On a steamy afternoon it is pleasant to enter through the fort's original portal.
In 1716 the façade was rebuilt, with the addition of numerous statues, but maintaining the fine original portal.
The original portal has several inscriptions in Gothic characters.
The original portal, now closed behind a wall, has vegetable decorations similar to the Cathedral's ones.
Making swimming motions, he managed to find the original portal that brought him there and slipped back through it.
The original portals were replaced with new ones, designed by Peder Malling.
Also I think your view of the original portal is just being a bit nostalgic.
The building was rebuilt with its original baroque portal intact following wartime destruction of the Polish capital.
In the Romanesque façade, two of the three original portals are still existing.
The façade presents an original Romanesque portal and single lancet window.