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THE MUNICIPAL PUBLIC LIBRARY IN GORLICE

alicja — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 23:03:18 +0000

The Stanisław Gabryel Municipal Public Library owes its name to the man who became director there in 1948.

The oldest traces of librarianship in the region of Gorlice date from 1870. At the Society of Friends of Education in Gorlice existed a reading room which had 1500 works. One of the more important libraries acting before the first World War was the Library of the Military Society (Biblioteka Towarzystwa Kasynowego). In the year 1925 the Library of the Union of Craftsmen and Dealers was founded. It was active during the occupation and after the liberation it functioned until 1947. In the period between the wars yet other libraries existed, e.g. the Library of Jewish Women and the Lending Establishment of Julia Kankoferowna. The Library in Gorlice was registred in 1948. Stanisław Gabryel, MSc was appointed the Director of the District Library. The first period of activity of the library (1945-48) was devoted to the improvement of the accessibility of the library collections to the public. Large contributions were made by the first librariens: Wilhelmina Stachnik, Maria Muszyńska, MSc, Stanisław Gabryel, MSc and Maria Wojtasiewicz. In 1975, as a result of administrative reform, the institute in Gorlice was renamed the Municipal Public Library. In 1999 the library in Gorlice has been the first in Region of Małopolska to function as a District Library.

The Municipal Public Library in Gorlice has fulfilled the “Polska Cyfrowa Równych Szans” project, whose goal was to introduce digital communication among adult Poles aged 50 and above. Recently the library has also partaken in a project to build an integrated system for information and collection management for public libraries in Lesser Poland, co-funded by the EU as part of Lesser Poland’s Regional Operational Program for 2007-2013.

The Municipal Public Library in Gorlice is taking part in the “Biblioteka Miejscem Spotkań Wielu Kultur” project, which aims to develop a library model that integrates a diverse community, and to equip librarians with the knowledge required for multicultural endeavours undertaken with minority representatives. Current projects include: “Bitwa Gorlicka 2.0,” “Tablety w Twojej Bibliotece,” “Zakup nowości wydawniczych do bibliotek.” Apart from cultural undertakings, the Municipal Public Library in Gorlice is also involved in the following projects: a DKK youth club, the “Nad Lipą” readers’ club, Klub Małego Czytelnika (little readers’ club), “All of Poland Reads to Kids,” “Odjazdowy Bibliotekarz.”

sources:
www.mbpgorlice.info

THE GORLICE CULTURE CENTRE

alicja — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 22:59:14 +0000

The GCK is a self-governed cultural institution established in 1982. It organises festivals, reviews, concerts, and art workshops of national and international relevance.

The GCK’s activities have for many years been at the source of the city’s and region’s artistic events map, in response to the inhabitants’ cultural needs. Within the GCK’s organisational structure you can also find the Dušan Jurkovič Polish-Slovak House in Gorllice, which promotes the Polish-Slovak borderland’s cultural heritage, as well as six neighbourhood clubhouses located within the city. The Gorlice Culture Centre’s instructors also conduct music, drama, visual arts, and dance classes in Gorlice schools and kindergartens.

sources:
www.gck.gorlice.pl

THE LOWER BESKIDS

alicja — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 22:46:43 +0000

The lowest and broadest range of the Carpathian Mountains situated on Polish and Slovak land. National Parks and health resorts are located here.

Throughout the centuries, Wallachian shepherds intermixed with Ruthenian peoples and succumbed to Polish and Hungarian influences. This lead to the emergence of an ethnic group, which was named the Lemkos in the second half of the 19th century. In 1947 Operation Vistula began. Polish authorities relocated nearly all the Lemkos deep into Polish territory. Few managed to return only after 1956.

For over 30 years, during the summer, the Lower Beskids has been holding the Lemko Vatra (currently in Zdynia), which brings together the Lemko community from all over the world. The event’s program includes concerts, exhibitions, workshops, and meetings with authors. Its organiser is the Lemko Union. From the event’s website: “Dispersed over half a century ago to the four corners of the world, the indigenous inhabitants of Lemkovina, the Rusyns-Ukrainians, were supposed to disappear. They were supposed to dissipate in a sea of the majority. It is out of their overwhelming longing for the mountain Motherland that the idea for organising the Lemko Vatra has sprung.”

