Gorlice poviat - Powiat gorlicki

	Gorlice poviat; in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Country	Poland
Capital city	Gorlice
Surface	966.46 km²
Population	109 072
Tongue	Polish
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Gorlice poviat

Gorlice poviat - poviat in Poland in in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of the then administrative reform. Its seat is in the city Gorlice.

Municipalities

The poviat consists of:

town commune: Gorlice
urban-rural communes: Biecz, Bobowa
rural communes: Gorlice, Lipinki, Loose, Moszczenica, Oil, Sękowa, Uście Gorlickie

Three towns of the poviat have municipal rights. These are: Biecz, Bobowa and Gorlice. The poviat is inhabited by 109,072 people, the area is 966.46 km², so the population density is 112.9 people / km². The city's inhabitants are 35,922 people, so the urbanization is 31.29%. In the Gorlice poviat there is a place called Warsaw.

Dear

There are, among others, national road 28 and voivodeship roads 977, 979, 981, 993.

Neighboring counties

Historical monuments

Palace and park complex. in Siary The author of the photo Zanfra

Biecz. House of "Zbója Becza". The author of the photo Olerys

Przysłup, the church of St. Michael the Archangel, the author of the photo: Henryk Bielamowicz

Banica, the church complex of Kosma and Damian, author of the photo: KOWANA Anna Kowalczyk

There are many centuries-old wooden churches and churches in the Gorlice poviat, 5 of which have been entered on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list: Sękowa, Binarowa, Brunary, Flowering and Owczary. Tourists are delighted with the monuments of Biecz, one of the oldest cities in south-eastern Poland. In Biecz, in the Corpus Christi church, we can admire a polychrome designed and made by Włodzimierz Tetmajer, and in the main altar the painting "The Descent from the Cross" painted at Michelangelo's school. One of the few pyramid-shaped tombs in Europe is located in Zagórzany near Gorlice. The Skrzyński family is buried there, including Aleksander Skrzyński - the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of the Second Polish Republic. In Bobowa, we can find a trace of Jewish culture: a synagogue and a cemetery with an ohel of the famous tzaddik Salomon ben Natan Halberstam with 200 preserved matzevot.

Battle of the First World War

In 1915, the greatest battle of World War I on the eastern front took place near Gorlice, and Gorlice was called the "Little Verdun". The remnants of those events are nearly 100 war cemeteries with unique architecture, where about 25,000 soldiers of different nationalities are buried (including Poles, fighting against each other in three partitioning armies).

Border crossings to Slovakia

In the Gorlice poviat, there are 4 former border crossings with Slovakia. All border crossings from Poland to Slovakia were abolished on December 21, 2007 due to the accession of both countries to the Schengen area, and border crossing is allowed anywhere.