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Wiślica
On the wall of one room a small haloed figure kneels beneath a Gothic inscription reading "Lord, have mercy on us". Scholars believe it portrays Jan Długosz – the great medieval chronicler who in 1460 paid for this house for the clergy of…
Churches & monasteries
Wiślica
To the left of the basilica entrance in Wiślica stands a square tower whose upper half is wrapped in a lattice of dark brick diamonds. It was funded by Jan Długosz – chronicler, canon and tutor to the royal princes – and under its roof he…
Churches & monasteries
Wiślica
The Collegiate Basilica in Wiślica (pronounced roughly "veesh-LEE-tsah"), dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, is a Gothic church founded by King Casimir the Great and one of the most important medieval sites in Poland. It is prot…
Churches & monasteries
Wiślica
St. Stanislaus Church in Nowy Korczyn is a 13th-century Gothic church founded in 1257 by Duke Bolesław the Chaste and his wife Kinga, later canonized as St. Kinga. It stands in a small town in the Ponidzie region of southern Poland, near t…
Churches & monasteries
Wiślica
The August church fair held in front of this church made it into a song – the folk band Wolna Grupa Bukowina immortalised it in "Nuta z Ponidzia". The Church of St Lawrence itself is older than any ballad: the stone church on the hill at G…
Museums
Wiślica
For half a century a shallow gypsum hollow 4.2 metres across was treated as proof that Christianity reached Wiślica almost a hundred years before the baptism of Poland's first ruler, Mieszko I, in 966. Today it is known as one of the most…
Historic sites
Wiślica
Beneath and beside the Gothic collegiate church in Wiślica lie the foundations of three Romanesque churches, and in the crypt the Orants Slab – a gypsum floor with incised figures from around 1175–1177, unique worldwide. The relics are sho…