Kościół pw. Świętego Floriana
Kościół pw. Świętego Floriana is more than a Roman Catholic church: it anchors the start of Kraków’s Royal Road at the northern end of Jan Matejko Square, marking the former centre of medieval Kleparz. The original St. Florian’s Church was built between 1185 and 1216, and it endured repeated fires across the 12th, 16th and 17th centuries. The most consequential survival came in 1528, when a citywide fire consumed much of Kraków—but this church, holding St. Florian’s relics, did not. In Poland, St. Florian is revered as the patron saint of firefighters and chimney sweeps, and the long tradition traces back even further to a legend from 1184: oxen carrying his remains supposedly became too heavy to proceed into the city, leaving the relics in Kleparz. …
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