Camaldolese Monastery in Bielany
Hilltop hermitage of solitary monks' cottages around a Baroque church, its gate closed to women all but twelve days a year.
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This guide to the Camaldolese Monastery in Kraków opens with a drunken promise made at a 1603 dinner table, when a nobleman who refused to sell his wooded hill above the Vistula ended up giving it away over a feast his wife had arranged. It follows the silent hermits who moved onto Silver Mountain afterward, each keeping a solitary house and garden, meeting the others only for mass and for talk on three fixed days a week. The nobleman who funded the paradise is buried in the crypt by the church door, dressed in a monk's habit. Look for his grave as you pass through toward the church.
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