Kanonia is a small, triangle square right behind the cathedral whose name comes from the old tenement houses, which in the 17th c. were inhabited by canons (priests).
There used to be a parish cemetery here, the remains of which is a baroque 18th c. statue of the Mother of God. In the centre of the square there is a large gunmetal bell from the 17th c., which has never hung in a church. It is said thet going around it there times brings luck.
Kanonia is also the place to see tle oldest in Warsaw plaque with the name of a street and the narrowest house in the Polish capital - it is only one window wide if you look at it from the square, but it is much wider if you look at it from the Vistula River.
This was a clever idea of the house owner, who in this way avoided paying a high land tax, as the land tax depended on the width of the facade.
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