Krzeszów - Europejska Perła Baroku

Krzeszów is a small town located in the Kamienna Góra Basin in Lower Silesia. Since the founding of the Diocese of Legnica, it has been its main sanctuary and a place of pilgrimage. Krzeszów is a world-class monument, placed on the List of the President of the Republic of Poland and an iron candidate for UNESCO, then also runs the main European Cistercian Route and the Sudeten Way of St. Jacob. The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace is primarily Basilica Minor of the p.w. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - a beautiful late Baroque temple with a rich interior, called the European Pearl of the Baroque, in which the main altar with a monumental picture of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary deserves special attention, a complex of frescoes on biblical and religious themes and concert organs - considered by many to be the best preserved Baroque organs in this area part of Europe. In the square of the sanctuary there is also the church of p. St. Józef with the series of murals of "Silesian Rembrandt" by M. Willmann "Joy and concern of Saint. Józef "- presenting in unprecedented scenes from the life of Saint. Families. In the back of the basilica, there is the Piastów Świdnicko-Jaworski Mausoleum, in which the remains of the founders of the Cieszów abbey rest in gothic sarcophagi. Apart from the walls, in a beautiful landscape, there are many chapels of Kalwaria Krzeszowska with 33 stations serving to consider the Passion of Christ. However, the greatest treasure of the sanctuary is the 13th-century icon of Our Lady of Grace - the oldest Marian image in Poland, crowned on June 2, 1997 in Legnica by Pope Blessed John Paul II. Krzeszów has also been a place of intermingling of three cultures for centuries, because Poles, Germans and Sorbs have been making pilgrimages here. Also today, in search of a deep encounter with God and the Mother of Jesus, as well as with a great desire to experience extraordinary favors, pilgrims come here not only from Poland, but also from Germany and the Czech Republic.