Grodzka Street, Kraków

Grodzka Street

View of crossroad between Poselska Street to the south. St. Andrew's Church is at the centre point of the photograph.
Length	650 m (2,130 ft)
North end	Main Square
South end	Wawel

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]

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.

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