A village located just beyond the western border of the voivodeship capital, is almost as old as Lublin itself. The first mentions of it come from 1317, so exactly from the same time when the nearby settlement received its city charter. It was then that Duke Władysław Łokietek raised its rank and strengthened the importance of Dąbrowica for several centuries, handing the village into the hands of the mighty Firlej family. The Firlejs, who settled in these lands for good, from the beginning of the XV century signed themselves "de Dombrovica", and thus identifying themselves with the received estates. In 1553, the Ruthenian voivode Piotr Firlej started building a magnificent residence worthy of a wealthy and influential family. The project was completed by his son Mikołaj, and at the beginning of the XVII century the palace was of the highest beauty. Outstanding courtiers, including Jan Kochanowski, a friend of Jan Firlej, visited Dąbrowica. What reminds of the splendor of the former castle today, are one of the corner towers of the palace, adorned with Renaissance decorations, and a fragment of the arcaded gallery. The building of the Diocesan Retreat Center of the Caritas Center "Meetings House" was added to the historic remains in the 1970s.