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Wieś Złoty Potok
Diabelskie Mosty (the Devil's Bridges) is a group of three limestone rocks between 15 and 18 metres high, hidden in woodland by regional road 793 between Żarki and Janów. They lie within the Parkowe nature reserve on the Janów Plain, part of the Częstochowa Upland and the Eagles' Nests Landscape Park. The name was given by the poet Zygmunt Krasiński, who often walked this part of Złoty Potok.
The rocks have long been a popular climbing ground, with around twenty-five routes graded from IV+ to VI.5+ on the Kurtyka scale. Visitors without gear walk the paths around the base of the tors; a rock shelter sits in the upper part of the group. A visit takes a few dozen minutes.
Local lore explains the name with the story of a devil who, while watching for Twardowski on the Moon, fell into a crevice between the rocks and got stuck. To avoid a repeat, he conjured bridges over the clefts — hence the Devil's Bridges.
