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St. Anne's chapel, garden tower late Renaissance, Renaissance fountain project Santi Gucci, or Italian architecture in Pińczów.

City sculptors ordinate and heretics so you can specify Pińczów. Located on the Nida River Ponidzie,  39 km south of Kielce. It is located partly in the valley of the North Nida relying on the slopes of the hill included in the Garb Pińczów. Pinczów development started from the quarry, which existed here in the twelfth century. Security miners keep a small fortified town, probably destroyed by the Tatars in 1241. In the first half. XIV. In its place erected a Gothic castle, at the foot of which a settlement developed. It carried the first name Piędziców (1405 - Pandziczow, c. 1470 Pyandzyczow). From the sixteenth century. Using a modern name. In 1424 the settlement was owned by the family Oleśnicki. They built on Castle Hill new residence, and the settlement was founded by Pauline monastery. September 21, 1428 King Wladyslaw Jagiello Lublin Castle Pińczów granted city rights. Thanks to Nicholas Oleśnicki the city became a center of the Reformation. This is the stone city owes the fact that interest in the well-known Florentine architect and sculptor Santi Gucci. He settled in about 1568 Pinczów. Permanently. This Italian artist founded in big bet stone-sculpting, producing all kinds of architectural details - portals, epitaphs, baptismal fonts, statues. It Santi Gucci is the author of tombstones Sigismund Augustus and Queen Anne's located in the Wawel Sigismund Chapel. From 1558 he worked for the royal court in Cracow. Gucci is characterized as a representative of the Florentine Mannerist second half of the sixteenth century., For which the models were G. da Sangallo, B. Ammanati, B. Bandinelli, F. da Sangallo and Michelangelo. Gucci was also active as an architect. Kamieniarsko-sculpting workshop that led Gucci in Pinczów doing architectural and sculptural works, which are currently in the whole Polish.

Apart from Santi Gucci Pinczów others worked in Italian artists. The city has become in some years the Italian colony of artists. Pinczów most famous work Santi Gucci, which we can see is towering over the city and surroundings Mannerist Chapel of St.. Anne. It was founded in 1600. And is the first free-standing dome of the temple cult purpose only. Once I was surrounded by fortifications and formed part of the defense system of the local castle (now defunct). It is offered in a specially selected position to make her silhouette was clearly visible from a distance and on each side of a hill dominating the city. At the same time it had to create a new architectural accent close spatial neighborhood Myszkowskich castle complex. Late Renaissance chapel is built on a square plan and covered with a dome with a lantern. Her round once bricked up windows and southern transformed. Inside the dome, decorative cornice decorated with fruit and flower bundles. The chapel's altar marble plaque: Foundation; stone wall stoup of the seventeenth century. In front of the temple is also a small porch with a dome and lantern. Three entrances to it are included in the stone frames with rosettes. Circual arc portal from the porch to the chapel decorated with heads of cherubs and rosettes. The height of the chapel from the base to the summit is 13 m. From the north and east are preserved remains of the fortifications still fuzzy bastion of the mid-seventeenth century. Near the chapel standing stone statues of saints: St. hills on the promontory. Paul, in the middle of St. Tekla shaft and the former St. Michael the Archangel. All monuments date from the first half of the nineteenth century. The Chapel of St. Anna's is open for several days of July, when held here devotions and processions in connection with the name day of Anna attributable earlier this month. In the recent past, yet held here on Easter Monday pińczowski Emmaus bashing fun folk with whole eggs and rolling away from the slope of the hill. However, the feast has been forgotten.

From the hills near the temple sounds wonderful view of the city and the Valley of Nida. Margrave founded chapels Zygmunt Myszkowski. Another object of a point of interest located in the garden pavilion Pinczów is called the garden tower. It is located in the southern part of the park next to the palace. Raised it at the end of the sixteenth century. Santi Gucci. It is a small late-Renaissance building in the foreground pentagon. It covers a shingled roof tent. The windows on the first floor in the round-arched, on the ground shoulders  floor similar, but smaller. The building is topped with a cornice with slim consoles, eject the disc supporting the eaves. On the facade of the garden is the entrance to the room in the basement; access to the second floor was made possible through a porch which still remained highly advanced sophisticated consoles. On the first floor is decorated entrance portal, consisting of a profiled frame and the lintel of the cornice and frieze, which revived Jastrzębiec cartouche with the arms and broken ribbons. Tower with its garden and four others (not preserved today) garden pavilions used to be an integral part of the great castle Myszkowskich assumptions. Until his death in 1615 Sigismund Pińczów more beautiful. Builds a castle, formed Chapel of St. Anne, bath and fountain in the city, I wanted to bring the story as well, and it is an object that has left in our town Santi Gucci. This Renaissance fountain funded in 1593. By Zygmunt Myszkowski designed and manufactured in local factories stonework Santi Gucci. Fed him water flowing stone pipeline from ponds at Castle Hill. It has lalkowatego baluster shape, made of sandstone. Was made - "For the convenience of the inhabitants of the city" - so says a Latin inscription carved. Adolf Dygasińskiemu probably loved it because I placed many times in his works is a small piece of stonework. Imagine his surprise at seeing the literary Beldonka fountain: "... the most in his mind could not hold up well in the middle of bizarre city, which it pee water high into the air and then again, as the rain was coming down ...." .Being ever bowl fountain has not survived. Below the water are strongly destroyed subtitle: "The foundation of Sigmund and restaurant Wielopolski Francis, the governor of Cracow. Renovation work performed in the years 1729 to 1732 Sagowski foreman. "Today, there is an old fountain. After 410 years, disappeared from the heart of the market. Place around it was paved. Misa instead of 2.5 meters is now 40 centimeters deep. Heart fountains, or banister transferred to a regional museum. Living in about a fountain goes from the end of the sixteenth century to the present day is the main object in Pińczów park.