Long Street and Long Market forming the Royal Route are among the most beautiful streets in Gdansk. Long Market in the XVI and XVII centuries served as the stock market. Wealthy patricians lived here Gdansk, mayors, wealthy merchants, and almost every house has its own interesting history. The oldest houses date back to the Middle Ages, but most of the buildings from the modern era. Townhouses at Long are houses with narrow facades topped with gables or attics, richly decorated with coats of arms, allegorical figures and figures of ancient heroes. At Long Market ascend important secular buildings of the City: Main Town Hall and Artus Court.