Benedictine Abbey in September 2nd, 2009 Quite far from the city center, traveling along the Vistula, you can get to Tyniec. Once podkrakowska village, and since 1973 part of Krakow, famous mainly located in the Benedictine monastery there. You can get there by car (about 12 miles), public transportation (the railway station and Krakow Central Bus Station - bus or tram to Ronda Grunwald, then bus 112 to the center Tyniec), cycling (along the river, an interesting route drawn by a dam), by boat from Castle ( ship on the Vistula ).
The Benedictine Abbey was founded in 1044 year by Casimir the Restorer, which makes this monastery is one of the oldest in Poland. In the eleventh century, a three-nave Romanesque basilica and monastery buildings. 200 years later the area was fenced by a stone wall with towers. In the thirteenth and fourteenth century the abbey was partially destroyed by the Tartars and the Czech army. Over the next centuries, the abbey was extended, first in the Gothic style and Baroque. Wars fought on Polish territory in the seventeenth century Tyniec also not spared. Soon, however, damage has been repaired. In the second half of the eighteenth century, the monastery became a stronghold of the Bar Confederation. After the first partition of Polish monastery fell into the hands of the Austrian authorities, who in 1816 made the appeal of the abbey. In 1831, the buildings in Tyniec consumed by fire, and the convent of more than 100 years fell into disrepair. Only in 1939 the monks returned to the buildings in Tyniec. In so awkwardly that it was two months before the start of World War II. After the war began the process of rebuilding the monastery. In 1968 the church. Peter and Paul in Tyniec returned to the dignity of an abbey.
Being in Tyniec pay a visit to a small grocery store with products. Here we find such wine, liqueurs, meads, jams, teas, syrups, juices, dried fruits, all built on the original, centuries-old Benedictine monastery recipe.
