Grodzka Street, Kraków
Grodzka Street (Polish: Ulica Grodzka, lit. Gord Street) - one of the oldest streets in Kraków, Poland. Grodzka was part of a former north-south trade route.[1] The street is part of the Royal Route, used by Polish kings to reach Wawel Castle. The earliest documents referencing its name date from the thirteenth-century.[2][3]
 View of crossroad between Poselska Street to the south. St. Andrew's Church is at the centre point of the photograph. | |
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| Length | 650 m (2,130 ft) |
|---|---|
| North end | Main Square |
| South end | Wawel |
Part of the street was destroyed by the Kraków Fire of 1850. In the later half of the 19th century, a tramway track was laid on Grodzka Street.[4]
Features
| Street No. | Short description | Picture |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | Stadnicki Palace - a nineteenth-century palace with a rococo façade. |  |
| 52 | Former Jesuit Collegium from the first quarter of the seventeenth century. The Jesuits opened a school here, as to compete with the Jagiellonian University. Presently, the building is home to the Collegium Broscianum of the Jagiellonian University. |  |
| 54 | Saints Peter and Paul Church - a Roman Catholic, Polish Baroque church, built in the early seventeenth-century. |  |
| 56 | St. Andrew's Church - a historical Romanesque church, built in the late eleventh-century as a fortress church used for defensive purposes. |  |
| 58 | St. Martin's Church - a Lutheran/Calvinist church, built in the first half of the seventeenth-century. |  |
| 65 | Gniezno Bishop's Palace - a palace from the seventeenth-century, rebuilt in the Classicist architectural style in the nineteenth-century. |  |
| 64 | Royal Arsenal - built in 1643. Presently, the building houses the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University. |  |
| 67 | Church of St. Giles - a church built in the fourteenth-century. |  |
References
- "Ulica Grodzka w Krakowie | Ulice miasta Krakowa". www.krakow4u.pl. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
- Wawryszczuk, Ambroży Grabowski ; wybór tekstów Janusz Stasiak ; red. Agata (2008). Domy dawnego Krakowa : wypisy z dzieł. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Jagiellonia SA. p. 71. ISBN 978-83-85729-64-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - "Ulica Grodzka - Magiczny Kraków". www.krakow.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
- "Ulica Grodzka | Przewodnik Kraków" (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-09-30.
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