Architecture sights in Opole
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Franciscan Church of the Holy Trinity
The Franciscan Church of the Holy Trinity, off the southern corner of the Rynek, was built of brick around 1330, but the interior was reshaped later on various occasions. It boasts an ornate high altar, an 18th-century organ, and a domed Renaissance chapel in the left-hand aisle, separated by a fine, late-16th-century wrought-iron grille. The highlight of the church is the Chapel of St Anne (Kaplica Św Anny), which is accessible from the right-hand aisle through a doorway with a tympanum. The Gothic-vaulted chapel houses a pair of massive double tombs (interring the local dukes) carved in sandstone in the 1380s. They were originally painted but the colour has almost disap…
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Holy Cross Cathedral
The Gothic Holy Cross Cathedral, a short walk north of the Rynek, features 73m-high towers and mostly Baroque interior furnishing. The chapel in the right-hand aisle shelters the red-marble tombstone of the last of the Opole dukes, Jan II Dobry (John II the Good), who popped his ducal clogs here in 1532. A Gothic triptych (1519), the last survivor from the church’s original collection of 26 pieces, is also displayed in this chapel. The lovely bronze gate at the western entrance was erected in 1995 to mark the church’s 700th year.
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