 From in front of the Palace, "royal" funeral processions used to begin, hence its popular name at the time, "royal mortuary".The funeral parade of King Sigismund III Vasa started there on February 4, 1633.Around the sixteenth century, the Palace on the Way (or, "on the Road") was one of the most prominent noble residences in the area of Kleparz within the jurisdiction of Szlak.