Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Kalwaria (formerly Kalwarya ) is a small town in the powiat Wadowicki the Province of Lesser Poland on the edge of the Beskydy Mountains in southern Poland with about 4,500 inhabitants and seat of the urban and rural community.
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History
Kalwaria owes its existence to the Cracow voivode Mikołaj Zebrzydowski. In 1600 he was on the mountain Zarek a small Holy Cross Church on the model of Calvary Chapel build in Jerusalem. He believed in the area identify a resemblance to Jerusalem. First, the Bernardine monastery and a church were built. Later, more inspired by Jerusalem objects originated. One of the mountains has been renamed to Golgotha , another to the Mount of Olives and the river to the river Cedron. The 40 chapels are picturesquely on the surrounding hills and scattered in the Cedron Valley. During Holy Week here, see the famous Passion Play with hundreds of thousands of people instead. Zebrzydowa received city rights in 1617. During the First Partition of Poland in 1772 the place was part of Austria.
1884, the city was connected to the railway network, but lost a few years later, in 1896, its town charter. This he received in 1934 again.
During an administrative reform, the place was in 1975 part of the Province of Bielsko. Since a new reform in 1999 it has been part of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Attractions
- Franciscan Monastery (picture below), which was included in the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.
Policy
Twinning
- Since 2001: Hameln (Lower Saxony)
- Levoča (Slovakia )