Within the Rzeszów Old Town, you can see the great temple, which now has the status of basilica. This is the church of Our Lady of the Assumption, which is also popularly referred to as, Bernardine Church. This name is explained very simply: the temple belonged to the Bernardine Order, and was next to the monastery of the Holy Fathers.

The story of the church, turned in time to the basilica, it is amazing. Events, the impetus for its construction, took place in 1513. One of the local peasant named Jakub Adoz saw in the trunk of a pear tree picture image of Our Lady with the Child. To this image was not gone over it was decided to erect a small wooden church. In 1536 it opened. This church was used by locals to 1610, when

The new owner of the estate Rzeszow Castellan Nikolai Spitek Ligeza decided to build a new, more spacious and presentable church. And she had to perform several functions: to serve as a place of family graves and pans Ligezov be fortifications. All the prerequisites to turn the Church of Our Lady in a well-fortified building, were: he was on the hill, which was surrounded by swamps. Therefore, the church became part of the defensive system of the city, along with the Small synagogue or local castle.

In 1629 the church was handed over Bernardine monastery.

The interior of the temple, you can see the original alabaster altar, which shows the patron of the church, and the Gothic statue of the Virgin and Child, which is made of the school master Veit Stoss.