Czestochowa is situated in the south part of Poland on Krakowsko-Czestochowska upland, on the Warta river and its tributaries: the Stradomka river and the Konopna river.

The city is situated on a topographically diversified area - from 240m above s.l. (rivers' beds) to 298m above s.l. (hills in Bleszno and Predziszow). Czestochowa is a beautiful city. It is between 50' 52' and 50' 44' north latitude and 19' 01' and 19' 14' west longitude.

The origins of Częstochowa started in the year 1220. The uprising of the village Częstochowa near the ford through the river Warta is dated on the early mediaeval ages, which is in the late 11th century. Częstochówka - as the name tells us - rised later on the Jasna Góra hill; This settlement might have had a defensive character and the church there might have been also a fortress. Until the half of XVI the sources more often have been meantioning Częstochowa, in the documents it is said that Częstochowa was a village prepared for kings' stages, that means that the economical state and the facilities must have been good.

On 24 August 1356 Częstochowa was granted a german town law, it was signed in Krzepice and it allowed to locate two villages; Częstochowa - at the earlier area and the second by the river Rybna. Unfortunately, it isn't known the date of granting the city law to Częstochowa, because the document is lost. As a village Częstochowa is mentioned in this document from the year 1356, the first record about Częstochowa - as a city - comes from a document by Władysław, a duke of Opole, from 3 May 1377. Władysław Opolczyk was the master of Częstochowa and starostwo olsztyńskie. In the documents by Władysław Opolski we can also find out about founding The Jasna Góra clastor. Considering the date 1377 (the first record about the city of Częstochowa), it can be said that Częstochowa granted the city law probably between1370 and 1377 and it happened by the duke Władysław Opolczyka, or - what is more possible - by the king Ludwik Węgierski. The dramatical year 1655 was rather slightly mentoined in the historical sources about Częstochowa, however it caused painful changes in the lives of its inhabitants. All the fame for the defend against the swedish army besetment from 18 November to 20 December has gone to Jasna Góra and priest Augustyn Kordecki and the city received only misery that the war brings. The besement of Jasna Góra has a rich literature, but the fates of the city during the war and long after "Potop" are rather slightly known. It can be that during the next years after year 1655 there was an adminitrational chaos, the city was patly ruined and deserted, because the inhabitants were killed or they moved to the peaceful regions of the country. Częstochowa in its historical progress wasn't the unparted integrity. It was separated to two different cities: Old and New Częstochowa, which united in 1823-1826, making the one city Częstochowa. When the cities joined "droga od Starey do Nowey Częstochowy i Jasney Góry prowadzšca"(road fron Old to New Częstochowa and Jasna Góra) changed the name to Panny Mariy(Maria Virgin) street and it become the main street in Częstochowa. In the Avenues only the buildings from the XIX and XX century survived.

In many other places the earlier buildings didn't survive. Some tenement-houses hide interesting courts.