Catalog · Monuments
Old Town Monuments
Walls, gates, tenement houses, and monuments inscribed in the Old Town landscape. Descriptions are prepared by the editors in cooperation with historians.
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Warsaw Barbican
A Renaissance defensive structure from 1548, connecting the Old and New Towns. Rebuilt after the war based on 17th-century engravings.
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Old Town Defensive Walls
A double ring of city walls from the 14th–16th centuries, featuring towers and an inner wall walk surrounding the Old Town.
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Nowomiejska Gate
Remains of a medieval gate leading from the Old Town Market Square toward the New Town, situated adjacent to the Barbican.
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Powder Tower (Baszta Prochowa)
A brick tower within the defensive walls, formerly used as a gunpowder storehouse.
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Kamienica Fukierowska
A Renaissance tenement house at Old Town Market Square 27, home to the famous Fukier winery since the 17th century.
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Bornbach Tenement House
Corner tenement at Old Town Market Square 2, also called Winkler's House and 'the Little Monastery'. Gothic cellars, Jesuit boarding house, old tradition of Piotr Skarga and the Old Town Culture Centre.
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Czempińska Tenement House (Strubicz)
House at Old Town Market Square 4 with medieval origins and a post-war facade decorated with a sgraffito of the Basilisk and a shoemaker holding a mirror.
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Kamienica Pod Murzynkiem
A historic tenement house at Rynek Starego Miasta 36, featuring a characteristic emblem of a young Moor.
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Baryczko House
A Renaissance tenement house with a richly decorated façade, one of the most valuable on the Zakrzewski side of the Old Town Market Square.
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St. Anne’s Tenement House
A tenement house on the Old Town Market Square featuring a statue of Saint Anne in a facade niche, a prime example of Warsaw Mannerism.
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Kranichowska Tenement House
A corner tenement house at Old Town Market Square 15, at the junction of the Market Square, Zapiecek and Piwna streets, with a clock and a plaque commemorating the reconstruction of the Old Town.
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Giza Tenement House
Tenement linked to the wealthy Giza family and Barbara Giżanka, mistress of King Sigismund Augustus. A modest wrought-iron door by the entrance leads to the old merchants' cellars.
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