Wadowice : Poland
Culture and Sightseeing
Days of Wadowice (Dni Wadowic) are held every May-June. The feats starts every May 18 to commemorate the birth of Karol Wojty?a
Museum of the Holy Father Family House in the native home of Pope John Paul II collects remainders and relics about Karol Wojty?a and his family.
Parochial church – the Virgin Mary’s Offertory Minor Basilica – 15th century, rebuilt in 18th century
Ko?cielna 4 street, an 18th century house
Classicist “Miko?aj” manor – 19th century, named after mayor Miko?aj Komorowski
Municipal Museum of Marcin Wadowita
Pope John Paul II square with 19th century burgher houses
Monument to Emil Zegad?owicz, a writer who described the area of Wadowice in many of his books
Notable people
Marcin Wadowita Martinus Vadovius Campinus (born 1567), Polish teologist, philosopher and deacon of the Krakw Academy
Emil Lask (b. 1875), philosopher
Berta Lask (b. 1878), writer
Ada Sari (Jadwiga Schayer, b. 1886) opera singer and actress
Godwin Brumowski (born 1889), Austro-Hungarian WWI fighter ace and air general
Karol Wojty?a (1920-2005), Polish priest and bishop of Krakw, 1978-2005 the Roman Catholic Pope (as John Paul II)
Rafa? Bujnowski (b. 1974), painter
