Wiślica

Wiślica is 16 km away.

Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Collegiate Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wiślica - a Gothic church erected in the 14th century by Casimir the Great in Wiślica, on the foundations of two older Romanesque temples. It bears the title of a collegiate church, and since September 8, 2005 also a minor basilica. The construction of the first Romanesque collegiate church of St. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was started by Prince Henryk Sandomierz. The church was completed in the second half of the 12th century during the reign of his brother Casimir the Just. It was a small single-nave building with an oriented chancel lower and narrower than the nave, ended with a small apse. A small gallery was located in the western part of the nave. Under the presbytery there was a crypt, the remains of which have been preserved to this day in the basement of the basilica. It had a cross vault supported by four columns.

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