Golden Mountain

more Zlota Gora - Golden Mountain is a hill on the Trail of the Eagles' Nests, located opposite to Jasna Gora. The Mountain is made of limestone and in its white slopes and excavations the hill reflects rays of setting sun with gold. An unforgettable view – a vista of the whole Czestochowa stretches away from the place. On the hillsides of Golden Mountain a couple of lime kilns were built. On the western side of Golden Mountain quarries of Jurassic limestone (‘Saturn’, ‘Adam’, ‘Calcium’ and ‘Emilia’) were exploited.[Czestochowa]

City Parks at Jasna Gora

more The park landscaping is situated in the western part of the city at the foot of the slope of the hill with the Jasna Gora Pauline monastery. The current shape was given to them by Franciszek Szanior in 1908 in connection with the Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition.
The layouts of the two parks - the 3rd of May Park and the Staszic Park are similar, they are based on one main pedestrian way running diagonally and a radiating network of streets dividing parks into squares.[Czestochowa]

Geometrical centre of Czestochowa

more The centre of the city determined in 2003 was cast in bronze. It was funded by The Water Board of the Czestochowa district, which seized this opportunity to advertise the company, on the 75th anniversary of its establishment. The centre was unveiled in the middle of the day and the week.[Czestochowa]

Archaeological discoveries in the Old Market Square

more During excavations carried out from 2007-2009 in the Old Market Square, a city well and probably the place where honorable executions were held, were found. So far the excavations have taken place in an area of 500 m² and up to 3.80 m deep, with the average depth being 1.5 – 2 m. 6 archaeological buildings were found: a city scale building, a city well, stalls, probably the place of executions – a gallows. 
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Mine drifts and the B pavilion in Jasna Gora parks

more The building dates back to 1908 and was built for the Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition. It is located in the south-western part of Stanislaw Staszic Park, between Pasaz Biskupa Barely and 7 Kamienic Street. There are two longitudinal corridors in its basement: northern and southern – one of them splits to the west and north-west, and crosswise corridors: eastern and western. In the northern corridor there is an excavator cutter with a wagon and an electric engine, a wagon with output and a wagon for explosives. In the southern corridor there is an electric engine, a wagon and a pit prop wagon and in the eastern corridor you can find a centrifugal pump.[Czestochowa]

Doctor Wladyslaw Bieganski’s bench

more Doctor Wladyslaw Bieganski was the inhabitant of Czestochowa of the century – sat on the bronze bench in Najswietszej Maryi Panny Avenue in front of the City Library named after him on the 23rd of September 2008. He was an outstanding doctor and a community worker, ethicist and philosopher. The bench was built thanks to the initiative of the Medical Society and support of the Czestochowa City Hall.[Czestochowa]

Multicentrum Zodiak

more The Czestochowa Multicentre is a place, where they will show the young and not-so-young how to use knowledge to create things of great beauty and use. This is a place, where all  residents – including teaching staff – can discover new ways and methods of education. In the Multicentre they show that bread does not come from the store – its production is a long, complex technological process, starting with growing cereal, leading through the production of flour, and to the baker mixing it with other ingredients and delivering it to the shop.
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House of Poetry-Museum of Halina Poswiatowska in Czestochowa Museum

more In the family house of Halina Poswiatowska, then was rebuilt in 2006, the Czestochowa Museum created the House of Poetry, which is a museum exhibition of memory of the outstanding poet, as well as a place where writers, poets and lovers of literature and art meet. The house in which the poet lived was rebuilt in 2006. The exposition was organised in accordance with scenario by Dr. Hurnikowa from the Jan Dlugosz University who is the author of a book about poets from Czestochowa.[Czestochowa]

Archaeological Reserve in Czestochowa Museum

more Archaeological Reserve – covers a Lusatian culture cemetery from the beginning of the Iron Age(750-550 BC) with 85 excavated burial places and everyday objects, such as pots, bracelets and scoops. Apart from archaeological sites, there is an exhibition presenting material, social and spiritual culture of Lusatian population in Poland.[Czestochowa]

Czestochowa Museum

more Czestochowa Museum is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Czestochowa, functioning since 1905. It documents the city's heritage, which is inextricably linked with the history of Poland. It houses a large collection of Polish and regional paintings, including the works of Jacek Malczewski, Wojciech Weiss, Jan Cybis, and Teodor Axentowicz as well as a considerable collection of graphic works representative of Polish art. As regards ethnography, the collection of Polish devotional art and regional folk culture artefacts deserves particular attention. 
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Feast of the Cross Church

more A parish Feast of the Cross Church, situated at the crossroads of Bialska Street and Sikorskiego, was constructed in the neo-Renaissance style in 1949-56 and consecrated on the 31st of January 1954. In 1989 a sheet copper roof was laid (the previous roofing was damaged by gales), the interior of a “small” church was renovated and Our Lady of Sorrows funeral chapel was built by a belfry and consecrated by bishop Kolodziejczyk on the 14th of September 1991.[Czestochowa]

Town Hall in Czestochowa

more The Town Hall is a symbol of the city, reminds people of the foundation of the up-to-date Czestochowa. It was erected for the seat of the local government of the new town in 1828, two years after the official merger of the Old and the New City. Unlike municipal buildings in most other towns, the Czestochowa Town Hall is situated on the transverse axis of the town's central square.[Czestochowa]

The Holy Virgin Mary Chapel

more The Holy Virgin Mary Chapel is the Gothic Chapel with the Black Madonna picture. That famous and sacred picture placed in the Baroque ebony altar is highly regarded for many miracles that make it the object of pilgrims devotion from all parts of the Globe. In 1662 - 1664 the Chapel was extended by a three - nave Baroque building, which is now an outstanding example of Polish architecture of the Counter-Reformation period.[Czestochowa]

The Miraculous Painting

more Jasna Gora's most valuable treasure is the miraculous painting of Our Lady. Because of this painting, Jasna Gora became Poland's most famous sanctuary among the numerous sites to Marian devotion throughout the country. But it is not just the tradition, which considers Luke the Apostle as the artist, or the influence of monarchs to whom Jasna Gora has always been dear that made this place famous above all others.
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Jasna Gora

more Jasna Gora is one of the main destinations for pilgrims in the contemporary Christian world. The Pauline Fathers were summoned to Jasna Gora in 1382 by Prince Ladislaus of Oppeln. The miraculous painting of the Virgin Mary owned by the monastery has been drawing great numbers thousands of pilgrims since the 15 century, initially from other regions of Poland and later also from other European countries and from the rest of the world.
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