Churches and monasteries
brick church with a single nave and a tower, with a Renaissance tomb in the chancel
Historic sites
late Neoclassical Habsburg palace with a park, today the seat of the municipal office
Historic sites
Renaissance cenotaph of the Voivode of Kraków, hidden behind an altar for over 160 years
Architecture in Bestwina brings together a late Gothic church, the Renaissance tomb of the Myszkowski couple and the Habsburg palace in its park.
Three buildings from different eras stand in one municipality. For a lover of monuments it is a compact set, from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth.
The Church of the Assumption of the BVM at Plebańska 4 was completed in 1577. It is late Gothic, single-naved, with a tower to the west, and its furnishings are mostly Baroque and Rococo.
In the chancel stands the tomb of Stanisław and Jadwiga Myszkowski, a four-storey Renaissance cenotaph of a Kraków voivode and his wife. It fills the whole apse and is 789 cm tall; it was unveiled after conservation in 2015-2017.
The Habsburg Palace at Krakowska 111 was raised in 1824-1826 for Karol Ludwik Habsburg. It is a late Classicist building in a park of 4.5 ha and a working office of the municipal authorities today, so it is viewed mainly from outside and from the park.
The church, completed in 1577, is the oldest of the three buildings.
See the page for Bestwina or the section on Architecture.
