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Licheń Stary
The Golgotha in Licheń Stary (pronounced roughly "LEE-hen STAH-ri") is an artificial hill of fieldstones and concrete inside the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Licheń, one of Poland's most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites. A winding path leads…
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Nurzec-Stacja
Holy Mount Grabarka (say "grah-BAR-kah") is the most important Eastern Orthodox pilgrimage site in Poland, a wooded hill near the town of Siemiatycze in the Podlasie region of northeastern Poland. Around its church stand thousands of woode…
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Strawczyn
On the summit of Perzowa Góra, massive blocks of red sandstone have split apart to form a cleft, and inside it is a chapel dedicated to St Rosalia – the saint invoked against plague. During the great epidemics of the 19th century, numerous…
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Krasiczyn
Kalwaria Pacławska (roughly "kahl-VAR-yah pahts-WAHF-skah") is a Franciscan pilgrimage sanctuary on a forested hill about 465 m (1,525 ft) above the Wiar River valley in southeastern Poland, close to the Ukrainian border. Founded in 1665,…
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Pakość
In spring 1628 the parish priest of Pakość led the first service along paths he had laid out to mirror Jerusalem, using a 16th-century description of the Holy City by Adrichomius. This was the birth of Pakość Calvary, known as the Jerusale…
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Piekary Śląskie
On Cerekwica Hill in Piekary Śląskie, next to the basilica housing the image of Our Lady of Justice and Social Love, lies the Piekary Calvary – a "New Jerusalem" of the historicist era. Nearly 10 hectares hold 14 Stations of the Cross chap…
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Busko-Zdrój
The little neo-Gothic church on the highest point of the Spa Park in Busko-Zdrój was built practically without permission. According to local history it went up in three weeks, while a tsarist official was away, and its builder paid for it…
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Goniądz
On a grassy hill behind St Agnes' Church stands a white chapel with a red roof, a tall wooden cross beside it. This is St Florian's Chapel, one of Goniądz's listed monuments. A short climb leads up to it, and the reward is an open view ove…
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Kęty
Kęty is where John Cantius was most likely born, on 24 June 1390 – professor at the Kraków Academy, saint and the town's patron. The Baroque church named after him stands near the site of his family home, and on 20 October 2024 it became a…
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Lublin
The Holy Trinity Chapel in Lublin is a Gothic royal chapel inside Lublin Castle whose walls and vaults are entirely covered with Byzantine-Ruthenian frescoes completed in 1418. A Western Gothic building painted in the style of an Orthodox…
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Zakopane
The Jaszczurówka Chapel (yash-choo-ROOF-kah), formally the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is one of the most beautiful wooden buildings in Zakopane and a textbook example of the "Zakopane style." It was designed by Stanisław Witkiewi…
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Milówka
When the Austrian authorities requisitioned church bells for the war effort in 1916, the people of Milówka stole the large bell of St Anthony's Chapel back from the municipal office and buried it. After the war it returned to its place – a…
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Stary Sącz
A few hundred metres from the Poor Clares' convent in Stary Sącz, beside a spring that legend says was found by St Kinga herself, stands a small masonry chapel from 1779. It replaced an older chapel and was built in thanksgiving for healin…
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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…
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Koszalin
The oak figures of the apostles in the altar of Koszalin Cathedral were carved from wood felled in the winter of 1491–1492 in forests along the Vistula near Toruń – conservators established this through tree-ring dating. For a century and…
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Opole
Opole Cathedral, officially the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, is the main church of the Opole region and the tallest building in the city: its two neo-Gothic spires rise to about 73 meters. The red-brick Gothic hall church…
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Toruń
St. John's Cathedral in Toruń, formally the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, is the largest church in the city's UNESCO-listed Old Town and the place where Nicolaus Copernicus was baptized in 1473. Bu…
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Bydgoszcz
The Cathedral of Sts. Martin and Nicholas (Katedra św. Marcina i Mikołaja) is the oldest surviving building in Bydgoszcz, Poland – a Gothic brick parish church on the Brda River, just steps from the Old Market Square. Plain on the outside,…
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Wrocław
St. Mary Magdalene's Cathedral in Wrocław is a towering Gothic brick church just off the Market Square, and the Penitents' Bridge (also called the Witches' Bridge) slung between its two towers is one of the best viewpoints in the city. Fro…
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Kalisz
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kalisz (pronounced roughly "KAH-leesh") is the oldest church in one of Poland's oldest towns: a red-brick Gothic building founded in the 13th century and, since 1992, the cathedral of the Diocese of Kalisz. Behind…
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Białystok
Białystok Cathedral (pronounced "bee-AH-wih-stok"), formally the Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the main Catholic church of northeastern Poland and the most recognizable building in Białystok. Local…
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Bielsko-Biała
The tower of St Nicholas Cathedral is 61 m tall and has defined the skyline of Bielsko-Biała's Old Town for more than a century. The church on St Nicholas Square, just below the former ducal castle, has Gothic roots going back to 1443, yet…
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Elbląg
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Elbląg (say "EL-blonk") is a Gothic brick church whose 97-meter tower is the tallest church spire east of the Vistula River and the landmark you will see first as you approach this northern Polish city. Standing a…
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Kamień Pomorski
Kamień Pomorski Cathedral (pronounced roughly "KAH-myen po-MOR-skee"), formally the Co-Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, is one of the oldest and most important churches on Poland's Baltic coast and a national Monument of History. For alm…