Forest clearing Bielnik and the cemetery of the Soviet POWs in Holy Cross

A modest path departing from the main trail leads to a glade hidden among the Fir Forest on the northern side of Łysa Góra.

According to tradition, the name of the clearing comes from the canvases that the monks put up here on sunny days. This place is now evidence of the tragic history of the Świętokrzyskie abbey. There is a cemetery of about 6,000 soviet prisoners of war murdered by the Nazis in an extermination camp organized in the monastery in 1941-1942.