Travel Guide
Market Square
Old Town Square Center is holding a non-uniform quadrilateral shape with dimensions about 100 x 50 m. The shape of the market and its environment differs slightly from the original appearance, is much larger and the west does not have a building. The market has actually built only three frontages - the southern, eastern and northern. The building frontage lacking today is only the western town hall. The current buildings in the west are the buildings located at J. Slovak Street. Preserved buildings form a three-story Market frontage or less two-storey houses damaged during the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The current building was shaped after the great fire of the Market in 1842, which completely destroyed all the houses. Originally they were probably wooden houses or partially brick (basement and ground floors). Initially, ground floor, then the bunk, the upper floors until the nineteenth century were usually made of wood. Market houses have spacious and deep cellars. Conducted over the past year working to prevent further devastation, and by the way, and the study of architectural and archaeological relics led to the unveiling of the original building and the disclosure of many mysteries that have shifted the market rise buildings by at least two centuries ago. The study also showed that the original layout of the Old Town buildings greatly differ from the status quo, and the level was much lower Market. As in almost every old city, so the old town of Rzeszow are dungeons and cellars deep hollow for centuries in defense and economic purposes (storage of goods). Market houses usually have two levels of basement sometimes reaching 10-12 m into the ground. The first levels of basements are built of stone or brick, and vaulted, while the lower floors were gouged out in the natural loess soil.
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