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Churches & monasteries
Kałków
Amid the fields of the Świętokrzyskie region stands a building that looks like a medieval castle, 33 metres high. This is the Golgotha, the heart of the sanctuary in Kałków-Godów and a kind of national pantheon: inside are chapels commemor…
Churches & monasteries
Pińczów
Pińczów has two faces: its Renaissance market square and Mirów – once a separate little town founded in 1592 by Zygmunt Myszkowski. In Mirów stands the Church of the Visitation with its Franciscan friary, home to the miraculous image of Ou…
Churches & monasteries
Pacanów
Pacanów is best known for the cartoon goat Koziołek Matołek, but the little town also has one of the oldest church pedigrees in Poland. The Basilica of St Martin – also the Sanctuary of the Dying Lord Jesus – stands on the site of a church…
Castles
Szydłów
Szydłów Royal Castle stands on an escarpment sloping down to the valley of the little Ciekąca river, built into the walls of the town known as the Polish Carcassonne. Its Knights' Hall from around 1400 is the best-preserved medieval reside…