Świętego Jana Street, Kraków
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_street_(view_from_S),_Old_Town,_Kraków,_Poland.JPG) View towards the north, with the Church of the Transfiguration of Jesus in the distance. | |
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| Length | 285 m (935 ft) |
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| North end | Pijarska Street |
| South end | Main Market Square |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | iv |
| Designated | 1978 |
| Part of | Historic Centre of Kraków |
| Reference no. | 29 |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Designated | 1994-09-08 |
| Part of | Kraków historical city complex |
| Reference no. | M.P. 1994 nr 50 poz. 418[1] |
Świętego Jana Street (Polish: ulica Świętego Jana, lit. St. John's Street) - a historic street in Old Town of 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 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.[2]
The street features several magnate palaces of the Czartoryski, Lubomirski, Popiel 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.[3]
