Royal Route – monuments

Pałac Pod Blachą (Lubomirski) is a partial reconstruction after paintings by Bernardo Bellotto of Canaletto, developed in years 1948-1949. The original palace from 1698-1701 burned in 1944 year. The Masonic Lodge from the second half of the 17th century is located on the slope under the palace.

Church of St. Anna (post-Bernardine, academic), arose after 1454 year, expanded in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In year 1788 Stanisław Kostka Potocki and Chrystian Piotr Aigner designed a Baroque-Classicist façade with sculptures by Jakub Monaldi and Franciszek Pinck. During the construction of the W-Z Route, the church was in danger of collapsing due to the sliding slope, the temple was saved by reinforcing the slope with reinforced concrete pillars. The monastery has a diamond vault and a Gothic hall with a vault on one pillar (was established at the beginning of the 16th century). Colonnade at the church designed by Ch. P. Aigner comes from years 1819-1821, and the present belfry is a post-war reconstruction of the neo-renaissance belfry, also designed by Ch. P. Aignera.

(Krakow suburb 68)

Wśród stojących naprzeciwko dzwonnicy kamienic wyróżnia się tzw. John's townhouse (Krakow suburb 89), with a facade composed in 1949 year according to a painting by Bernardo Bellotto of Canaletto from the 18th century. The tenement house was erected on the W-Z Route, and the ground floor and the basement were adapted to the escalator, mounted here in 1949 year. In years 1947-1949 zrekonstruowano także sąsiednią późnobarokową the Prażmowski tenement house (original from the end of the 18th century). Na rogu ulicy Miodowej stoi Dom Roeslera in Hurtiga (Krakow suburb 79), being a partial reconstruction of the building erected in 1784-1785 by architect Szymon Bogumił Zug.

Tenement houses at Krakowskie Przedmieście (27-71) were created in the years 1948- 1951 like “Krakowskie Przedmieście housing estate”. The stylized pseudo-historic facades imitate in a way typical of socialist realism the 1939- 1944 tenement houses from the end of the 17th and 18th centuries. At the exit of Kozia Street, on the corner of Trębacka Street there is a building of the General Prosecutor's Office, which alludes to the burned out in years 1939-1944 so-called. Saska Post Office from the end of the 18th century (or the Wessel Palace).

Neorenesansowy building of Resursa Obywatelska (Krakow suburb 64) was created in the years 1860-1861 based on a design by Edward Cichocki. Burnt in 1944 year, was rebuilt for the purpose of a holiday home. Currently, it is the seat of the Society for Cooperation with the Polish Diaspora “Poland”. Sąsiaduje z budynkiem A sad sacred thing, which is also a partial reconstruction of the building of the Discalced Carmelite Sisters from the 17th century (of the Jan Baptista Gisleni project). For a year 1818 was owned by the Warsaw Charity Society, for which Antoni Corazzi rebuilt the village of 1819 a chapel with a cast-iron structure located here. Currently, the building is the seat of the Catholic Association “Caritas”. Na skwerze stoi barokowy statue of Our Lady of Passau with 1683 year, erected by Józef Szymon Bellotti, with lanterns from approx 1880 year designed by Józef Dietrich.

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