Kalwaria Zebrzydowska

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This image shows the Monastery in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska in southern Poland. Built from the early 1600s onwards, the Monastery – which is situated in a landscape park with surrounding chapels and Mannerist buildings – soon became a popular pilgrimage destination. The ensemble was commissioned by the voivode of Kraków, Mikołaj Zebrzydowski (1553–1620), who created it as a replica of the Stations of the Cross. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska remains a popular place of pilgrimage until this day with over a million pilgrims visiting the site every year. The 40 pilgrimage destinations are picturesquely scattered on the surrounding hills and in the nearby Cedron Valley.

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, color photograph, 2010, photographer: Ludwig Schneider; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalwaria_Zebrzydowska_014.jpg, Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en.