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Po symbolicznej edycji w 2020 roku Jazz nad Odrą powraca w pełnej krasie. Pięć dni koncertów na trzech scenach, gwiazdy polskiego i światowego jazzu oraz tradycyjne jam session do rana – Strefa Kultury Wrocław odkrywa pierwsze karty tegorocznego programu.
Formerly Jawor, with its medieval castle, erected by Radosław of Bolesławiec, was the seat of the Piast Duchy of Jawor (later: Świdnica-Jawor).
It was ruled successively by Polish (until the end of the fourteenth century), Czech and finally Prussian rulers, who took over the surrounding lands as a result of the Silesian wars led by Frederick II the Great. Twice in its turbulent history, the city was almost completely destroyed (first during the Thirty Years’ War, later consumed by a huge fire in 1776), but each time the inhabitants of Jawor managed to bring back life. Once known for the local sausage, a specialty present on tables not only in the region, produced by local craftsmen in the second half of the 19th century. Jawor was also famous because of production of carriages, or the famous Jawor gingerbread.
Today, however, this Lower Silesian city can boast a wealth of monuments of old architecture, incl. the exquisitely decorated Gothic church of St. Martin from the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, an extensive castle complex, or the neo-Renaissance town hall from the end of the nineteenth century, where the current city authorities reside. The real pearl among the monuments of Jawor, however, is the all-wooden Evangelical Church of Peace built in the years 1664-1665. Together with the Church of Peace in Świdnica, the second preserved temple of the type that Protestants had the right to build in the region under the Treaty of Westphalia, in 2001 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.
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Peace and quiet, unpaved routes - that sounds like slow travel. See the Slow Travel map of Lower Silesia with attractions in the spirit of slow tourism
Złotoryja is located in the Kaczawskie Foothills, in an extremely picturesque region that is commonly called the Land of Extinct Volcanoes (from the origin of the rock formations on the nearby hills).
Five centuries after the Protestant movement initiated by Martin Luther reached the territory of Poland, the cultural heritage of the Reformation is still visible to the naked eye in Lower Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia.
Rudawy Janowickie is a small range in the Western Sudetes located in the area ranging from the Bóbr Valley in the north to the Kowarska Pass (727 m above sea level) in the south and between the Jelenia Góra Valley in the west and the Kamienna Góra Valley in the east. In the vicinity of Janowice Wielkie, they border the Kaczawskie Mountains, and on the Kowarska Pass, with the Karkonosze Mountains.
The Kaczawskie Mountains close the Jelenia Góra Valley from the north, their eastern border is Nysa Szalona River, and the western border is Bóbr River. In the north, the mountains turn into the vast Kaczawskie Foothills. In the north-west they border (through the Bóbr) with the Izerskie Foothills, and in the south-east part with the Rudawy Janowickie. The highest peak is Skopiec in the South Ridge (724 m above sea level).
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The Sudetes stretch in a 300 km long arc in the south-west of Poland along the Polish-Czech border. The present appearance of the Sudetes is the result of long-term orogenic and denudative processes, when the mountains were uplifted and then destroyed.
Over 400 years old wooden masterpieces inscribed into UNESCO World Heritage List.