We offer double-bed and four-bed rooms.

We hope to tempt you with haute cuisine and a pleasant atmosphere during evenir gatherings by the wood fire.

   Banica is situated by a smali stream flowing through Zawoja into the Vislok river.
   The first infomation about Banica dates from 1629. It was a royal village of Biecki starosty, which was chartered according to the Volos Law towards the end of the sixteenth century. After the first partition of Poland, it was bought with other villages by William Siemieński, who belonged to the noble clan of Dąbrowa. He was the last starost who purchased the whole leasehold properties from the Austrian government. In themiddle of the XIX th century, due to family connections, the Lewickis came into ownership of Banica.
   Towards the end of the 1930s about 2/3 population converted to the Orthodox faith. Shortly afterwards, the first Greek Orthodox chapel was built in this area.
In 1943 the Germans, in retaliation for the partisans attack, executed by firing squad all inhabitants of Banica born in 1922. After the war, the remaining villagers were displaced.
   At that time the country building were situated by the stream. Nowadays, there is the only one, privately owned farm and our GUESTHOUSE.
   Higher up, among the trees to the west of the road is a military graveyard from World war I, where heavy fighting took place from January to May 1915.
Twelve Austrian and forty Russian soldiers were buried there. This historie place has been renowated on a voluntary basis for a couple of years.
   The upper edge of the valley is cut by a tarmac road running from Pętna to Krzywa. By the road, there is a memorial to Polish pilots who died in Liberator plane crash on 16 August 1944. (According to other historical sources it happened in Septeniber 1944, and this date is written on the tablet.) The memorial was built on the 25th anniversary of the crash.
   On that day the plane was on its way back to Italy, after having dropped supplies for the Warsaw Uprising, when it was shot down by a German fighter near Biecz village. lt is reported to have been a GR-REV-987 flown by captain Zygmunt Plota and navigator Lt. Tadeusz Jencko. A few members of the crew died in an attempt to jump with a parachute near the village of Olszyna. The others died in the crashed plane. The inhabitants of Banica buried them on the cemetery in Krzywa, however, just after the war their remains were transferred to the military cemetery in Cracow.