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Międzylesie
In the cemetery on the eastern edge of Międzylesie stands a white church with a tall tower topped by an onion dome and lantern. It is older than the town's main church in its present form – it was built in 1491 – and although it survived t…
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Siewierz
The Church of St Barbara and St Valentine in Siewierz is a small masonry church from 1618, built through the efforts and money of the town's burghers for a hospital that had operated here since 1515. It stands south of the Market Square, i…
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Liszki
To build the church in Morawica, Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski sold the treasures of the chapel at Tenczyn Castle and then had half of Morawica's old castle pulled down. On its rubble, between 1743 and 1748, rose the Baroque Church…
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Włodowice
Since the early 18th century a Baroque stone church on a hill (395 m above sea level) has towered over Włodowice on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Before this masonry church was built, a succession of wooden churches burned and rose again…
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Chęciny
St Bartholomew's Church stands at the foot of the castle hill and can be seen clearly from the castle walls. It is the parish church of a royal town, linked with King Władysław the Short and Casimir the Great, and for several decades it wa…
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Głogówek
St. Bartholomew's Church in Głogówek (say "gwo-GOO-vek"), a former collegiate church, is often called the "Pearl of the Opole Region". Behind its Gothic brick walls and twin towers lies one of the most spectacular Baroque and Rococo interi…
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Jerzmanowice
The church in Jerzmanowice has bells older than the building itself. One was cast in 1545, in the reign of King Sigismund the Old, the other in 1548. They survived because during the First World War parishioners buried them in the ground b…
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Licheń Stary
Long before Licheń built one of the largest churches in Poland, the heart of the sanctuary was this red-brick neo-Gothic church on Klasztorna Street. For almost 150 years (1858–2006) it housed the image of Our Lady of Licheń, and in front…
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Wadowice
The parish of Barwałd is one of the oldest in the Archdiocese of Kraków – first recorded in 1326, it celebrates its 700th anniversary in 2026. Its wooden Church of St Erasmus, consecrated in 1782, has an unusual layout: the tower stands on…
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Jedlec
The Church of St Florian in Jedlec is a late-Baroque church from 1745–1753, built in half-timbering: a timber frame filled with brick and clay. The black-and-white body with its dark tower and red roof hides a uniform Rococo interior, and…
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Żnin
Set into the north wall of Żnin's parish church is a stone block older than the church itself – it comes from a 13th-century Romanesque building and is carved with the figure of a horseman. It is a good clue to the whole building: the Goth…
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Giebułtów
The high altar of this small church near Kraków holds a painting of Our Lady of Częstochowa dated 1623 – according to conservators, probably the oldest surviving copy of the famous Jasna Góra icon. The Church of St Giles in Giebułtów is th…
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Tomaszów Mazowiecki
On a hill in Inowłódz, above the Pilica valley, stands one of the oldest churches in Poland: a stone church with a round tower, traditionally dated to the late 11th century. The Romanesque Church of St Giles in Inowłódz is tied to the hist…
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Kroczyce
The high altar of the church in Kroczyce is neither carved wood nor marble: it is a grotto modelled on the one at Lourdes, built from blocks of local calcite, a mineral once quarried in the surrounding Jurassic rocks. The twin-towered chur…
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Klimontów
On the chancel arch of St Hyacinth's Church in Klimontów, the builders left a kind of signature: a mason's mark with the names of Gaspare and Sebastiano Fodiga and the date 1619 (or 1618). Thanks to traces like this, uncovered during conse…
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Bolków
Next to the pulpit in St Hedwig's Church in Bolków, a 13th-century stone corbel juts out from the wall: three men's heads, each with a different expression. It is one of many details in a church that has stood at the top of the market squa…
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Zabrze
In the mining town of Zabrze, building a church of wood was a matter of common sense, not nostalgia. When a church was planned in the late 1920s for more than 5,000 Catholics in the Poremba district, fear of mining subsidence settled it: a…
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Brzesko
Brzesko's old Gothic church has not disappeared, though at first glance it is hard to spot. In the 1980s a new, much larger nave was added on its north side, and the former church became its entrance hall. Walking into St James's therefore…
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Jedwabne
Two white towers with dark cupolas rise above the flat country between Łomża and the Biebrza river and mark the centre of Jedwabne. St James the Apostle Church was built in 1926–1935, as the small town was recovering from the ruins of the…
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Skarbimierz
From the outside it is "just" a red-brick Gothic church in a village near Brzeg. Inside, the walls, the chancel arch and the ceiling are covered with almost 1,000 m² of medieval painting – regarded as the largest ensemble of late-medieval…
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Człuchów
Człuchów's parish church has an unusual shape because in 1926 it was turned through 90 degrees. A new nave was built at right angles to the Baroque church of 1647, and the old nave became a transept. Inside, Baroque furnishings from the 17…
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Murowana Goślina
On the market square of Murowana Goślina – officially Plac Powstańców Wielkopolskich – stands the town's oldest monument, the parish church of St James the Apostle. Its walls record several centuries of rebuilding, but the most intriguing…
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Toruń
St. James' Church in Toruń is the Gothic parish church of the medieval New Town, standing at the eastern corner of the New Town Square. The city calls it the most beautiful Gothic church in Toruń, and it is the only one here with external…
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gmina Pilica
The church above Pilica's market square has royal connections: when it was built, the town belonged to the Pilecki family, and Elżbieta of Pilcza, daughter of Otto and Jadwiga, became the third wife of King Władysław Jagiełło in 1417. Succ…