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Selected city: slemien
Nature
Ślemień
"There is a great rock with water running over it, and beneath it a hole into which a hundred head of cattle could be driven" – this is how Andrzej Komoniecki, the mayor of Żywiec, described the spot in 1704 in his chronicle Dziejopis Żywi…
Churches & monasteries
Ślemień
The story of Jasna Górka begins with a miracle that – as the parish itself admits – someone decided to "make". According to tradition, in the mid-14th century a highlander from Ślemień, back from a pilgrimage to Częstochowa, dipped a holy…
Waterfalls
Ślemień
In the steep beech-wooded ravine of the Dusica stream, on the slopes of the Łamana Skała range, water spills over a huge boulder to form the largest waterfall in the Little Beskids. It is called Dusiołek, or simply the Dusica waterfall. A…
Museums
Ślemień
The museum in Ślemień calls itself the youngest open-air museum in Poland – it opened in August 2012. On more than 6 hectares beside the road to Kocoń stands a village of the Żywiec Beskids assembled from original buildings moved here from…