St John's Cathedral

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  • Address
    ul Świętojańska 8, Old Town
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    022 831 02 89

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Back towards Castle Sq stands the restored neo-Gothic façade of St John's Cathedral. The oldest of Warsaw's churches, it was built at the beginning of the 15th century on the site of a wooden church, and subsequently remodelled several times.

Razed during WWII, it regained its Gothic shape through postwar reconstruction. Look for the red-marble Renaissance tomb of the last dukes of Mazovia in the right-hand aisle, then go downstairs to the crypt to see more tombstones, including that of Nobel prize-winning writer Henryk Sienkiewicz.