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People Associated with the Old Town
Rulers, architects, artists, residents, and legendary figures whose fates are intertwined with Warsaw's Old Town.
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Sigismund III Vasa
The King who moved the Polish capital from Krakow to Warsaw in 1596, commemorated by the Column on Castle Square.
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John III Sobieski
The victor of the Battle of Vienna and founder of the Church of the Sisters of the Holy Sacrament on New Town Market Square.
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Bernardo Bellotto, known as Canaletto
Court painter to Stanisław August, creator of Warsaw vedute that served as the blueprint for the post-war reconstruction of the Old Town.
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Jan Zachwatowicz
Architect, general conservator of monuments, and the primary author of the concept for rebuilding the Old Town after 1945.
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Stanisław Jankowski "Agaton"
AK 'Cichociemny', architect and urban planner after the war, co-author of the Warsaw reconstruction plan and the Old Warsaw Route.
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Jan Kiliński
A Warsaw shoemaker and colonel of the Kościuszko Uprising, commemorated with a monument at Podwale Street.
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Maria Skłodowska-Curie
A two-time Nobel Prize winner, born in 1867 at Freta 16 — her family home is now a Museum dedicated to her name.
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Hugo Kołłątaj
Priest, philosopher, and co-author of the Constitution of May 3rd — patron of one of the sides of the Old Town Market Square.
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Warsaw Mermaid (Syrenka)
The legendary protector of Warsaw and the city's coat of arms — the monument by Ludwika Nitschowa stands on the Old Town Market Square.
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Basilisk of Krzywe Koło
A legendary monster from the dungeons of Krzywe Koło Street who turned people to stone with its gaze.
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Bernard Gilly
An 18th-century giant measuring approximately 3 meters, publicly exhibited from 1764 to 1765 in the Dulfus tenement house at the corner of Freta and Długa streets.
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