Meisels Beer was a rabbi and patriotic activist. He was born in 1798 in Szczekociny. He was engaged in banking. Together with his wife, he founded the banking company Meisels and Bornstein. He lived in Kazimierz, Krakow, where one of the streets is named after him today. He was very

Kochanów was a manor house built in 1839 by Jan Jancenty Kochanowski and his wife Magdalena, née Dembińska. It was located at the corner of Straszewskiego and Wolska streets (today Piłsudskiego). The manor house housed the first daguerreotype workshop of Szymon Żabiński in Krakow. Later, a tenement house was built on

Until 1939, there were 7 consulates in Kraków. These were the Argentine, Austrian, Czechoslovak, Greek, German, Peruvian and Hungarian consulates. Currently, there are the following consulates in Krakow: Montenegro Consulate in Krakow2 Papiernicza street Consulate of the Federative Republic of Brazil in Krakow38 Modrzewiowa street Consulate General of the Empire

Miłosz Czesław was a poet, essayist, novelist, translator and literary historian. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. He was born in 1911 in Szetejnie, Lithuania. For 5 years he studied law at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, then he was also one of the organizers of

St. Margaret and St. Judith Chapel is a small, wooden church located on ul. Blessed Bronisława. The place is associated with pagan times. Legend has it that two statues of the gods of wind stood near Krakow: Świst on Mount Lasota and Poświst, in the place where the described chapel

Korzeniowski’s Nałęcz Apollo was a poet, playwright, and translator. was born in 1820 in Honoratka in Podolia, he was the father of Joseph Conrad. He studied Oriental studies and law in St. Petersburg, then moved to Warsaw, where he edited the “Dwutygodnik” magazine. He collaborated with pre-uprising underground groups and

Korpalowie is a well-known family of artists, mainly painters and sculptors, who came to Krakow probably in the 18th century from Podlasie. Famous family members: Korpal, Michał Adam Korpal, Michał Stefan Korpal Alexander Korpal Tadeusz Korpal Grażyna

Korpal Grażyna was a painter, conservator and granddaughter of Tadeusz, born in 1945. She studied Mediterranean archeology at the Jagiellonian University and painting conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She also studied in Siene, Italy for some time. She is the author of many publications, won many

Korpal Tadeusz was a painter and teacher. He was the son of Michał Stefan and younger brother of Aleksander, and he was born in 1889. In his youth he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and at the same time taught drawing at the II Realna School.

Korpal Aleksander was a painter, sculptor and teacher. He was the son of Michał Stefan and was born in 1881. He received his first education from his father, then he attended the Higher Industrial School, and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Later he studied in Vienna and