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Bełdno

Bełdno
Village
Bełdno is located in Poland
Bełdno
Bełdno
Coordinates: 49°49′30″N 20°24′0″E / 49.82500°N 20.40000°E / 49.82500; 20.40000
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lesser Poland
County Bochnia
Gmina Żegocina
Population 273
Website www.zegocina.pl (in Polish)

Bełdno [ˈbɛwdnɔ] is a village and sołectwo in the administrative district of Gmina Żegocina, within Bochnia County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Żegocina, 19 km (12 mi) south of Bochnia, and 43 km (27 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.

The village was established in 1398 according to the Magdeburg rights. These days it is the smallest of the subdivisions of the gmina.

By the road to Żegocina there is a wayside shrine to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. It contains a statue of the Virgin that was rescued from the main hall of Kraków station during the upheavals of September 1939.

Coordinates: 49°49′30″N 20°24′0″E / 49.82500°N 20.40000°E / 49.82500; 20.40000



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