Wizyty wybranych głów Państwa Polskiego w Wadowicach
Visits of the heads of the Polish State in Wadowice in the years 1915-2019
Author(s): Andrzej NowakowskiSubject(s): History, Diplomatic history, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Wadowickie Centrum Kultury
Keywords: Wadowice; visit of head of state; period 1915-2019;
Summary/Abstract: In the period 1915-2019 several heads of the Polish State hosted in Wadowice. Generally they held title of the president. Some of the distinguished figures (e.g. Józef Piłsudski, Lech Wałęsa) who passed by Wadowice, in the later time discharged duties of the supreme power in the state. Ignacy Mościcki was the first president who visited Wadowice (1929). Most visits was noted after political changes in Poland (1989), in 3rd Republic of Poland. Over the period 1955-2019 further presidents of Republic of Poland: Lech Wałęsa (1995), Lech Kaczyński (2006 I 2009), Bronisław Komorowski (2014) and Andrzej Duda (2019) hosted in the town by the Skawa river. Those visits raised the rank and prestige of Wadowice in all country, as papal town with itself history and contemporary active community.
Journal: Wadoviana. Przegląd historyczno-kulturalny
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 21-41
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Polish, Estonian