History of Bolesławiec
In 1190. Fr. Boleslaw the Tall founded a settlement. Town privileges were given less than a hundred years later. Residents engaged in pottery, which Bolesławiec became a powerful center of ceramic production. The Thirty Years War and World War II did not spare the city, destroyed many valuable monuments.
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