Old and New Town

We continue along ul. Pain and we turn left into an alley leading along the Vistula escarpment. We come to the stairs situated at the height of the parish church. pw. Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We go up the stairs. This church is one of the oldest parish churches in Warsaw. It was erected in 1410 r. from the Duchess of Mazovia Anna, rebuilt at the end of the 15th century, extended in 2 half. XVI w. It was seriously damaged during the Swedish invasion and during the Warsaw Uprising; then rebuilt. It is a gothic building, brick, three-nave with a polygonal closed presbytery. A stellar vault in the chancel and aisles, traces of medieval polychrome in the left nave, in the presbytery, gothic arches of former galleries. In the neighborhood from the south. turned out, three-story brick belfry built in 2 half. 17th century. In front of the church there is a monument to Walerian Łukasiński (1786-1868) – an outstanding patriotic activist, co-organizer of Polish Freemasonry and the National Patriotic Society, which in 1822 r. he lived in a house at ul. by the square 4. Monument unveiled in 1987 r. was made according to the design. Andrzej Kasten.

Then we go along ul. On foot to the church of the Redemptorists. st. Benona. The first church – wood – was erected in 1629 r. by the German Catholic organization, Brotherhood of St.. Benona. From the middle of. 17th century. was replaced with an early-baroque brick building, single-nave with a semicircular chancel. W 1787 r. the church was taken over by the Redemptorists led by St.. Klemens Dworzak. W XIX w. the building housed the Gerlach metal products factory, and then Bieńkowski's knife factory. W 1938 r. handed over to the Warsaw Curia for the purpose of a church. After post-war reconstruction, it was reconciled and taken over by the Redemptorists.

We go again along ul. On foot and we come to the New Town Square. It is an irregularly shaped square of various levels. Originally, it was almost twice as large as the Old Town Square. In the middle of the 1818 r. was the town hall.

After east. on the side of the square there is the church of the SS. Sacraments of. st. Casimir, baroque, built in the years 1688-89 wg proj. Tylman of Gameren, Maria Kazimiera Sobieska as a votive offering for the victory of King Jan III Sobieski at Vienna and the future mausoleum of the Sobieski family. It is laid out on the plan of a Greek cross and covered with a high one, octagonal tambour with a dome with a lantern. Inside, there are paintings covering the walls and the dome, made according to the design. Augustine Wincenty Locci. The church has a marble tombstone of Maria Karolina de Bouillon – granddaughters of the king, exhibited in 1746 r., made by Lorentz Mattielli. Jan is also buried here – son of the king, and Maria Józefa née Wessel – daughter-in-law of the monarch.

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