Gora Kalwaria

Gora Kalwaria is a metropolis on the Vistula River inside the Mazovian Voivodship, Poland, approximately 25 kilometers southeast of Warsaw. It has a population of about 11,000. The city has significance for both Catholic Christians and Hasidic Jews. Originally, its name become definitely Gora changed in 1670 to Nowa Jerozolima New Jerusalem and inside the 18^th century to Gora Kalwaria Calvary Mountain. The village of Gora already existed within the 13^th century. Completely destroyed at some stage in a Swedish career called the Deluge, in 1666, it has become the assets of Stefan Wierzbowski, Bishop of Poznan, who determined to found a brand new city at the ruins.

His plan become to build a Calvary a religious center committed to passion performs and services, which became famous inside the early current Poland. He turned into recommended via the reality that the nearby panorama resembled that of the Holy Land. In 1670, the metropolis changed into renamed Nowa Jerozolima, granted city rights and creation paintings kicked off. The urban design was primarily based on medieval maps of Jerusalem, and the road grid formed a Latin move.