The Sanctuary na Górce — Our Lady Queen of Poland in Szczyrk

The Sanctuary of Our Lady Queen of Poland „na Górce" stands at about 670 m a.s.l. above Szczyrk. The Marian devotion goes back to 1894 when, as tradition has it, apparitions took place here and Mary promised a miraculous spring to twelve-year-old Julianna Pezda. A wooden chapel came first, and the present church was built by the Salesians between 1948 and 1954. In 1994, on the centenary of the apparitions, Bishop Tadeusz Rakoczy raised it to the rank of sanctuary, and in 2008 Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz crowned the image. The miraculous spring still flows beside the grotto.

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Other sights in Szczyrk

Straight-line distances from „The Sanctuary na Górce" — calculated from real coordinates. By road it is often further.

St James's ChurchThe town's oldest place of worship — the log-built wooden church of St James, raised

~1,2 km as the crow flies

The Skalite ski jump complexA complex of three ski jumps (HS104, HS77, K40) named after the Beskid Olympians, with a t

~1,4 km as the crow flies

Beskid Sport ArenaA year-round centre in the Biła valley with the 250-metre Tatra Bob gravity track and mode

~1,6 km as the crow flies

KlimczokA popular peak (1,117 m a.s.l.) with a PTTK mountain hut and the legend of the highwayman

~1,9 km as the crow flies

Szczyrk Mountain ResortThe largest modern mountain centre in the Beskids — a 10-seat gondola and year-round attra

~3,7 km as the crow flies

SkrzyczneThe highest peak of the Silesian Beskids (1,257 m a.s.l.) with a panorama of the Żywiec Ba

~4,4 km as the crow flies

Magurka WiślańskaA scenic peak (1,140 m a.s.l.) on the ridge between Szczyrk and Wisła, with the Mur and Ba

~11 km as the crow flies

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