Kraków Sights

Benedictine Abbey

#27 of 281 things to do in Kraków

#27 of 281 things to do in Kraków

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The Benedictine Abbey dramatically perched on a cliff above the Vistula. The Benedictines came to Poland in the second half of the 11th century, and it was in Tyniec that they established their first base. The original Romanesque church and the monastery were destroyed and rebuilt in the 14th and 18th centuries. Today the church is essentially a Baroque building, though the stone foundations and the lower parts of the walls, partly uncovered and behind protected glass to the west of the church, show its earlier origins.

 

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