Welcome to Kasina Wielka

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Welcome to Kasina Wielka
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Kasina Wielka in a nutshell

• Province Malopolska
• County Limanowa
• Commune Mszana Dolna
• Height 480-660 metres altitude
• Population 2900

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Location

• Kasina Wielka is located in Beskid Wyspowy,
  between Snieznica, Lubogoszcz, Cwilin and
  Wierzbanowska Góra. Through the village flows a
  river Kasinianka.

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Kasina Wielka in the photos
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An old school building in Kasina Wielka
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View of Lubogoszcz
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View of Snieznica
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Regional band Kasinianie-Zagórzanie

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Historic church in Kasina Wielka outside
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Railway station
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Chapel on Snieznica

Outside
Inside
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New church in Kasina Wielka
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Art Gallery Tribute to the Carpathians
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Famous people from Kasina Wielka
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Justyna Kowalczyk

• Justyna Kowalczyk is a Polish cross country
  skier who has been competing since 2000. She is
  one of the most successful cross country skiers
  of all time, being the only skier in the history
  with victories in all the most important sport
  events, so called "The Big Crown" Olympic Games,
  World Championships, World Cup and Tour de Ski.

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• Lilian Seymour Tulasiewicz
• polish writer, citizen of two homelands, the
  doctor of English, MA in Illinois state law,
  correspondent, translator in American embassy,
  novelist and author of ten novels in Polish.

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Lilian Seymour-Tulasiewicz

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Schools in Kasina Wielka

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The primary school is named after

Maria Sklodowska-Curie
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Maria Sklodowska-Curie

• Marie Sklodowska-Curie was a French-Polish
  physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering
  research on radioactivity. She was the first
  woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win
  in two fields, and the only person to win in
  multiple sciences. She was also the first female
  professor at the University of Paris (La
  Sorbonne), and in 1995 became the first woman to
  be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in
  Paris.

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The secondary school is named after

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
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Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski

• Stefan Wyszynski was a Polish prelate of the
  Roman Catholic Church. He served as the bishop of
  Lublin from 1946 to 1948, archbishop of Warsaw
  and archbishop of Gniezno from 1948 to 1981.
  Appointed cardinal on 12 January 1953 by Pope
  Pius XII, he assumed the title of Primate of
  Poland. Stefan Wyszynski was often called the
  Primate of the Millennium.

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Banner of secondary school in Kasina Wielka