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Hotel and catering complex, built in 1963. It has 823 beds, 215 of which are in single and double rooms, the rest for 8 persons. This is where PTTK’s foreign tourism offices and editorial offices are located. The patron of the House – Prof. Kazimierz Sosnowski was a well-known tourist

In 1948, a state institution for programming, methodology and organization of socio-cultural activities was established, later called Community Center. The first place in Krakow was in the Pod Baranami palace, at Rynek Glowny 27 st.Like many others, this institution was reorganized and resulted in the creation of Provinvial level. Centeres

This term is about public transport appeared in Krakow at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1850, 29 horse-drawn carriages were registered. A one-mile course cost about 20/40 cutters, over 50 cutters. Night courses were more expensive than daytime courses. Moreover, second-class carriages were cheaper. There are two-seater vehicles

The figure of God the Father is an old baroque figure from the 18th century located at the intersection of Wielicka and Powstańców Śląskich streets, formerly marking the borders of Podgórze. The sculpture is placed under a tin canopy at the top of a chapel with a multi-story pedestal. After

Bosutów is a small village located north of Krakow, through which flows the Sudoł stream. The village was one of the most important points on the Kościuszko Route. After the victory at Racławice, the commander of the insurrection, Tadeusz Kościuszko, stood here in a fortified camp along with 8,000 insurgents.

Bandtkie Jerzy Samuel was an outstanding bibliographer, linguist and researcher of Silesia. He was born in 1768 in Lublin and died in 1835 in Kraków. For some time he taught Polish in Wrocław. In 1811 he moved to Krakow, where he obtained a doctorate from the Jagiellonian University. Later, he

Azory is the name of one of the districts of Krakow located west of the city center. There used to be fields and wastelands there, but in 1932 single-family houses were built there. The estate was called Azory because it was so far from the center that it was considered

Janowa Wola is a former village that stretched between Wola Duchacka, Łagiewniki and Zabłocie, which today belong to Krakow. The village was developing very well, but it was completely destroyed during the Swedish war in 1655-1657. After the first partition of Poland in 1772, Janowa Wola was under Austrian rule.

Janiszewski Tomasz Wiktor was a doctor, hygienist, social activist, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw, as well as the first minister of health in reborn Poland. He was born in 1867 in Warsaw and died in 1939 in Brok on the Bug River. From 1886 he

Jachimecki Zdzisław was a musicologist, art historian and composer, born in 1882 in Lviv. He died in 1953 in Krakow. He studied in Vienna for 4 years, and later lectured at the Jagiellonian University. He has published in various scientific journals, encyclopedias and dictionaries. He also composed choral and solo