Tranzyt Hotel Czestochowa

This video shows the viewer our tour guide, Father Simon, as he let us into a private tour of the several centuries old monastery library at Jasna Gora.  He is explaining that the book he is paging through is a 700 year old bible translated into Polish by monks from the monastery.  We also got to sign the guest book there, and saw the guestbook with many signatures of some pretty impressive historical figures.

... since 1382. Our guide for our nearly four hour tour was Father Simon Stefanowicz, a 74-year old priest who did a wonderful job of leading us, at a very fast pace, to nearly every corner of the monastery during our tour.

When I wrote earlier that I was not prepared for what I saw at Jasna Gora, I mean I was not prepared for the scale of what I saw. Jasna Gora is the site of pilgrimages for thousands of Poles during the summer months. People from ...

Today we are going to see the 'Black Madonna of Częstochowa' in Poland. The picture is a holy icon of the Virgin Mary, that is both Poland's holiest relic and one of the country's national symbols.

Our drive is mostly on the highways and then a few back roads. We follow the signs to the town and miss a couple of short cuts the GPS wants us to take. We make it there and ...

The Poland Pilgrimage was something I was looking forward to all semester. Most students who come back from the Austria semester say it was the most moving and unique experience they had while being abroad and is the favorite long weekend of many. Needless to say, I awaited this trip in eager anticipation, and it was this anticipation that made the 15 hour bus ride miserable. We started the trip at 8pm Wednesday night with an overnight trip to Czestechowa, Poland--the ...

What is the best way to spend a national holiday? with travelling of course. it was nothing big, just Czestochowa and Olsztyn (which is like 5 kms away from here) but still I enjoyed it a lot! My mum's friends came over to Czestochowa and as I promised I'll show them the area I ...

Today I was going to go to Czestochowa by myself. But I convinced my aunt to go with me because she never really gets out of the house. So off to Czestochowa we went by bus. Czestochowa is known for it's painting of the Black Madonna. This painting was brought from Jerusalem to Czestochowa in the 14th century. She is known as the one who protects Poland and is a huge icon for the Polish people and their ...

... I was informed the train was standing up there already. In a few mins there joined me a lady and she started talking, talking talking. She was nice and friendly but I was far too tired. I think she got it and said she would let me sleep. In Czestochowa I had to change, which meant I was going to carry my suitace up- and down- stairs, again. I arrived to Opole around 9 a.m., took a cab home (strangely enough, I found some unexpected cash in my ...

On our way from Krakow to Poland, we stopped to visit the concentration camp of Auschwitz. We had a guided tour which took us to two parts of the camp. After Auschwitz we went north to Czestochowa to see the 14th century Paulite monastery at Jasna Gora. We got to see ...

... you to try and pronounce that, pretty sure that's the wrong spelling tho) which is a local dish exclusive to Poreba. We all met at their piece of land they have to grow veggies and have barbys and stuff, I think its called a djioka, I have no idea how its spelled. Anyway, it was cooked on an open fire outdoors in a big cast iron pot with three legs and the lid screwed on for a pressure cooker effect. Gregory's mum kindly made two, the traditional one with potatoes, onion ...