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The three crosses at the Three Crosses’ Mountain commemorate the plague, which decimated the population of Kazimierz Dolny in 1708.
Text engraved on the central cross says:
OD POWIETRZA, GŁODU, OGNIA I WOJNY ZACHOWAJ NAS PANIE
(Lord, save us from air, famine, fire and war.)
These are words taken from the Polish Trisagion prayer.
You may hear it sung here.

In this supplication POWIETRZE means deathly air - that's how people perceived plagues in those days.
Now people are singing it again...

Kazimierz Dolny is a considerable tourist attraction as one of the most beautifully situated little towns in Poland. It enjoyed its greatest prosperity in the 16th and the first half of the 17th century, due to the trade in grain conducted along the Vistula. It became an economic backwater after that trade declined, and this freeze in economic development enabled the town to preserve its Renaissance urban plan and appearance. Since the 19th century it has become a popular holiday destination, attracting artists and summer residents.

I was In Kazimierz Dolny in 2013 and went up the Three Crosses' Mountain on a sleepy workday afternoon in September. There were almost no people there. But from Friday till Sunday the place was packed with tourists going there mostly for sensational view of the town and the Vistula river. There was even a queue of those waiting to go to the top. I retreated.

That's how the town is deserted now. (click for a Youtube video taken this weekend, you'll see the mountain)

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