Hi!
I'm from Wołów and I'd like show you something about this city.http://www.parafiawawrzyniec.pl/
http://www.migbp-wolow.pl/?page_id=5020
Wołów is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, about 50 km from Wrocław. The name of the town is derived from Polish name 'wół' and it means ox. The town was totally burnt in XVII century and then was rebuilt, but still it has a lot of monuments. Wołów also has the Jezierzyca Valley Landscape Park with the river Juszka and the Uroczysko Wrzosy reserve.
The Defensive Walls
We can start our trip from this special place.There are the last of defensive walls
around the central part of the city from XV century. You can see sculpture of oxen and date 1285 when Wołów have become a town. This sculpture was put in 1965 and now it is a town's symbol.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:753viki_Wo%C5%82%C3%B3w_-_mury_miejskie._Foto_Barbara_Maliszewska.jpg
https://dolnoslaskipodroznik.pl/mury-obronne-wolow/#jp-carousel-1565
The Piast's Castle
https://www.google.com/search?q=wo%C5%82%C3%B3w+zamek+piastowski&client=firefox-b-ab&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNxI_kvJfbAhXEGuwKHcz-AgQQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=654#imgrc=gnX1ZGtatoCryM:
Going along the defensive walls we come to beautiful yellow castle.
The castle was built in XIV century. Now, there is an office, and from Monday to Friday you can go inside, contemplate beautifull interiors and also walk into tower and see the view. In September there is special event, when tourists can visit the castle with guide and it is totally free. There is a Marian's columne in front of the castle. She is standing at the globe, surrounded by angels, and the snake, the symbol of sin, is twinning around her legs.
The Town hall
http://m.polskiekrajobrazy.pl/Galerie/1407:WolowNear the castle, we can stop in the city center, where there is a Town hall. It was built in 1692. It was repeatedly upbuilt and it was burnt in 1945. Now there is a register office and mayor's residence. In front of the building there is a sculpture of John the Nepomuk (Jan Napomucen). He is the protector from floods and drowning. In the place near the Town Hall there are big chess, and everyone can play.
The Church of Saint Lawrence (św. Wawrzyniec)
https://dolny-slask.org.pl/6683984,foto.htmlOur next stop could be in this old church. The Church was built in 1391 and from the one side there are defensive walls. On the outside walls there are baroque and renaissance epitaph. In the church there is original organ made by Adam Horatio Casparini in 1715. Since 2001 in the church has been organised Cantus Organi the International Festival of Organ's Music. In January also take place Christmas concerts with famous musicians.
Bank robbery
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napad_na_bank_w_Wo%C5%82owie#/media/File:Wo%C5%82%C3%B3w,_Urz%C4%85d_Miasta_i_Gminy_-_fotopolska.eu_(253449).jpgIn this building took place very interesting story about Wołów. It happened in 1962, when the group of five men, with collectors' help, got inside the bank's treasury. It was the only bank in the city, so they stole about 12 million zlotych, and it was the biggest bank robbery in Polish history in that days. They was caught, because their wives paid in shops 500-bank notse, so first of all it was strange, and secondly those bank notes had serial numbers. In that, makers was cought by militia and sentenced for 25 years. You can watch a film "Hazardziści", that is about this incident.
The monument of the plane
http://www.polskaniezwykla.pl/web/place/29289,wolow-pomnik-na-chwale-polskich-lotnikow-i-kosmonautow.html
Close to the castle there is a monument of the plane, and it is connected with the aviator and the only Polish cosmonaut, who was on the moon Mirosław Hermaszewski, because he is from Wołów. This monument is for Polish aviators and cosmonauts and it is the plane Lim-5P, which Mirosław Hermaszewski flew.
Jezierzyca Valley Landscape Park
http://www.national-geographic.pl/fotografia/dolina-jezierzycyIt is a protected area, established in 1994. In this landscape park you can observe 45 rare species of birds and many different species of reptiles and amphibians. In this area is included Uroczysko Wrzosy a strict nature reserve.
The best way to explore this places is by bike.
Journey from Wrocław to Wołów takes about 45 minutes by train, and one way ticket costs 5 zlotych.
Leubus Abbey (Opactwo Cystersów w Lubiążu)http://navtur.pl/place/show/98,klasztor-cystersow-w-lubiazu
15 km from Wołów is a town Lubiąż, where is a former Cisterian monastery. The abbey was established in 1175 and it is the one of the largest Christian architectural complexes in the world and is considered a masterpiece of Baroque Silesian architecture. During World War II, the buildings of the former abbey were used for secret research laboratories and manufacturing facilities, among other things for the development of radar components and then saw production of engines for V1 and V2 rockets (using prisoners for labour). At the end of the war, the former abbey housed soldiers of the Red Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubi%C4%85%C5%BC_Abbey
In 1997, Michael Jackson flew in his private helicopter to see how this abbey looks like.
Visiting Hours:
from april to september 9:00-18:00
from october to march 10:00-15:00
Normal ticket costs 15zł, concessionary ticket costs 10zł
I hope that you would like visiting this places :)
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