If you've travelled around Poland, we can say with a degree of certainty that you already know the country's top tourist attraction happens to be Kraków's market square, the largest medieval square in Europe! But we can also say with near certainty that you didn't know the longest market square i
By the mid-13th century, Jasło, known then as “Jasiel” or “Jasio
,” was the site of a powerful Cistercian Abbey. On April 23, 1366 AD, the village was granted “ Magdeburg rights ” by King Casimir III the Great, and in 1368 AD the king made a transaction with the Cistercian monks. In exchange for the town of Frysztak, the villages of Glinik and Kobyle, Jasło became royal towns.
According to Dlugosz in
Liber beneficiorum Dioecesis cracoviensis , the Carmelite brothers first came to Jasło in the mid-14th century. The church that we see standing today was built by “brothers Stanislaw Cielatko (Czelanthco), Sandomierz scholastic