Kapliczka Zbójnicka, Tatra National Park

The chapel of zbójnicka - a chapel on the clearing Stare Kościeliska in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located just by the road leading through the valley, right at the beginning of the clearing, on its western side, at an altitude of about 960 m. On foot from Kir 25 min. According to legend it was founded by bandits. In fact, it was founded by miners and steelworkers who once worked in the Tatra Mountains in the extraction and melting of iron ore. In Old Kościeliski was then a steel mill, housing estate, an inn.

The chapel is made of brick and has a shingled dome, the inscription "Ave Marya" and mining emblems - two crossed hammers. It is surrounded by a wooden fence. In the left post of the entrance gate of the fence there is a carved silhouette of a robber, in the right one of a miner. Next to the shrine there are two larch trees. At a distance of 4 meters from one of them grows a planted Douglas fir - a species of coniferous tree that does not appear in the wild here, originating from North America. Opposite the shrine, on the other side of the road, there are tables and benches for tourists.