzeł cycling track. He practices bicycle flânerie—Tour de Varsovie. He co-runs the outdoor galleries TOR and Ad HOK. His series of typographic representations of architecture can be found from New York through Marseille and Katowice all the way to Warsaw. He began his adventure with art by creating stickers, co-founding the vlep[v]net collective. Together with Marta Kwiatek, he co-runs the Kwiaciarnia Grafiki studio, which has been promoting screen printing culture for over a decade in the name of democratizing access to art. Using this manual printing technique, they carry out commissions and original projects, but above all, they invite creative individuals to join them on a shared adventure with screen printing. They collaborate with, among others, Maurycy Gomulicki, Karol Radziszewski, and Aleksandra Waliszewska. They promote their screen-printed works online at graphicsflowershop.com and through the exhibition series “Liberté, Égalité, Serigrafité!”, which offer the opportunity for direct engagement with the screen-printing technique. They celebrate exhibition openings with live screen-printing events that involve the audience.