Dominican Church

The next most beautiful church in central Cracow is the Dominicans´.

The interior is rather more restrained than the Mariacki.

In fact, it could almost be French. The choir is decorated; but it is so narrow (I think the church dates from the late 13th, or early 14th Century) that I couldn´t get a photograph. Never mind the beady eyed nuns …

The side chapels have been Baroqued, I am pained to report. Although the work has been done in a reasonably restrained way.

But, to misquote Disraeli, there is excess even in moderation:

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