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The Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks, previously known as the Lenin Steelworks. It is located in the Nowa Huta district in Krakow. It is the second largest steel plant in Poland. The construction of the steelworks began in 1950. In 1953, the first cast iron was smelted there. In 1954, the first

In the ground-floor part of the royal castle, in the north-eastern corner, coronation insignia, money and valuables were kept. The treasury consists of four rooms: the ground floor, the Jadwiga and Jagiełło room, the room on the ground floor of King Sigismund III’s tower, and the Renaissance room already in

The present treasury building was built by Hanusz Blatfuss from Koszyce. Valuable items have been collected there for centuries. According to the inventory from 1563, there were 120 chalices, crosses, reliquaries, pacificals, chasubles and capes. Defeats, robberies, wars, confiscations caused a great impoverishment of the treasury. The Treasury repeatedly helped

The custom of changing clothes was preserved only in Wieliczka and Lednica. It is always celebrated on the second day of Easter, and it is associated with the celebration of the pagan goddess of spring – Leda. Her temple was right there. An eternal candle burned in the shingle, watched

The entire eastern part of the Sowiniec range in the Wolski Forest, starting from the Vistula River. Apparently, the name comes from the fact that there are many titmouses in this forest. When in 1702 the chapel of Bl. Bronisława, this part of Sikornik began to be called the Bronisława

Novelist, social activist, born in Wola Okrzejska in Podlasie, died in Vevey, Switzerland. He studied law and historical sciences at the Main School in Warsaw. He collaborated with many magazines such as “Niwa”, “Word”, “Gazeta Polska” and others. During the war, he stayed in Switzerland. His novels such as “Quo

Poet, literary critic, translator. He died in Kraków and is buried in the Crypt of Merit at Skałka. A participant in the November Uprising, after its fall, he stayed in Lviv, where he took part in the local literary life, an underground activist of democratic unions, a member of the

A priest, educator, social activist, born in Dyckojno near Kaunas in Lithuania, died in Kraków. He came from a family of parochial nobility. After graduating from high school in Vilnius, he entered the 20th Missionaries’ Seminary in Krakow, and then was ordained a priest in Lviv. He became the provincial

Former village, today a suburb located on the southern highway route of Krakow. It is one of the oldest settlements near Krakow, recorded as early as 1105, when it belonged to the Tyniec Abbey. On the slope of the hill called Babice, brine flowed, from which the Tyniec nuns obtained

Also known as Sendivogius Polonus, born in Sącz and died in Kraków. Alchemist and secretary of King Sigismund III and councilor of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. He was also a mining specialist at the court of the German emperor. Known in the world at that time for his attempts