The best-preserved fragments of the fortification are those parallel to Podwale street, from the Warsaw Royal Castle to the Barbican and further to the Vistula Embankment.
The Royal Castle a) Town Gate 2. a) Arch cathedral of St John the Baptist b) Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesuit monastery c) Church of St Martin and Franciscan convent (formerly Augustinian monastery) 3.
The fortification included numerous towers and turrets (the majority of them had a rectangular shape).
In 1379, as a result of a special privilege, Prince Janusz I the Elder, made the townspeople responsible for the maintenance of the town walls.
After the World War II reconstruction work proceeded in 1953–1954, however, concerning only some particularly interesting and attractive sections, for example Barbican.