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Wyżyna Krakowsko-Częstochowska (Cracow-Czestochowa Upland) also called Wyżyna Krakowska-Wieluńska (Cracow-Wieluń Upland), or simply Jura is one of the most beautiful remote parts of our country.
That 160 km long range stretches between the area of Wieluń and Cracow its average width not exceeding 20 km.
In its northern part, all the way to Czestochowa, the Jura landscape changes rapidly with monadnock rocks present among fields and meadows. Some of them are topped with towers, castle walls, strongholds of jurassic watchtowers called "eagle`s nests".
WHY THE NAME "JURA"?
Jurassic formations (approx. 200 million years ago) are prevailing in the entire upland area. The local rocks are built of fossil remains of species that once populated the sea present in that area (!).
Thanks to the wonderful and numerous fossils Jura is frequently visited by legions of geologists. The most abundantly occurring fossils are ammonites.
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