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. 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.

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

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.

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.