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Rabka

Country:
Poland
State:
Lesser Poland
City:
Rabka
Type of Location:
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Air

Airports nearest to Rabka are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Nowy Targ Airport (distanced approximately 18 km)
Krakow Balice Airport (distanced approximately 53 km)
Pobiednik Wielki Airport (distanced approximately 55 km)
Zar Airport (distanced approximately 55 km)
Tatry Airport (distanced approximately 64 km)

By Train

Moreover by Rabka railway line runs No.104 (Chabowka-Nowy Sacz) connecting Zakopane from Krakow and Tarnow.The town's railway station Rabka Zdroj and station closed Rabka Zaryte.

By Road

By western ends of Rabka runs the national road No.7 and the international road E77.In addition beginning in Rabka no national road No.47 and runs the northern districts of the national road No.28.

Key places to visit
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Wladyslaw Orkan Museum, Rabcio Puppet Theatre, Museum of the Order of Smile, Spa Park in Rabka

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Places to Visit

Church of St. Mary Magdalene

located at 8th Street Wladyslaw Ocran Built in the style of Gothic, in the years 1902-1908.For the construction of the church began as soon as the old wooden church (now the Museum Orkan) became insufficient for the growing parish.Merit in the construction of the then parish priest put Fr. James Zych the native of Chocholow and vicar Fr. St. Kwiatkowski, a refugee from Konigsberg.The construction lead architect Slawomir Odrzywolski.Temples consecrated in 1923 by Fr. Bishop Anatol Nowak, suffragan of Krakow.In 1929 the church was beautiful murals done by a painter Giebultowskiego of Auschwitz.

Wladyslaw Orkan Museum

a museum housed in Rabka in the historic wooden church with a mid-seventeenth century.In the years 1929-1936 the church was converted at the initiative of the Polish Tatra Society in Museum.Wladyslaw Orkan was held to name the writer's personal consent.The museum is located in the tower-bell tower of the historic church.The facility was officially opened in August 1936.In five rooms arranged thematically gathered items from the nineteenth and early twentieth century showing the old world of mountaineers inhabiting Beskydy.Exhibits are devoted to art, ubiorowi, crafts and rural economy.Also gathered musical instruments, toys and photographs of Wladyslaw Orkan and his mother as well as two hand-painted pastels writer.

Rabcio Puppet Theatre

is a Polish state puppet theater in Rabka founded in 1949 year.Rabcio was created as an amateur theater for children in sanatoria in Rabka.Stage was initiated by Stanislaw Raczko working as a teacher in the department of Education in Complex Sanatorium antituberculous Rabka then led by Dr.Stanislaw Tarnawskiego.The first Stanislawa Raczko colleagues were plastic Olgierd Sawicki, who designed a portable stage and Biedron and Wladyslaw Stanislaw Ciezadlik the first puppet builders, designers, scenery, costumes and props artist.The inauguration took place in the Theatre 12 November 1949 year, the Children's Sanatorium in Rabka.Adaptation of the fairy tale staged by Maria Konopnicka "the Dwarfs and the Orphan Mary", directed by Stanislawa Raczko with decorations Olgierd Sawicki, Sophia Konopczyny music.

Museum of the Order of Smile

the world's only medals awarded to adults by children is in Rabka in the Family Theme Park "Rabkoland".When the 1996 International Chapter of the Order of Smile decided to convene the first World Rally Knights of the Order of Smile in its place chose Rabka.Rabka known as a spa for children since the late nineteenth century was also reported by the chapter to the Governor Nowosadecki a motion to grant the title "City of Children of the World".Knights rally in Rabka was held on 1-2 June 1996.At that time the building of the Upper Silesian Rehabilitation Centre Street Dietl 2, inaugurated the Museum of the Order of the Smile.Has officially opened by Jolanta Kwasniewska wife of then president and Cezary Lezenski Chancellor of International Chapter of the Order of the Smile.

Spa Park in Rabka

is a park in Rabka in the intersection of Wladyslaw Orkan, Parkowa, New World and Jordan Avenue.The park was founded about 1864 years, by then owner Rabka Julian Zubrzycki.Park expanded and embellished the next owner of the spa town of Kazimierz Kaden.Currently, the park occupies an area of 30 hectares and is one of the largest in Galicia.The park includes: graduation tower, two fountains, historical villa "Star" (now in ruins), a hospital cardiology them.Jozef Dietl, cafe Parkowa cemetery of Soviet soldiers and the western side of the park, the old municipal cemetery there is a war cemetery of the First World War.

Right Time to Visit

March - September

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