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Extract from the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Travel Guides:
Nestled among hills some 30km southwest of Krakw, the town of
KALWARIA ZEBRZYDOWSKA
looks and feels like a footnote to its main attraction: a historic hilltop centre of religious pilgrimage. Reached via the road leading south off the curiously empty Rynek from behind the parish church, with a steepish half-kilometre climb to the top, the large complex contains a Bernardine monastery, Church of the Virgin and a Via Dolorosa built by the Zebrzydowski family in the early seventeenth century, following a vision of three crosses here on the family estate. Miracles followed and the country's first and best-known Calvary grew to become one of...
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