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English: St Florian's Gate or ‘Florian Gate’ in Kraków, Poland, is one of the best-known Polish Gothic towers, and a focal point of Kraków Old Town.

The tower, first mentioned in 1307, had been built as part of a protective rampart around Kraków after the Tatar attack of 1241 which destroyed most of the city. The permit for the construction of new city defenses featuring stone watchtowers, fortified gates and a moat was issued by Prince Leszek II the Black in 1285. The gate named after St Florian became the main entryway to the Old Town. It was connected by a long bridge to the circular barbican (Barbakan) erected of brick on the other side of the moat. The Gate was manned by the Kraków Furriers Guild. According to records, by 1473 there were seventeen towers defending the city; a century later, there were thirty-three. At the height of its existence, the wall featured forty-seven watchtowers and eight gates. Also, in 1565–66 a municipal arsenal was built next to St Florian's Gate. The Gate tower is 33.5 metres tall. The Baroque metal "helmet" that crowns the gate, constructed in 1660 and renovated in 1694, adds another metre to the height of the gate. “Brama Floriańska” is the only city gate, of the original eight built in the Middle Ages, that was not dismantled during the 19th-century ‘modernization’ of Kraków. The adjoining city walls and two additional smaller towers had been preserved and today host street displays of amateur art.

The south face of St Florian's Gate is adorned with an 18th-century bas-relief of St Florian. The tower's north face bears a stone eagle that was carved in 1882 by Zygmunt Langman, based on a design by painter Jan Matejko. Inside the gate is an altar with a late-Baroque copy of a classicist painting of the Piaskowa Madonna.
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