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Nature
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The boulder field on Łysa Góra (say "WIH-sah GOO-rah"; the field is called a gołoborze, "goh-woh-BOH-zheh") is the largest expanse of bare quartzite rock in Poland's Holy Cross Mountains. This gray "sea of stones" pours down the northern s…
Churches & monasteries
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Święty Krzyż Monastery (say "SHVYEN-ti kshish," meaning "Holy Cross") crowns Łysa Góra, a 594 m summit in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains of central Poland. This former Benedictine abbey has kept relics believed to be fragments of the True Cr…
Churches & monasteries
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For centuries the pilgrims' road to Święty Krzyż (Holy Cross) has run through Nowa Słupia – and it was here, at the stone Church of St Lawrence, that they stopped before climbing Łysa Góra (Bald Mountain). At the entrance to the churchyard…
Churches & monasteries
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Beneath the basilica of Święty Krzyż (Holy Cross), on the summit of Łysa Góra, mummified bodies of the monastery's former residents lie in open coffins. At the centre of the crypt rests a figure in a nobleman's żupan and cloak, with a mace…
Museums
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In Nowa Słupia, at the foot of Święty Krzyż (Holy Cross Mountain), stands a museum built directly over an archaeological site: beneath its roof lie the remains of ancient bloomery furnaces dating from the 1st to the 3rd century AD. The Mie…