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Jasna Gora Monastery
Pauline monastery at Czestochowa housing the Black Madonna icon, Poland's principal pilgrimage site, sited just off the DK1 corridor.
3 km · about 5 min drive
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Częstochowa
Silesia, Poland · Europe
About Częstochowa
Częstochowa is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Huta Stara B, 3km from Jasna Gora Monastery.
Częstochowa is in Silesia, Poland, with about 250,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Huta Stara B, about 7 km away.
Częstochowa ( CHEN-stə-KOH-və, Polish: [t͡ʂɛ̃stɔˈxɔva] ) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship. However, Częstochowa is historically part of Lesser Poland, not Silesia, and before the 1795Read more
Partition of Poland, it belonged to the Kraków Voivodeship. Częstochowa is located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is the largest economic, cultural and administrative hub in the northern part of the Silesian Voivodeship.
The city is known for the famous Jasna Góra Monastery of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit of the Catholic Church, which is the home of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, a shrine to Mary, mother of Jesus. Every year, millions of pilgrims from all over the world come to Częstochowa to see it.
Częstochowa was also home to Frankism in the late 18th and 19th centuries, an antinomian Sabbatean movement of Rabbinic Judaism that led to a mass conversion to Catholicism.
The city excavated an ancient site of the Lusatian culture, with a museum devoted to it. The ruins of a medieval Royal Castle stand in Olsztyn, approximately 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the city centre (see also Trail of the Eagles' Nests).
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Within an hour or so of Częstochowa: Jasna Gora Monastery (3 km), Ogrodzieniec Castle (The Witcher, Kaer Morhen) (49 km).
Where is Częstochowa?
Częstochowa is in Silesia, Poland, about 7 km from Huta Stara B.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 248,125
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Poland
- Region
- Silesia
- Timezone
- Europe/Warsaw
- Coordinates
- 50.7965, 19.1241
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2 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Ogrodzieniec Castle (The Witcher, Kaer Morhen)
The ruined Polish hilltop castle used as Kaer Morhen and battle sites in Netflix's The Witcher.
49 km · about 55 min drive
Driving in Poland
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.42/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€5.00/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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