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Babice
For more than two centuries the bishops of Kraków imprisoned clergy here: heretics, rebellious friars and priests accused of crimes. Lipowiec Castle stands on a wooded limestone hill (362 m above sea level) between Babice and Wygiełzów, an…
Churches & monasteries
Babice
This dark larch-wood church once stood more than 60 kilometres away, in Niegowić near Bochnia. It was here, in 1948–1949, that a newly ordained curate, Father Karol Wojtyła – the future Pope John Paul II – served his first post. In 1973 th…
Churches & monasteries
Babice
In the centre of Babice, less than a kilometre from Lipowiec Castle, stands a pale church with a tall front tower. Its parish was founded as early as 1337, and the present building hides layers from several periods: a medieval chancel, a B…
Museums
Babice
At the foot of the hill with the ruins of Lipowiec Castle stands a village that nobody built in one place. Cottages, granaries, a smithy, a mill and a wooden church were brought here from villages and small towns of western Lesser Poland t…