svatý Jiljí
Czechia
Stand on Kostelní náměstí in the old heart of Nymburk and the first thing you register is brick: a whole Gothic basilica built of it, with sandstone used only for certain details. Its slender tower climbs to 66 metres and, together with the town walls, makes the outline people recognise as Nymburk. Nobody has found a document recording when the church was founded. Historians reason from its style, and from a late 13th-century charter of Přemysl Otakar II founding the town's Dominican friary, that the parish church must have begun with the town itself. It was then dedicated to St Nicholas, and took the name of St Giles only during the Thirty Years' War.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Kostel svatého Jiljí (Nymburk) (cs.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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