Wadowice County
Wadowice County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: powiat with 160,000 residents
- Description: powiat of Poland
- Also known as: “powiat wadowicki”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Father John Paul II Family Home, Wadowice and Basilica of the Presentation of Mary.
Holy Father John Paul II Family Home, Wadowice
Museum
The Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice, Poland was the family home and birthplace of Karol Józef Wojtyła, who was elected Pope John Paul II in 1978, and canonised after his death.
Basilica of the Presentation of Mary
Church
Photo: Mariusz Swornóg, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
The Minor Basilica of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary or, simply, the Basilica of the Presentation of Mary is a Catholic minor basilica at the city of Wadowice, Lesser Poland.
Saint Joseph church in Wadowice
Monastery
Photo: Mariusz Swornóg, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
Saint Joseph church in Wadowice is a monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wadowice and Chocznia.
Wadowice
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Wadowice is a small town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland. It's best known as the 1920 birthplace of Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II. Wadowice and the nearby monastery at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska have become pilgrimage sites, easily reached on a day-trip from Kraków.
Chocznia
Village
Chocznia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wadowice, within Wadowice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. The village was first mentioned in 1355, as a private village having its own 5-year old Catholic parish. Chocznia is situated 4 km southwest of Wadowice County.
Tomice
Village
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Tomice is a village in Wadowice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Tomice.
Wadowice County
- Location: Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Wadowice County” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wadowice barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Вадавіцкі павет”
- Bulgarian: “Вадовицки окръг”
- Bulgarian: “Вадовишки окръг”
- Catalan: “Powiat de Wadowice”
- Cebuano: “Powiat wadowicki”
- Chinese: “Wadowice Kūn”
- Chinese: “瓦多維采縣”
- Czech: “Okres Wadowice”
- Dutch: “powiat wadowicki”
- Dutch: “Powiat Wadowicki”
- Dutch: “Wadowice”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Wadowice”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Wadowice”
- Esperanto: “powiat wadowicki”
- Estonian: “Wadowice maakond”
- Finnish: “Wadowicen piirikunta”
- French: “Powiat de Wadowice”
- French: “powiat wadowicki”
- French: “Wadowice”
- German: “powiat wadowicki”
- German: “Powiat Wadowicki”
- Greek: “Πόβιατ Βαντοβίτσε”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ודוביצה”
- Indonesian: “Powiat Wadowice”
- Irish: “Contae Wadowice”
- Italian: “distretto di Wadowice”
- Italian: “Distretto di Wadowice”
- Italian: “powiat wadowicki”
- Japanese: “ヴァドヴィツェ郡”
- Javanese: “Powiat Wadowice”
- Korean: “바도비체군”
- Latvian: “Powiat wadowicki”
- Latvian: “Vadovices apriņķis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wadowicki Kūn”
- Persian: “شهرستان وادوویتسه”
- Polish: “powiat wadowicki”
- Polish: “Powiat wadowicki”
- Portuguese: “condado de Wadowice”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Wadowice”
- Portuguese: “powiat wadowicki”
- Romanian: “Județul Wadowice”
- Romanian: “Powiatul Wadowice”
- Russian: “Вадовицкий повет”
- Russian: “Вадовицкий повят”
- Sardinian: “distretto de Wadowice”
- Slovak: “Powiat wadowicki”
- South Azerbaijani: “وادوویتسه”
- Spanish: “condado de Wadowice”
- Spanish: “Condado de Wadowice”
- Spanish: “powiat wadowicki”
- Turkish: “Wadowice ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Wadowice İlçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Вадовицький повіт”
- Vietnamese: “Wadowicki”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wadowice County”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wadowice”
- Welsh: “Sir Wadowice”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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