Bierzwnik : 3 Days on the Cistercian Route

Bierzwnik : 3 Days on the Cistercian Route

The Post-Cistercian Heritage Preservation Association in Bierzwnik met late September this year to discuss all of the activities taken by the Association during the last summer holiday, the time when the area had been most frequently visited by tourists. Our Association takes pride in being one of the organisers of the annual festive “3 Days on the Cistercian Route”. This year, during the festive we hosted for the third time the International Cloister Products Fair. It started with a workshop led by the members of the orders taking part in the event (from Poland, Germany and Belorussia). The festive “3 Days on the Cistercian Route” has already become an integral part of the programme of the events taking place on the Cistercian Route in Poland. The members of our Association, together with students of local schools and the citizens of Bierzwnik every year prepare a play referring to the history of the Cistercians in Bierzwnik. The other part of the festive was a photo display “Impressions from the European Cistercian Route” (photo 1) presenting photographs taken by Barbara Stolpiak and Teresa Swiercz during their visits to Cistercian abbeys in Austria, France, Germany, Portugal, and Sweden. The display is still to be seen in the cloisters of the monastery in Bierzwnik till December this year.