Poland - Krakow

The first church on this site was built in the 1300s. St Annes Catholic Church replaced it and was opened in the latter half of the 1600s as a university church and is a good example of Polish Baroque architecture. St. John Cantius, patron saint of the Jagiellonian University, was buried in a tomb here. Controversially, a monument to Copernicus was erected here in 1823 while the writings of this famous astronomer were still formally listed on the church’s index of forbidden books.