Czestochowa

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Czestochowa

 

Jasna Góra monastery

Częstochowa, city in southern Poland, capital of Częstochowa Province, on the Warta River. Częstochowa, a major industrial city, is joined by rail with Kraków. The principal manufactures include iron and steel, textiles, and paper, and a trade in religious articles is centered here. The Jasna Góra monastery (14th century) was a stronghold for Polish forces resisting Swedish invasions in the 17th and early 18th centuries; it contains a noted painting of the Virgin Mary called the Black Madonna. The monastery was visited in 1979 by Pope John Paul II. Population (1997 estimate) 258,100.

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the monastery

 

the chapel

 

Black Madonna.

 

 

later style courtyard

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Polish Women's costumes

 

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