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.Text from Microsoft Encarta
the monastery
the chapel
Black Madonna.
later style courtyard
Polish Women's costumes
Polish Men's costumes
