Churches and monasteries
wooden church of 1542 with six Baroque altars
Museums
farm with sheep, a shepherds' hut and a settlement of relocated wooden cottages, with workshops and concerts
Churches and monasteries
mountain chapel of stone and wood, begun in secret in 1971 by the Butorzonka clearing
Things to do in Cięcina: a wooden church from 1542, the Sopki Stopki open-air farm and a chapel on the Butorzonka clearing in the Żywiec Beskids.
Cięcina lies in the Węgierska Górka municipality, in the heart of the Żywiec Beskids. Its three places share highland tradition: from a wooden church to a farm with rescued cottages.
St Catherine's Church was built in 1542 as a branch chapel and has been extended several times since. It is a wooden monument of the Silesian-Lesser Poland type, stands on the Wooden Architecture Trail and has baroque furnishings with six altars. A Peter's pence record from 1358 already mentions a church in Cięcina, though it is unknown whether it means the present one.
The Sopki Stopki Open-Air Museum is a natural farm with sheep and horses where a small settlement of old wooden houses is growing. “Sopki” are the old small wooden highland cottages, and Stopka is the family name of those who run the farm. Workshops and events take place there, and it also suits a rainy day.
The Chapel of Our Lady of Częstochowa on the Butorzonka clearing near Magura began as a small shrine carved in 1965 on a spruce tree. Residents of Cięcina built it in the 1970s.
Old small wooden highland cottages of the Żywiec Beskids.
From a small shrine hung on a tree, carved in 1965 by a resident thankful for the recovery of his health.
