Grodzka Street, Kraków

Grodzka Street
	View of the intersection with Dominikańska Street, and the Sukiennice Cloth Hall in the distance.
Length	650 m (2,130 ft)
North end	Main Market Square
South end	Wawel
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Type	Cultural
Criteria	iv
Designated	1978
Part of	Historic Centre of Kraków
Reference no.	29
Region	Europe and North America
Historic Monument of Poland
Designated	1994-09-08
Part of	Kraków historical city complex
Reference no.	M.P. 1994 nr 50 poz. 418

Length650 m (2,130 ft)

NorthendMain Market Square

SouthendWawel

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.^[2] 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.^[3]^[4]

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.^[5]

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Street No.	Short description	Picture
19	Wyspiański Pavilion – Modern building, a stained-glass image based on never previously implemented designs by Stanisław Wyspiański is set in the three windows of the façade.
28-30	Former Mordechai Tigner Beit Midrash.
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. Then the seat of the Senate of the Free City of Cracow. 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 Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University.
67	Church of St. Giles – a church built in the fourteenth century.

Grodzka Street, Kraków

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