Grodzka Street

Place / Address:
From the Market Square
Wawel Castle



Grodzka Street is one of the oldest in Krakow. There was even before the foundation of the town in 1257. The organizers of the trade route north-south. Later was part of the so-called. salt route, leading to Wieliczka, Myślenice and continue until Hungary. Initially, the street ended at the fortification Okol - the former settlement between Wawel Castle and Krakow foundation charter - much older than the Krakow. This border was probably in the vicinity of today's street Senate.

Its initial section - at the Market Square - is characterized by a characteristically deformed projection, due to the location of the church of St. Wojciech standing still in the fourteenth century on a slight hill. The course and the width of the street has not changed since the Middle Ages. The exception is the section of the market - pl. Dominican, where the great fire (1850.), Withdrawn face reconstructed houses even frontage, thus extending the street a few meters.

When in the fourteenth century included eventually Krakow was the integration of urban and organize the two separated parts of so far today Grodzka Street, closed at the foot of the castle Grodzka Gate. Already in the fourteenth century building it was a brick street, and its shape - visible to this day - was established at the beginning of the end of the sixteenth century. It was then that her current name covered the entire street.
Grodzka Street is one of the most famous streets after the street. St. Florian. It is at these two streets you can meet a lot of apartments for rent. You can accomodation here beacuse there're lots of places for room rent.