The palace is located at Józefa Piłsudskiego 4 street in Krakow. It was established in 1879 according to a design by Filip Pokutyński. Later it housed Resursa Krakowska. These were the headquarters of Krakow equestrian societies. The palace was bombed during World War II. Rebuilt after the war, right now

The palace located at 5 Topolowa Street in Krakow, erected in the neoclassical style in 1901 – 1904 for Leon Mańkowski, designed by Józef Sowinski and Władysław Kaczmarski. Its rich interior decorations have been preserved. After World War II, the palace was the residence of Kraków voivodes, and in 1954

As you may see in the title – Zygmunt Robel was a toxicologist. However, his history is far more interesting. He was born in 1886 in Krakow as a son of a military official. Graduated Jaggielonian University – in 1912 ended his Ph.D. in chemistry. During his studies, Robel did

Located at 18 Tyniecka Street, in the Dębniki district in Krakow. In the 19th century, a late-classicist villa was erected on the foundations of an old building. In the 1870s, the villa was expanded into a palace by adding a floor, a tower and a neo-renaissance façade. At the end

Is located at 20 Straszewskiego street in Krakow. It was built according to the design of Maksymilian Nitsch. It is characterized by the neo-renaissance style, as evidenced by the columned loggias between two avant-corps referring to the old city buildings. In the years 1970-1977 it was restored.

There was no room for a palace in the urban concept of Krakow. It was a building that was contrary to the assumptions of the founding city, limited by defensive walls, where every square meter of area was worth its weight in gold. The thirteenth century urban planner divided the

Flows through the city from the west to the east, below Kraków turns north-east. Flowing through the eastern end of the Grzbiet Tęczyński , it creates a amazing ravine. During a low water level, 26 cubic meters of water flow down the Vistula per second, during an average state of

Bielany is the name of the south-western part of Las Wolski, forest located only around 7km from Krakow city centre. The central part of Bielany is Srebrna Góra(Silver Mountain), high hill with a Camaldolese monastery on the top of it. The name of the convent comes from the name of

Wojciech Bednarski, a teacher and a social activist, was born in 1841 in Kunice and died in 1914 in Krakow. In 1869-1894 he was a headmaster of the first primary school in Podgórze, he was also a mayor of Podgórze, which is now one of the Krakow’s central districts, but

Jerzy Potrzebowski was born in Sandomierz in 1921 year. His paintings were strongly related to his experiences and history. His way up to the top was bumpy – in his early twenties, when World War II started, he became a resistance movement member. He was preparing false documents, distributed underground