Churches and monasteries
Gothic church from the 15th century with three chapels, Rococo polychromes and a Renaissance tomb
Churches and monasteries
Baroque hospital church from 1630 with three altars and a late Baroque pulpit
Churches and monasteries
18th-century Reformed Franciscan monastery with a copy of the icon of Our Lady of the Snows
Churches and monasteries in Pilica include a Gothic church of the 1400s with the Padniewski chapel, the Baroque St George's and a Franciscan monastery.
Pilica has several centuries of town life behind it, and its churches read like successive chapters: Gothic, Baroque and a monastery funded by Sobieska. The whole is worth seeing alone in a single afternoon.
The earliest is the brick Gothic church of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the parish church, dated to the 1400s and raised soon after the town settled at its present location in the late 1300s. Its distinguishing features are the Padniewski chapel of 1601 and a gravestone of 1555. The 1325 mention refers instead to Old Pilica, a settlement by the castle in Smoleń. The story of the town continues in articles about towns that lost their status in 1870 and about the castle, the statue and the emptiness of Pilica.
St George's Church at Krakowska 8 was originally a hospital church, put up in 1630 at the will of Prince Jerzy Zbaraski. It owes its present form to a rebuild after a nineteenth-century blaze. Maria Józefa Sobieska set up the Franciscan monastery in 1740, and its heart is the cult of the image of Our Lady of the Snows. The remaining places are in things to do in Pilica, and more churches in the category churches and monasteries in Silesia.
Maria Józefa Sobieska, who also gave the ground for building. The monastery was set up in 1740 and formally began work in 1745.
It is a branch church of the parish of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, although it was originally a hospital church.
