Kleczanów [klɛˈt͡ʂanuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Obrazów, within Sandomierz County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.
[1] Nearby Kleczanów Forest (Polish: Las w Kleczanowie) features ancient burial grounds from the 8th–10th century.
[2] The small forest complex (c. 5 ha) iis known for featuring an ancient site of 37 Slavic kurgans (burial mounds) 4–10 metres high.
The first burials are believed to have started in the Kleczanów woods in the late Stone Age and continued into the 10th and 11th centuries.
The spring season, lasting from March till June, was traditionally devoted by Slavs to rebirth ceremonies and communication with dead ancestors (as well as autumn time, conf.