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Mountains & peaks
Zawoja
It has long been called the Mother of Bad Weather – and for good reason: on the dome of Diablak, sunshine can give way to fog and gale within an hour. Babia Góra is the highest peak of the Western Beskids and, outside the Tatras, the highe…
National parks
Zawoja
Babia Góra National Park (Babiogórski Park Narodowy; say "BAH-bya GOO-rah") protects a single, mighty mountain on the Polish–Slovak border: Babia Góra, the "Queen of the Beskids." Its summit, Diablak (1,725 m / 5,659 ft), is the highest po…
Churches & monasteries
Zawoja
By the road through Zawoja Policzne stands a small white chapel under a shingled roof that rises into an onion dome with a lantern. This is the Chapel of St John the Baptist, known locally as the brigands' chapel — tradition says it was fo…
Churches & monasteries
Zawoja
The parish itself counts St Clement's Church in the centre of Zawoja among the largest wooden churches in Poland. Built in 1888 with funding from Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, it surprises with its scale: three aisles divided by cast-iron…