Raków

The town was founded in 1567 by the castellan of Żarnów - Jan Sienieński - a follower of Calvin's science.

It gave the inhabitants numerous privileges and allowed religious freedom. Thanks to this, craftsmen, doctors, and the nobility started to flock to Raków. The most prominent representatives of Arian thought, the so-called Polish brothers. The Rakowska Academy was established, bringing together outstanding personalities from the world of science. In 1638, a wave of the Counter-Reformation led to the decline of the previous functions of Raków and its fall.

Currently, you can only admire the traces of its former glory. One of them is the church of st. Trinity, built on the site of the former Arian church, a small stone building from the 17th century - the apartment of the minister of the Polish Brothers, the Church of the Reformed st. Anna from 1641 and several houses from the Arian times.