Warsaw Old Town

Krzywe Koło Street runs along the old defensive walls. The name comes from the broken street. From the old buildings, today you can see only the remains of probably the oldest building in the Old Town of Warsaw from the 14th century (under no 6) and a late-gothic brick frieze with a T-shaped motif on the facade (no 7).

Kamienne Stairs Street in the Middle Ages led to the White Gate in the city walls. From the end of the 18th century it was given its present name, suggesting replacing the wooden steps with stone ones. Hence, in 1806 During the year, Emperor Napoleon, accompanied by Prince Józef Poniatowski and surrounded by his entourage, watched the Vistula River.

Nazwa Wąski Dunaj street comes from the Danube stream flowing from the adjacent Wide Dunaj square. Tenement houses from the years 1949-1961 was decorated with sgraffits and polychrome by the visual artist Edmund Burke.

Szeroki Dunaj Street it's an old market. Currently, the square is decorated with a well from the 19th century, set here in 1970 year in place of the well existing since the 17th century, which was a capture of a spring called the Danube. Among the current buildings, dating from the years 1949- 1955, zwraca uwagę tenement “At the Butcher's Gate” (often mistakenly referred to as the Executioner's House) with the passage of the Butcher's Gate. This picturesque building was designed by architect Bruno Zborowski in the years 1962-1964 based on the appearance given to it in 1938 year by arch. Jan Zachwatowicz.

Already Nowomiejskia Street zwraca uwagę tenement house no 11 “Under Christ” (differently “Under the Figure” or “Salvator”), named after the statue of Christ by Jacob Monaldi (from the 2nd half of the eighteenth century), which formerly adorned the façade. During the scheduled “atheization” during the period of socialist realism, the sculpture was removed. Sgraffito was made by Zofia Kowalska and Mirosława Karpińska.

 

 

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