One of Poland's major pilgrimage destinations as well as one of the most beautiful Calvary complexes in Europe, the little town of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is set amidst hills about 30 kilometers south-west from Kraków.

Both temples were not supposed to be reminiscent of traditional churches.

The pride of place in the town is held by the monumental Gothic cathedral, one of the most sumptuous Cistercian basilicas in Poland.

Wang Church was built at the turn of 12^th century in Vang which accounts for its present name. Vang was a settlement at Lake Vang in southern Norway.

This Jesuit monastic complex is considered to be the most beautiful Baroque edifice in Poland.

In 1171 the Bishop Gedeon founded a collegiate church under the invocation of the Assumption of the BVM located on Wzgórze Zamkowe (Castle Hill). It was a Romanesque-style temple...