pl, 19 September 2025
The subject of this year's European Cultural Heritage Days is the Masonic Heritage and Architecture Trails.
This issue is devoted to the French-language website https://route33.eu/.
Below we present her translation.
Objects and their symbols constitute elements of common and unifying language for masons. This way so aims to discover the past of this language. The managers of the visited places collaborated to present a common and first European identity as part of artistic, academic, tourist and educational projects.
The way covers about 30 places: temples, libraries, private collections, museums, theatres, household houses.
Most of the past of masonry is rooted in Europe. 1 of the key aspects of this way is to recognise the crucial contribution of tradition and any cultural diversity through the essential interdisciplinary dialog covering the period from the 17th to the 21st century.
Masonery is an integral part of European civilization, to which it has been making a unique and lasting contribution for 300 years. The cultural way program is an innovative and attractive way to present this extraordinary communicative to a wider audience.
The Masonic heritage in Europe, represented point-by-point across Europe, is conducive to the discovery of a circumstantial craft, as well as designation of the crucial function the Masons played in the past of the continent.
The dimension of these trails is very diverse, any of which include only 1 city, while others intersect the region, the country, and even respective countries, thus gaining an global dimension.
The following is simply a translation from https://route33.eu/logne/ on a proposal to visit the sites active in the event related to the freeland in our country:
In Poland, the road leads first to the library of the University of Poznań, where you can see 80,000 Masonic works in various languages, including 2400 in French, dating from 1730, stolen during planet War II by Germans.
Then the Tarnowskie Mountains, included on the UNESCO list, whose cultural heritage, thanks to the town hall, which recovered objects from 2 Masonic lodges destroyed by the Nazis, was converted into a museum. In this silver-rich masonry region, it was highly developed. In the same city, in a beautiful rebuilt castle, there is simply a Masonic museum and a temple with Masonic equipment, where the large Lodge of France could meet for its work. You can spend a fewer days there due to the fact that there is simply a hotel and restaurant.
In the same region, on the Czech border, in the tiny town of USTROŃ, there are Masonic symbols on the facade of 1 of the houses. There is simply a Masonic temple and library containing 2,000 volumes.
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In the 18th century, as in most countries, the masonry developed rapidly in Poland thanks to the French language utilized by Polish elites, fascinated by Masonic ideas.
In 1742, the Marshal of Poland and Lithuania founded the St. John's Lodge.
In 1744 the French established in Warsaw the "Trois Frères" box.
In 1778 in Warsaw the first lodge of the large East of France was established, and in 1783 the large East of Poland was created.
In 1793, Poland disappeared from the map, divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria. Many Masons hoped to support France in the liberation of Poland after the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw.
From the Napoleonic period comes the national anthem written by Mason Józef Wybicki, who says: "March, march Dąbrowski (mason, general Napoleon) from Italian land to Poland".
In 1918 Poland regained its freedom, which lasted until the German attack and then the russian Union in 1939.
Since 1989, Polish freedom has been functioning freely thanks to SOLIDARITY.
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Please contact the large Lodge of Culture and Spirituality, which is the Polish co-organizer of European Cultural Heritage Days:
