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The Hermitage of the Holy Spirit in Czatachowa
Czatachowa (1.83 km)
In the village of Czatachowa, in the central part of the Kraków Częstochowa Upland, near Jasna Góra, a few Pauline monks began hermit lives in the 90s of the last century. In the course of time, the area of the Holy Spirit Hermitage was enclosed by a stone wall, and the monks built a small stone church of the Holy Spirit and the wooden chapel of St Anthony the Hermit. They themselves started to live in modest cottages, scattered in the foreSt
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Jaskinia Ostrężnicka
Janów (2.77 km)
The cave is located in the “Ostrężnik” nature reserve at the foot of a great pillar of rock, on top of which there are the remnants of a medieval castle.
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The Old Raczyński Trout Farm in Złoty Potok
Złoty Potok (3.39 km)
The trout farm in Złoty Potok is the oldest breeding farm in continental Europe. Ponds on the small river of Wiercica in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland were built by Count Edward Raczyński, the owner of the estate in Złoty Potok. Engineer Michał Girdwoyń, the best then a specialist was commissioned to design the ponds’ arrangement. In 1881, the first ponds were stocked with trout brought in from California in the United States.
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Rybaczówka in Złoty Potok. The Old Hostel of the Polish Tatra Society
Złoty Potok (3.42 km)
The building of Rybaczówka, erected in the interwar years, in 1935, served as a mountain hostel of the Polish Tatra Society until the end of the Second World War. It is associated with the trout farm of the Raczynskis, which was once the first trout farm in Europe. The building was put up at the initiative of Count Aleksander Raczyński, who was known as a passionate of tourism. The building, alternately devastated and renovated during the communist period and neglected in the years after the fall of communism, is waiting for its revitalization. Currently, it is being used by the Silesian Agricultural Advisory Center in Częstochowa and for tourism purpose.
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Roman Catholic parish church. St. John The Baptist. Nicholas B.W. in "Niegowa"
Niegowa (3.47 km)
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The Early Medieval Settlement " Wały" in Złoty Potok
Złoty Potok (3.48 km)
The early medieval settlement “Wały” lies in the vicinity of Złoty Potok. It was a rock stronghold located in the highland. It consisted of a few parts. It was erected on a forested promontory above the Wiercica river valley. It was composed of three outer settlements and a central fortress protected by the earthworks. The site was inhabited from the eighth to the twelfth century. The red marked Trail of the Eagles' Nests runs in the vicinity of the remains of the settlement earthworks.
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Strażnica obronna w Przewodziszowicach
(3.49 km)
W pobliżu miejscowości Przewodziszowice na Wyżynie Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej, znajdują się ruiny jednego z mniejszych Orlich Gniazd. Tutejsza strażnica obronna zbudowana została prawdopodobnie w XIV, lub też na przełomie XIV i XV wieku. Inicjatorem jej wzniesienia był albo król Kazimierz Wielki, albo książę Władysław Opolczyk. Obiekt na pewien czas w XV wieku stał się siedzibą rycerza-rozbójnika Kornicza, zwanego Siestrzeńcem, który - według legendy - ukrył tu zrabowane skarby.
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The Ruins of the Watchtower in Łutowiec
Łutowiec (3.85 km)
Łutowiec is an inconspicuous village (formerly known as Oltowiec or Holtowiec). It is an old village, mentioned for the first time at the end of the fourteenth century. A medieval watchtower, of which remains have been preserved on one of the rock outcroppings, is one of the most mysterious objects of this kind in the Jura. It was probably founded in the fourteenth century, but already in the next century, it became abandoned and was beginning to fall into ruin.
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The Kołaczew Water Mill in Złoty Potok
Złoty Potok (4.05 km)
For centuries, water mills have been present in the Polish countryside. However, their time has gone, therefore, in the twenty-first century, we can admire only a few historic objects of this type. We will see a traditional mill in beautiful surroundings in Złoty Potok, in the Kraków-Częstochowa. The water mill “Kołaczew” was powered with the water of the Wiercica water from medieval times, but the present building is 200 years old. The machines use an electric engine.
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NIEDŹWIEDZIA GROTA CAVE AT ZŁOTY POTOK
Złoty Potok (4.10 km)
The Niedźwiedzia Grota cave is located in the “Parkowe” natural reserve is the most frequently visited cave in the Janów municipality.
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The Market Square in Złoty Potok
Złoty Potok (4.86 km)
In Złoty Potok, a village of the Polish Jura, which is beautifully situated on the Wiercica, a tourist may not complain about the lack of attractions. These areas are renowned for their landscape values, and there is no shortage of monuments. In the center of the village, it is worthwhile to stop for a moment in the meticulously restored market square known under the name of Saint John’s The Baptist Square. The local parish church is also worth visiting, while the square itself is adorned with a fine well and a bronze statue of the "Nosiwódki", - a woman carrying the buckets of water.
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The Church of St John the Baptist in Złoty Potok
Złoty Potok (4.96 km)
The church of Saint John the Baptist in Złoty Potok was built probably in the late thirteenth century. In the following centuries, it was rebuilt several times - for example, distinctive tower was added in the second half of the nineteenth century. Inside the church there are primarily Mannerist and Baroque monuments, but it is also worthwhile to see to the nineteenth-century mortuary chapel of the Krasiński family.
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