Rwańska street

From the moment of the location of the new Radom by Kazimierz Wielki, until the 19th century, the street ended with the Lublin gate - one of the three main city gates. Its name, preserved since the Old Polish times, can be derived from the word "rwa"-meaning ditch or excavation, which may indicate its original course through the area of ​​the former cemetery.

For centuries, Rwańska was a commercial and lame street, inhabited mainly by the Jewish community. The original wooden buildings have not survived to this day, but the nineteenth-century regulatory plan of the city has left many classicist tenement houses from the time of the Kingdom of Poland. The most valuable object at the street is the Gothic church of St. John the Baptist from the fourteenth century, funded by Kazimierz Wielki. Near the church there is a rococo figure of St. John of Nepomuk, and the west end of the street is closed by a monument to the Legions' Action - erected in 1930, destroyed by the occupier in 1940, and rebuilt in 1998. Today, Rwańska Street is an important walking and historical element of Radom, combining the space of a modern city with its royal past.