These places are visited by people from all over Poland every year. They believe that the water in them has a special power

There are about 120 springs with water in Poland, which, according to some, has unique (usually healing) properties. They are usually created in places where saints stayed or the Mother of God appeared. The most popular of them can be found in Łagiewniki or Licheń. Whether you are a believer or not, these places are often delightful in themselves. Where else is worth a drive?

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Krasnobród chapel on the water. They say it heals the body and the broken heart

Krasnobród is located in the Lubelskie Voivodeship and is visited by crowds of tourists and believers every year. It houses a spring, which is attributed with unique properties, and an unusual shrine of revelations on the water. In its place, on August 5, 1640, one of the inhabitants was to see the Mother of God, who healed him. Six years later, the original chapel was built there. According to some legends, it was funded by Maria Zamoyska (Marysieńka Sobieskiego), whom she also cured.

The current chapel dates from the 18th century. In the 19th century it was extended, and in 2008 a general renovation was carried out and its former splendor was restored. A source with healing properties is located under the building, slightly lower. His “powers” are to be confirmed not only by church documentation from four centuries ago, but also by numerous cases currently recorded by the parish archives. According to some, the spring also heals a broken heart.

Source of St. Świerada in Tropie. It is located in a former hermitage

Tropie is a small town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is located about 100 km from Krakow and houses one of the oldest Romanesque churches in this part of Poland, the Romanesque church of Saints Andrzej Świerad and Benedict. Its location is especially noteworthy, as it was built on a several-meter-high rock just above Lake Czchowskie. Not far from the building (less than 1 km), in the forest, we can find a spring, which St. Świerad. He was a hermit living in a nearby hermitage and a teacher of St. Benedict. The source is eagerly visited by pilgrims who pray and drink water by it, because they believe that it has healing powers. Above it, since 1971, the figure of the saint carved in stone has been rising.