Czarnolas cz is a village

Village

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 in the administrative district of Gmina Policzna

Gmina Policzna

Gmina Policzna is a rural gmina in Zwoleń County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Policzna, which lies approximately 11 kilometres north-east of Zwoleń and 96 km south-east of Warsaw.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is...

, within Zwoleń County

Zwolen County

Zwoleń County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Zwoleń, which lies ...

, Masovian Voivodeship

Masovian Voivodeship

-Administrative division:Masovian Voivodeship is divided into 42 counties : 5 city counties and 37 "land counties"...

, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north-east of Zwoleń

Zwolen

Zwoleń is a town in Poland, in Mazowsze Voivodeship, about 30 km east of Radom. It is the capital of Zwoleń County. Population is 8048 .- People :* Stanisław Chomętowski* Jan Karol Tarło* Stanisław Tarło...

 and 100 km (62 mi) south-east of Warsaw

Warsaw

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The village's name roughly translates to "black forest". In 1975-98 it was in Radom Voivodeship

Radom Voivodeship

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Czarnolas is famous as the residence of the Polish Renaissance poet, Jan Kochanowski

Jan Kochanowski

Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...

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The village belonged to the Kochanowski family for a century, then frequently changed owners. In 1830, on the site of the poet's manor house

Manor house

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, which had burned down, a Neogothic chapel

Chapel

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 was erected. In 1961, in the Jabłonowski family's 19th-century manor house, within a picturesque garden, was established the Jan Kochanowski Museum, before which stands a statue

Statue

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of the poet by M. Welter.