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Architecture (continuation):

The Royal Castle amazes with some of the most beautiful chambers in Europe, i.a. Rooms of the Grand Apartment - consisting of the Great (Ball) Room, the Knights' Room, the Throne Room, the Marble Room and the Conference Room, the Senate Chamber called the Constitution of May 3rd Chamber (as the famous act was ratified here) and the King's Apartment. Communicating Princes' rooms were designated as the location for a series of paintings of Matejko, Rembrandt, Canaletto and Bacciarelli.

In front of the Royal castle there is an irregular Castle Square, where the main road to the city led through the Cracovian Gate. Nowadays the Sisigmund's Column on the Castle Square is the oldest monument in Poland (1644).

The castle adjons the Old Town - charming, mysterious, full of narrow streets and unexpected corners. With numerous churches (St John Cathedral built in the beginning of the 14th century, St Martin's Church, the Jesuit Church, Church of the Assumption, church and convent of the Nuns of the Holy Sacrament etc.), precious, old, late Renaissance or Baroque tenement houses ("At st Ann's", Fukier with the inside gallery court, "House of the Little Negro") with cheerful music during a day and romantic music during evenings. In the middle of the Old Town's Square the mermaid figure raises proudly a shield in one hand and a sword in the other - it is the symbol of the city. Colourful parasols over cafes' gardens, stalls with flowers and souvenirs, paintings resembling an open air art gallery, they all create the atmosphere of the Old Town's Square. At the periphery of the Old Town one can admire its battlements, and especially the Barbican from 1548 which was supposed to defend the city from the north.

At the edge of the Old Town St Ann's Church built in 1454 is located. It was destroyed and rebuilt several times over three centuries so we can say it is a masterpiece of many epochs. The interior of the building presents splendour art style and it is probably in the best state of preservation of all Warsaw churches.

The Holy Cross Church is also astonishing with epitaphs and commemorative plaques devoted to distinguished Poles, people of art and science, which made a kind of national Panteon of this place. It is the resting place of Chopin's heart, commemorative plaques and monuments of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Juliusz Słowacki, Władysław Reymont, Bolesław Prus are also located here.