  thumb|Åowicz national costume Åowicz  is a town in central poland with 30,383 inhabitants (2004). it is situated in the ÅÃ³dÅº voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in skierniewice voivodeship (1975â1998). together with a nearby station of bednary, Åowicz is a major rail junction of central poland, where the line from warsaw splits into two directions - towards poznaÅ, and ÅÃ³dÅº. also, the station Åowicz main is connected through a secondary-importance line with skierniewice. the town has an important ethnographic museum (muzeum w Åowiczu) exhibiting polish art and historical artifacts from the region. also, Åowicz features a popular skansen with traditional wooden houses. it is a vast open-air display of historical structures depicting traditional polish village-life; a collection of artifacts spread over a 17-hectare (42&nbsp;acre) site, just outside the town. Åowicz has also a football team called pelikan, who languish in the lower divisions of the polish leagues. near the town is the maurzyce bridge, the first welded road-bridge in the world, built in 1928 across the river sÅudwia. it was designed in 1927 by stefan bryÅa from the 
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