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<\/a><\/p>\n\nLook for Bison in Bia\u0142owie\u017ca (Bia\u0142owie\u017ca National Park)<\/strong>: Better put this under your “Most Unexpected Travel Experiences.” Who would have imagined that part of Poland’s eastern border with Belarus is primeval forest that’s home to Europe’s largest surviving bison herd? Both children and adults alike will enjoy touring the pristine national park.<\/p>\n\nVisit a Wooden “Peace” Church (Jawor and \u015awidnica<\/strong>): Few visitors to Poland have heard of these two massive 17th-century wooden Protestant churches in southwest Poland. Congregations had to build the churches from wood because of strictures on Protestant worship at the time by the Catholic Habsburg rulers. The churches’ size, grace, and stunning beauty all testify to the builders’ faith and their remarkable engineering skills.<\/p>\n\nSee the Miraculous Icon of the “Black Madonna” (Cz\u0119stochowa)<\/strong>: The first Pauline monks started coming to the Jasna G\u00f3ra Monastery in the 14th century. Over the years, it evolved into Catholic Poland’s most important pilgrimage destination and place of worship, drawing millions of Poles and other people from around the world every year. Authorship of the miraculous Black Madonna icon is traditionally attributed to Luke, and the painting is said to have made its way here through the centuries from the Holy Lands, to Constantinople (now Istanbul), to the Ukrainian city of Belz, and finally to Czestochowa in 1382. The monastery allows the painting to be viewed for only a few hours each day, and getting a glimpse of it among the throngs is not unlike trying to see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. Still, it’s worth the effort.<\/p>\n\nTake in Some Socialist Realist Architecture (Warsaw, Krak\u00f3w, and Katowice)<\/strong>: Poles loathe it, but the architecture built during the Communist period is worth seeking out, if only for its downright wackiness. Some of the “finest” buildings include Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and the housing development of Pl. Konstytucja, the Nowa Huta housing project near Krak\u00f3w, and the “Spodek” in Katowice.<\/p>\nWhat are your favorite things to do in Poland?<\/p>\n
Do nast\u0119pnego razu…<\/strong> (Till next time…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2015\/05\/1024px-Morze_Baltyckie_Chalupy-350x262.jpg\")
To me, every visit to Poland is special..I miss my country…and I miss so many little things about it. Every time I’m in Poland, I enjoy special moments:) What are they? They \u00a0could be just anything… Sip Your Coffee on Krak\u00f3w’s Main Square: Superlatives (superlatywy) don’t do justice to Krak\u00f3w’s main square, the Rynek G\u00f3wny…<\/p>\n
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