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The Gothic church is located in a small village near the spa town of Busko-Zdrój.
Today, a bit sleepy Szaniec, was centuries ago one of the most important places of great land belonging to the so-called Pińczów Estate.
Even before the establishment of the undivided estates of the Myszkowski family, the Grand Chancellor of the Crown and the Bishop of Kujawy, Krzesław from Kurozwęki, founded a church with quite unusual architecture in Szaniec.
The Szaniecka temple is a pseudo-double-nave building. From the outside, it is clearly visible that the body of the building consists of a presbytery with a 16th-century sacristy and one nave. However, when we go inside, it turns out that the two slender pillars supporting the palm vault visually divide the space for the faithful into two symmetrical parts. In this way, the style of the church refers to the previous foundations made in the area by King Casimir the Great.
The temples in Stopnica, Wiślica and Szydłów, belonging to the so-called Baryczkowska series, are also distinguished by this unusual structure. But these peculiar "palm trees in the church" are not the only curiosities of the interior of the rampart temple. Note the small, late Gothic stained glass window with the image of St. Stanislaus. The same saint was depicted by Franciszek Smuglewicz, a famous painter from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries in the painting that you will see today in the side altar.
