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Historic sites
Góra Świętej Anny
Stone terraces cut into a former limestone quarry were meant to hold 7,000 seated and 20,000 standing spectators. The amphitheatre on Góra Świętej Anny was built by the Nazis in the 1930s as a stage for propaganda rallies, with a mausoleum…
Nature
Góra Świętej Anny
St Anne's Mountain (Góra Świętej Anny), known for its sanctuary and Calvary, is also a former volcano. Some 27 million years ago a cone of lava and tuff rose here, and the dark rock on which the monastery stands is what remains of it. Sinc…
Churches & monasteries
Góra Świętej Anny
St. Anne's Mountain (Góra Świętej Anny, roughly "GOO-rah shvyen-TAY AH-nee") is a Franciscan pilgrimage shrine with a baroque basilica, a monastery and a hillside Calvary, set on top of an extinct volcano in Poland's Opole region. It is th…
Landscape parks
Góra Świętej Anny
Góra Świętej Anny (St Anne's Mountain) Landscape Park protects 5,051 ha of the Chełm Ridge, the westernmost part of the Silesian Upland, which rises above the flat Opole Plain. It is one of the smaller landscape parks in Poland, yet it hol…
Monuments & mounds
Góra Świętej Anny
The Monument to the Silesian Insurgents on St. Anne's Mountain (Góra Świętej Anny, roughly "GOO-ra SHVYEN-tey AH-nee") is a massive granite memorial by sculptor Xawery Dunikowski, unveiled in 1955 above a former quarry turned giant amphith…