Saints Peter and Paul Church

This guide to Kraków's Saints Peter and Paul Church follows a troubled construction in the early 1600s, when the Jesuits ordered Poland's first Baroque church and two architects failed before a third, Giovanni Trevano, managed to keep the walls standing and finish the dolomite facade. You'll hear why the finished front so startled Kraków's own residents, and about the twelve apostle statues lining the fence out front. Inside, a brass pendulum swings on more than 150 feet of wire, hung there in 1949 for a quiet demonstration about the ground itself.