In the corner of Kanonia square in Old Town you can notice the narrowest house in Warsaw and in whole Europe and one of the 10 narrowest in the world.
In the 17/18th centuries the tax from the house depended on how wide it was, so this was the reason they built rather high, but narrow buildings :)
For the January 2011 Monthly Challenge - "GATES AND GATEWAYS"
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