The Lower Beskids are the wildest mountain range in Poland. It is surprisingly serene; one does not encounter many tourists on the trails, and the forgotten valleys, once teeming with life, are completely empty today. However, the beautiful sights and tranquillity clash with the traces of an eventful history of the land and its inhabitants. Among the noteworthy Cultural landmarks are wooden Orthodox and Catholic churches, wayside shrines, deserted Lemko cottages, a fortified Renaissance manor and open-air museum in Szymbark, as well as World-War-I-era cemeteries that are testimony to the region’s bloody history, and the resting place of soldiers from Poland, Germany, Austria, Romania, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, and other countries.

sources:
www.pl.wikipedia.org
www.beskid-niski.pl
www.watrazdynia.pl

GORLICE | THE MUNICIPALITY

alicja — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 22:41:28 +0000

The Gorlice municipality is located in the south-east of the Małopolskie Voivodeship, between the Carpathian Foothills and the Lower Beskids, along the Ropa river.

The municipality comprises ten villages. Each one of them has its own story, relics (both secular and sacral), beauty of nature and landscape, traditions, places of cult, all of which are worth visiting, seeing, and remembering. You can reach them from Gorlice by car, bike, or on foot. It does not matter which direction you wander in from, as most of these villages are adjacent to the town.

The landscape is very diversified here, picturesque and attractive for tourists: a mountain-and-forest south part around Bielanka and the hilly remaining part, separated by the Ropa river valley. In the Gorlice municipality we can find everything which characterises the landscape, the climate, the architecture, the ethnography and the tradition of the entire Gorlice region, known as Ziemia Gorlicka – the Gorlice Land.

The Gorlice municipality is characterized by biculturalism, just like the entire region. Villages situated in the sub-cordillera near the Ropa river has been inhabited by Pogórzanie, or Uplanders, for centuries. Up to this day their traditions are cultivated in Bystra, Dominikowice, Kobylanka, Klęczany, Kwiatonowice, Ropica Polska, Stróżówka, Szymbark and Zagórzany. Bielanka village, on the other hand, is located in the west part of Beskid Niski. It is an old Lemko village and it literally constitutes a gateway to Lemkivshchyna, inhabited by the Lemko people – a group different both ethnically and denominationally from Podgórze Poles.

The municipality is also distinguished by its rich history – including its best-known event, the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive (1915), which resulted in breaking the Russian front and shaping post-war geopolitics.

What the tourists will find here is quiet, clean air, picturesque landscapes, hospitable inhabitants, and a number of agrotourism farms with traditional cooking based on ecological food. Tourist attractions include: the Szymbark castle, the sanctuary in Kobylanka, Orthodox churches in Bielanka and Owczary, the wooden church in Binarowa, the centre of lace-making and the old synagogue in Bobowa, the Lemko village Bartna, the Gothic church in Sękowa, the picturesque Ropa lagoon in Klimkówka, the Wapienne and Wysowa health resorts, the nature reserve in Jelenia Góra, the Wine Bicycle Trail (Winny Szlak Rowerowy), and the nature-educational trail that follows the Wooden Architecture Route. Convenient roads make it possible to travel to nearby Slovakia.

The Gorlice municipality was a partner of the project to create the Carpathian-Galician Petroleum Route, which was supposed to save the history of the cradle of the world petroleum industry in Gorlice region from oblivion. In the municipality there is a Culture Centre which organises folk events in accordance with the traditional rite calendar.

sources:
www.gmina.gorlice.pl

GORLICE | THE CITY

alicja — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 22:31:36 +0000

Gorlice awaits discoverers. Those who find themselves here know that they will return to the capital of the Lower Beskids more than once. Gorlice is an excellent haven for several-day trips beyond daily routine, which will allow you to find places where the flow of time is slowed down.

Tourists in Gorlice will be treated to strolls along the narrow streets of the old town and the vast park. One can spend their time for leisure actively – the city offers an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, during winter an ice rink is available, and should the weather fail – the town’s atmospheric bars and restaurants are open. The city has wonderful gastronomy and hotels. In Gorlice you can find the place where the first kerosene street lamp was lit, come across the traces of work of scientist and pioneer Ignacy Łukasiewicz, and visit the open-air petroleum museum at the Magdalena estate.

When in Gorlice, visit: the Karwcjan Manor (15th century), the neo-Renaissance Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the tenement houses around the town square (18th-19th century), the City Hall, the PTTK Museum, the Minor Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary (designed by M.F. Pavoni, with an altar by Marconi and painting by Jan Styka), the Orthodox church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, the wayside shrines on Węgierska and Krzywa streets.

In Gorlice one can visit the Necropolises that commemorate the heroes of the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive – the largest Eastern Front battle of World War I. Gorlice alone holds five war cemeteries (the powiat holds several dozen) that are testimony to the bloody struggles from almost a century ago. Numerous souvenirs from those days can also be seen at the Regional PTTK Museum.

sources:
www.gorlice.pl