Świętego Jana Street, Kraków

Świętego Jana Street
	View towards the north, with the Church of the Transfiguration of Jesus in the distance.
Length	285 m (935 ft)
North end	Pijarska Street
South end	Main Square

Świętego Jana Street (Polish: Ulica Świętego Jana, lit. St. John's Street) - a historic street in Kraków, Poland.

The street begins in the south by the Main Square northwards to where it is closed off by the Church of the Transfiguration of Jesus by Pijarska Street. The name of the street derives from the Church St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, first being recorded in the fourteenth century as platea S. Joannie Baptistae.^[1]

The street features several magnate palaces of the Czartoryski, Lubomirski, Popielów and Wodzicki szlachta families. The street is known for holding several funeral processions, inter alia of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz in 1887, and Stanisław Wyspiański in 1907.^[2]

Features edit

Street No.	Short description	Picture
1	Boner House - built in the sixteenth century. The building is named after Jan Boner.
2	Feniks House - built between 1928 and 1932 in the art deco architectural style, designed by architect Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz. Presently, the building houses several businesses (ground floor) and apartments on its upper floors.^[3]
7	Church St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist - a Roman Catholic church built in the twelfth century. The church is administered by the Prezentki female religious order.
11	Wodzicki Palace - constructed in the nineteenth century by adjoining two townhouses.
13	Przebendowski Palace - a historical palace built in the eighteenth-century according to architect Franciszek Placidi's designs. The late-Baroque portal contains the Nałęcz coat of arms, which the Przebendowski family.^[4]
15	Lubomirski Palace - a historic palace built in the nineteenth century.^[5]
19	Czartoryski Palace - the palace houses one of the oldest museums in Poland, opening in 1878. The museum's collections stem back from 1801, collected by Izabela Czartoryska, presented in her museum in Puławy.