Farna Street, Bydgoszcz
Farna Street is a street located in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Many of its buildings are either registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, or part of Bydgoszcz local history. Location The street is located in the north-western part Bydgoszcz Old Town. It runs roughly along an east–west axis, connecting the Old Market square () to Przyrzecze Street near Mill Island. It is about 110 m long. History Farna Street was laid out in the middle of the 14th century, during the formation of Bydgoszcz Old Town. It connected the north-western corner of the Old Market Square to the parish church () and to the streets: Jezuicka and Przyrzecze. The current architecture of the church dates back to the 15th century. In the vicinity of the edifice a cemetery had been standing until 1809, which gate and fences gave stood Farna Street. The history of this part of the city is related to the Order of the Jesuits, which owned a majority of the dwellings located between today's Farna, Jezuicka, Niedźwiedzia streets and the Old Market Square. In 1619, the Society of Jesus erected a monastery here and around 1640, the construction of two Jesuit buildings on the Market Square closed one side