Zinar Castle

On the outside, austere gothic architecture, inside soft arches and a riot of colors of the Art Nouveau polychrome by Stanisław Wyspiański. He is also the author of a set of eight unique stained glass windows.

The construction of the church for the Franciscan Order began with the support of Prince Bolesław the Chaste, the ruler to whom Kraków owes its location in 1257. The sister of the prince, Bl. Salome, as well as the founder himself. Frequent changes in the appearance of the building, its shape and decor resulted, among others, from from several big fires. The unique atmosphere of the Franciscan Church is created today by the works of Young Poland by Stanisław Wyspiański - his design are magnificent Art Nouveau polychromes and stained glass windows. The paintings on the walls of the chancel and the nave are mainly geometric and plant motifs - popular Polish flowers. In the presbytery windows, the artist placed stained glass windows depicting the four elements and the figures of Bl. Salomea and St. Francis. The monumental stained glass window, God the Father - Become a dominant feature, dominates the entire church above the main entrance.

In the Chapel of the Passion (on the right side of the nave), since 1620, services for the Archconfraternity of the Lord's Passion have been held. The brothers cultivate the old customs: on every Friday of Lent, dressed in black habits with hoods covering their faces, they celebrate a Passion service, the so-called the Jerusalem procession. The two oldest brothers carry the skulls of a man and a woman placed on wooden shafts. It seems then that time has gone back several centuries...

A monastery adjoins the church. According to legend, Jadwiga Andegaweńska (crowned King of Poland in 1384) secretly met here with the Austrian prince Wilhelm Habsburg, whom she was originally to marry before her hand was assigned to Władysław Jagiełło. In 2005, the image of Karol Wojtyła in papal dress was unveiled in the cloisters of the monastery. The future holy father prayed very often in the church of Fr. Franciscans - a specially marked bench reminds of it, which he used when, as the archbishop of Krakow, he lived in the Bishop's Palace located on the other side of Franciszkańska Street.