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 Square
South end	Wawel

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]

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

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

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.
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.