Royal Route

At no. 64 the building of the Resursa Obywatelska is located, built in the years 1860-61 in the place of the palace L.. Zamoyska. It is a three-story building, with a neo-renaissance façade and a colonnaded terrace on the first floor, located above the driveway for carriages. Currently, the "Polish Community" Association has its seat here. From the resursa building to the corner of ul. Bednarska, there is a complex of buildings of the Warsaw Charitable Society in its present shape with 1818 r., after the reconstruction by Antonio Corazzi. In the central part of the facade, there is an entrance to the rector's chapel. Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, rebuilt in 1839 r. The daughter of King Jan Kazimierz was buried in the crypt under the altar – Maria Teresa. In this section, Krakowskie Przedmieście expands considerably (after the demolition of tenement houses in 1865 r.), and in the middle there is a square. In the north. on the edge of the square there is a baroque statue of Our Lady of Passau made by Józef Szymon Belotti in 1683 r. for the victory of King Jan III Sobieski at Vienna and as a votive offering for being saved during the plague (plaques of intent in English on the pedestal. Latin and Italian). on the south. on the edge of the square, a bronze statue of Adam Mickiewicz by Cyprian Godebski, placed on a high stone plinth designed by Józef Pius Dziekoński and Władysław Marconi. The monument was erected in 1898 r. on the hundredth anniversary of the poet's birth.

After the rest. the side of the Royal Route at the junction of Krakowskie Przedmieście, Trębacka and Kozia Streets, there is the Załuski Palace, slightly set back from the street (Wessla). Erected in 1 half. 18th century, rebuilt after 1874 r. Currently, the Provincial Prosecutor's Office has its seat here. After east. side of the Royal Route, the so-called. Dean (under no. 56), that is, the former building of the dean of the Warsaw Chapter. It is a classicist building with a semicircular recess in the central part of the facade. Next to it there is a huge body of the Pokar-Melicki complex. Church of. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St.. Józefa the Bridegroom was built in 1661-81 wg proj. Józef Szymon Belotti for the Discalced Carmelites brought here by King Władysław IV. It is a baroque building, three-nave in a basilica arrangement with a transept. The classic-tangential facade of stone blocks topped with a ball was made in the years 1761-63 wg proj. Ephraim Schroegera. Inside, there is a baroque main altar designed by Tylman van Gameren, in the chapel of Jesus (in the extension of the left aisle) XIX–the eternal sculpture by Oskar Sosnowski depicting "Christ in the tomb", paintings by Franciszek Smuglewicz in the side altars („Sw. John of the Cross "and" Sw. Lawrence”) and a group of sculptures by Jan Jerzy Plersch depicting the "Wedding of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St.. Joseph ". In the church and monastery of St. 1705 r. peace negotiations were held between the King of Poland, Stanisław Leszczyński, and the King of Sweden, Charles XII. Church after World War II, during the reconstruction of the cathedral. st. John served as a pro-cathedral. The monastery adjacent to the church was built in 1682-1701 wg proj. Ephraim Schroegera. In the monastery building in the 1864-1988 it housed a theological seminary.

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