Saint Sigsmunt Church in Szydlowiec

Saint Sigsmunt Church in Szydlowiec is a church that was built towards the close of the example of the Late Gothic hall church. It was built with a local sandstone. The late-Gothic silhouette of the church does not prepare a visitor for the impression made by its Renaissance interior colorful polychromy.

There are a lot of original monuments: Mikołaj Szydłowiecki's gravestone (B.Berecci), gravestone of Mikołaj Radziwiłł and his wife Maria née Gawdzicka and was inspired by sleeping Ariadna's (G.Monaldi). In the chancel there is a most beautiful late-Gothic polyptych showing the Assumption and Evangelical scenes made in 1509 in a workshop in Krakow. The 19th - century church organ of the beautiful and rich tone are used also for secular purposes within the framework.