Zinar Castle

At Bl. Bronisława in Zwierzyniec, you can admire a wooden, shingled church. According to accounts, there used to be a pre-Slavic temple here - a gontyna.

The origins of the Christian chapel in this place are unknown. The present wooden church, one of the few monuments of this type in Krakow, was erected on an octagonal plan in the 17th century. It has been included in the list of objects of the Małopolska Wooden Architecture Trail.

People who died during numerous epidemics were buried in the cemetery around the church. The merciless "plague air" has attacked the communities of larger cities over the centuries. In Krakow, the cholera epidemic took the most serious form, which hit the city in 1707, decimating the local inhabitants. Those infected were transported outside the then Kraków - most often to Błonia - where they were to wait for recovery in hastily built huts; however, it took their death far more often. The dead were then transported here, to Sikornik hill (today called the hill of blessed Bronisława), and buried in deep pits, covered with lime - the only available disinfectant. After several decades, their remains were moved to another cemetery, next to the nearby Church of the Holy Savior.