Elementary disasters

Elementary disasters destroyed Krakow and its monuments for many millennia.

They were:

  • 16 sieges and occupations, not counting the Tatar invasions
  • 36 outbreaks of plague and epidemics such as plague, pestilence, fever, smallpox, cholera
  • 13 catastrophic floods
  • 28 huge fires
  • earthquake
  • Locust raid
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