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On 22 September 1994 — the last day of the Days of European Heritage held in Poland — fifteen towns, complexes and historical objects of particular merit for national culture were recognised by the President of the Polish Republic, at the request of the Minister of Culture and Art, as monuments of history. This first Polish list of monuments selected among a hundred candidates includes the historical urban complexes of Gdańsk, Kazimierz Dolny, Krakow, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław and Zamość, the mediaeval castle complex in Malbork, the monastic-defensive complex of Jasna Gora in Częstochowa and the cathedral-defensive complex in Frombork, the cathedral in Gniezno as well as architectonic-archeological and technical monuments — the prehistoric defensive settlement in Biskupin, the neolithic mine in Krzemionki Opatowskie, the early mediaeval castle- town in Ostrow Legnicki and the twelfth-century salt mine in Wieliczka.