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Golub-Dobrzyń
The tower of St Catherine's Church in Golub holds a bell donated in 1623 by King Sigismund III Vasa – brother of Anna Vasa, who was then living at the nearby castle as its governor. The church itself is more than three hundred years older:…
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Nowy Targ
Inside St Catherine's Church hangs a Latin inscription, "Fundata a Casimiro Magno Anno Domini 1346" – founded by King Casimir the Great in the year 1346. The brick chancel and the stone holy-water stoups by the entrances survive from that…
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Wolbrom
The Baroque church in the north-eastern corner of Wolbrom's market square has walls about 1.5 m thick and for centuries doubled as a small fortress. Its history goes back to 1346, and its present form was given in the 17th century by the C…
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Woźniki
The tower of St Catherine's Church – square below, octagonal above, with an onion-shaped cupola – marks the centre of Woźniki, one of the oldest small towns in Upper Silesia. The church is built of rough limestone, and its walls have seen…
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Wieliczka
For centuries this was the miners' parish: every morning a special "diggers' Mass" was said here for the crews about to go underground, and the altars were paid for by the officials who ran the royal salt works. St Clement's Church in Wiel…
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Zawoja
The parish itself counts St Clement's Church in the centre of Zawoja among the largest wooden churches in Poland. Built in 1888 with funding from Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, it surprises with its scale: three aisles divided by cast-iron…
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Chabówka
Right beside the Zakopane road, on the western slope of Piątkowa Góra on the border of Chabówka and Rdzawka, stands the wooden Holy Cross Church "na Obidowej". Built in 1757, surrounded by arcades and old lime trees, it has been a stop on…
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Żagań
The neo-Gothic Church of the Holy Cross stands in the north-eastern part of the palace park in Żagań, right by a bend of the Bóbr river. Outside it catches the eye with a facade of fieldstone granite and dozens of colourful coats of arms;…
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Żywiec
The low, plastered church with shingled roofs in Rudza, the oldest part of Żywiec, predates the founding of the town on its present site: Holy Cross Church was built around 1380. Locals call it the church of the "Three Crosses", after the…
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Lipnica Murowana
St. Leonard's Church in Lipnica Murowana (say "LEEP-nee-tsa moo-ro-VAH-na") is a tiny late-Gothic wooden cemetery church tucked under old trees beside the Uszwica stream, about an hour from Kraków. Since 2003 it has been one of six compone…
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Lubiń
The walls of St Leonard's Church in Lubiń tell its story better than any information board: the lower sections of dressed granite blocks belong to a Romanesque church from the early 13th century, and above them begins the red brick of a Go…
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Wojnicz
A few minutes from the A4 motorway exit, on St Leonard Street in Wojnicz, stands a small wooden church with a shingled roof and a little bell turret. For centuries it was a hospital church that cared for the poor, and its altar holds paint…
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Andrychów
St Matthias Church is the parish church in the centre of Andrychów, at the foot of the Little Beskids. The masonry church dates from 1646 and was rebuilt and extended many times over the following centuries. Its greatest treasure is the im…
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Siewierz
For centuries Siewierz belonged to the bishops of Kraków, who also ruled here as dukes of Siewierz – and the Church of St Matthias the Apostle bears their mark at every turn. Above the portal hangs the coat of arms of Bishop Kajetan Sołtyk…
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Bydlin
St Margaret's Church in Bydlin (Klucze municipality) is a church built in 1865, seat of a parish whose origins go back to the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is worth extending your visit to the cemetery chapel with its 15th-centur…
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Rogalin
In a park near Poznań stands a Roman temple – or at least that is how it looks. The Church of St Marcellinus in Rogalin, built in 1817–1820 by Count Edward Raczyński, was modelled on the Maison Carrée in Nîmes, a temple from the 1st centur…
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Koszęcin
In the mid-18th century two wooden places of worship went up in Cieszowa – a church and a synagogue – and, according to tradition, both were built by the same carpenter. The synagogue is gone, but the wooden Church of St Martin from 1751 s…
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Krzeszowice
The Neo-Gothic Church of St Martin on the Krzeszówka river bears the signature of one of the most famous architects of 19th-century Europe. It was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the leading Prussian architect of his day, and funded b…
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Lelów
Lelów was once a royal town guarding the northern approach to Kraków, and its parish church was founded by King Casimir the Great himself. St Martin's Church is today the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation of Lelów – a Gothic church remodel…
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Tarnowskie Góry
In Stare Tarnowice, in a churchyard enclosed by a limestone wall, stands the oldest church in Tarnowskie Góry – a relic of the days before the town existed, when Tarnowice was a knightly village. The old Church of St Martin was built from…
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Długa Goślina
St Mary Magdalene's Church in Długa Goślina is a wooden church from the early 17th century on the northern edge of the Zielonka Forest, in the municipality of Murowana Goślina. It belongs to the trail of wooden churches around the Zielonka…
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Mszana Dolna
In Kasina Wielka, in the Island Beskids between the peaks of Lubogoszcz, Śnieżnica, Ćwilin and Wierzbanowska Góra, there are two churches: a new one of brick and an old wooden one from 1678. The latter, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, is o…
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Koziegłowy
The Church of St Mary Magdalene and Corpus Christi at 4 Kościelna Street is the former parish church of Koziegłowy, standing just east of the market square. Its greatest treasure lay hidden under plaster for centuries: in 1972 workers came…
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Binarowa
In Binarowa it is hard to find a patch of wall without paint: the ceilings are covered in Gothic plant ornament, the walls in Baroque picture cycles, and even the confessionals are painted. This log church from around 1500 was added to the…