{"id":14293,"date":"2023-09-24T21:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gorykaczawskie.pl\/trail-of-polichromy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-24T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:30:58","slug":"trail-of-polichromy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gorykaczawskie.pl\/en\/trail-of-polichromy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaczawski Trail of Medieval Polichromy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Middle Ages is an era that left a strong presence in the Kaczawskie Mountains and Foothills. It was a time when, thanks to the numerous colonization efforts of rulers, new cities and villages were founded here, and castles were built. One of the results of such development was the emergence of late Romanesque and Gothic churches in rapidly growing villages and towns. These churches, thanks to successive princely and knightly foundations, were adorned with wall paintings – polychromies<\/strong>. Due to the fact that polychromes were primarily created in churches, the vast majority of them had a religious character. They allowed the faithful to ‘see’ the stories and parables described in the Holy Scripture and the lives of saints. An exception to this is the Ducal Tower in Siedl\u0119cin<\/a>, where paintings were created depicting, among other things one of the Arthurian legends – the story of Lancelot of the Lake and his tragic love for Queen Guinevere.<\/p>\n

About 10 years ago, the idea of creating a network and mutual support for medieval monuments in the Kaczawskie Mountains and Foothills, where medieval polychromes are preserved, was born. At first, the collaboration focused on the aforementioned tower in Siedl\u0119cin and church of St. John the Baptist and St. Catherine of Alexandria in \u015awierzawa<\/a>. In these joint efforts, including organized hikes, Lubiechowa<\/a> and its beautiful church of St. Peter and St. Paul. In the following years, the idea of creating a professional trail that would connect all the sites where medieval paintings are located matured.<\/p>\n

In 2020 and 2021 – thanks to the financial support from The “Act Locally” Program<\/a> – Association the “Ducal Tower in Siedl\u0119cin” (along with partners – including
\nthe Regional Museum in Jawor<\/a>) films about the following were created:<\/p>\n