Jaśliska

Jaśliska - once a rich city-is now a village and the seat of the commune, located in the Low Beskids on the Jasiołka River. In 1366, Casimir the Great granted the settlement civic rights; at that time, it was called Hohenstadt, that is, a high town. Located on a trade route leading to Hungary, it developed rapidly, which probably prompted the Przemyśl bishops to acquire it as the diocese's property (1434).

As a center of episcopal goods, Jaśliska gained importance and wealth, which was served by numerous privileges, including the storage of wine. According to the parliamentary constitution of 1506, only Hungarian merchants could bring this wine to the Kingdom, who should then store it in designated places, e.g., Jaśliska and Dukla. It is probably to these needs that Jaśliska owes its vast, beautiful, and little-known Renaissance cellars.

Because it belonged to the property of the Przemyśl diocese, the town was for centuries a Latin island in the sea of Lemko Greek Catholicism. The proper momentum of the Roman temple has always been taken care of, which can be seen even today when we stand in the market square and look at the impressive silhouette of St. Catherine's late Baroque church from the middle of the 18th century.

The wars of the 17th century ended the development period, and the town never returned to its former glory, even and in the 1930s, it lost its municipal rights. Today it is a rather sleepy village, but with a large market square. The original wooden small-town buildings on the Wooden Architecture Trail have been preserved. It has also survived the unique atmosphere, reminiscent of the film's "magical realism".

No wonder then that Jaśliska was the location of the movie "Strawberry Wine" by Dariusz Jabłoński and "Corpus Christi" by Jan Komasa, and the former city became an important, if not the leading point of the Subcarpathian Film Trail.