Wadowice is the hometown of Karol Wijtyla, the Polish Pope, the Pope of young people.
Wandering through the streets of the town, we find signs of the passage of the Blessed Sacrament everywhere. The church overlooks the main square and has the baptismal font where he was baptized and the painting of the Madonna dell'Aiuto Incessante that Wojtila himself crowned during his third visit to Poland.
Behind the church there is the small street on which the Karol's childhood home and his family. The house cannot be visited because it is still inhabited, but, in the building on the other side of the road, the rooms and furnishings have been faithfully reproduced, giving life to a real museum in which some documents are also exhibited written in his own hand by the young Karol, his own school reports and some family portraits.
It is said that Wojtyla's mother had expressed the desire to have a doctor son and a priest son, history has taught us that these wishes were both fulfilled since Woytila's brother was a well-known cardiologist and Karol's fate is known to all of us.
Wadowice is also famous for its numerous pastry shops, proliferated exponentially since the now Pope Wojtyla, leafing through an album of memories of his childhood, remembered the delicious cream cakes that he used to buy in a small shop in Piazza Del Mercato. Since then, those cream puff pastry desserts and a few drops of pure alcohol (which serves both to enhance the flavor and to preserve them) became the "papal sweets", Kremowki Papieskie, and every pastry shop in the country boasts its originality.
