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]

Grodzka Street
View of the intersection with Dominikańska Street, and the Sukiennice Cloth Hall in the distance.
Length650 m (2,130 ft)
North endMain Square
South endWawel

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

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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

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  1. ^ "Ulica Grodzka w Krakowie | Ulice miasta Krakowa". www.krakow4u.pl. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ "Ulica Grodzka - Magiczny Kraków". www.krakow.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Ulica Grodzka | Przewodnik Kraków" (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-09-30.