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Rakowicki cemetery was established in 1802 in Rakowice, then a village outside Krakow, now almost its downtown. It is still the biggest cemetery in Krakow. The first person to be buried there was the citizen of Krakow Apolonia Bursikowa. Many important for Krakow people were buried there later: Józef Dietl,

The Fowler Brotherhood is one of the oldest fellowships in the world, it was founded more than 700 years ago. Long ago guilds were responsible for protecting the city, so citizens of Krakow had to know how to fight. The Fowler brotherhood was training cracovians, preparing them to protect the

Seweryn was a son of infamous Jakub Boner and Jan Boner’s nephew. He was born in 1486 and died in 1549. He was a talented entrepreneur and banker, art and science patron. He inherited the house at Main Market Square 9 from his farther, you can still admire its beautiful

Boner is a dynasty of noble krakowians, mostly famous as merchants and bankers. The first Boner, Reinfeld, arrived to Krakow from Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany in the XV century. The first note about him can be found in Krakow city archives from the 1441. The most famous representatives of this family

Bonarka used to be a small village close to Krakow, mostly famous for the extraordinary clean water. That was the main reason why Jan Boner bought it at the beginning of the XVI century and established there a paper mill. Paper from Bonarka could be recognized by the watermark of

Błonia is a vast valley located around 1km from Krakow Old town. It is around 48ha of green grass surrounded by walking and cycle paths, popular place for dog walking, family and romantic picnics. The history of it is not so positive. It used to be a marshland with small

Idrisi Muhammed al was an Arab geographer and cartographer born in 1100. He studied in Córdoba, Spain, then traveled a lot. He became secretary of the commission set up to map the world. Al-Idrisi collected information about the contemporary world himself, and also used the stories of other travelers, merchants,

Igołomia is a village located about 25 km east of Krakow. It became famous for the archaeological discoveries carried out in its area. In 1930, the first pottery furnaces were discovered here, and a dozen or so years later, dugouts, human graves and smoke-boxes, i.e. pig iron smelting furnaces. In

“Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny” (“IKC”) was the most popular Polish daily newspaper before the war. The Sunday edition usually had 250,000 copies, which was the highest circulation in Poland at that time. The newspaper was founded by the publisher and editor-in-chief Marian Dąbrowski. The first copy appeared on December 17 1910

The Bohdan Nestor Łepki Museum is a non-existent museum that was founded in 1994 and was located at 28 Paulińska Street in Krakow. The Bohdan Nestor Łepki Educational Association helped to organize the museum. The museum had only a few rooms, but it housed many paintings, icons, graphics and models of