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Churches & monasteries
Częstochowa
Jasna Góra Monastery (say "YAS-na GOO-ra") in Częstochowa is Poland's most important Catholic pilgrimage site and the home of the Black Madonna, the icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa. Run by the Pauline Fathers since 1382, it is also a forme…
Landmarks
Częstochowa
Holy Virgin Mary Avenue (Aleja Najświętszej Maryi Panny, known locally simply as "Aleje") is the grand central boulevard of Częstochowa (say "chen-stoh-HOH-vah"), Poland's great pilgrimage city. Some 44 m wide, with a tree-lined pedestrian…
Churches & monasteries
Częstochowa
The Archcathedral of the Holy Family in Częstochowa (say "chen-stoh-HOH-vah") is one of the largest churches in Poland: a neo-Gothic red-brick basilica with twin spires over 80 m (260 ft) tall, standing just a few minutes' walk from the ci…
Churches & monasteries
Częstochowa
In one painting the artist himself helps Christ carry the cross; in another, Primate Wyszyński and John Paul II look on at the Passion; and the final scene is titled "Ascension to Częstochowa". The Golgotha of Jasna Góra is a cycle of 18 p…
Monuments & mounds
Częstochowa
On a bronze bench on the Avenue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Aleja NMP) sits a bearded doctor, a book and a stethoscope beside him. This is Dr Władysław Biegański (1857–1917), voted "Częstochowa's Citizen of the Century" by local residents…
Landmarks
Częstochowa
On its southern side, the Jasna Góra hill is skirted by a street where the headquarters of the Home Army's commander-in-chief stood in the last months of the Second World War. It was in house no. 21 that General Leopold Okulicki, codename…