Royal Route

After the rest. the side of the Royal Route before the intersection with ul. Traugutt, there is the Czapski palace complex (later Krasiński and Raczyński) – currently the seat of the Academy of Fine Arts. The establishment of the university is associated with the establishment of the University of Warsaw in 1816 r., which had the Faculty of Fine Arts. Its traditions were taken over by the 1844 r. School of Fine Arts, and after its closure launched in 1865 r. Drawing class, changed in 1920 r. at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting. W 1903 r. the Warsaw School of Fine Arts was established, transformed into 1932 r. at the Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, the university educates students at 6 faculties. In the building to the left of the main entrance to the courtyard, lived 1826 r. the Chopin family (inside a small museum exhibition, a commemorative plaque on the outer wall) and Cyprian Kamil Norwid (also a blackboard on the wall). The poet Zygmunt Krasiński stayed in the palace with his father (a board on one of the buildings from the side of ul. Traugutt).

On the same side, behind ul. Traugutt (under no. 1) the magnificent two-tower façade rises (built in the 18th century. wg proj. Józef and Jakub Fontanów) church. Holy Cross (missionary priests). In its present shape and form, the church was built between 1679-96 wg proj. Szymon Belotti on behalf of, among others. Primate Michał Stefan Radziejowski (buried in the crypt of the church) and was only slightly rebuilt. In front of the facade, a two-sided staircase with 1818 r., designed by Christian Piotr Aigner, and the figure of "Christ with the Cross" by Andrzej Pruszyński z 1858 r. (originally made in plaster, at the end of the 19th century. replaced by bronze casting). The church is a three-nave structure with a transept and a chapel of Our Lady on the left, two-level (under the upper church there is the lower church and tomb crypts). There are numerous tombstones inside, epitafia i tablice kommemoratywne m.in. in honor of Fryderyk Chopin, Władysław Reymont, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Juliusz Słowacki, Bolesław Prus and Andrzej Pruszyński. The pillars contain bricked up urns with Chopin's heart and Reymont's heart. In the church there are also plaques referring to the events of World War II devoted to the soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising and generals Władysław Sikorski and Roman Abraham. The commander of the Knight's School, Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, rests in the basement of the church, Marshal of the Great Sejm Stanisław Małachowski and the founder of the Infant Jesus Hospital, priest Gabriel Baudouin.

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