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The Floating Bridge was built on the Vistula River in Kraków after the Charles Bridge was destroyed by the flood. The construction of this bridge was necessary because connecting the two banks of the Vistula was very important for economic reasons.

The Wooden Bridge is a former bridge built in 1828 as the second bridge on the Old Vistula in Krakow. It used to connect the city with the slaughterhouse established in 1818-1819.

The bridge in Czerna is a former bridge (now ruins) in Czerna near Krakow, unique on a European scale. It was built in the years 1667-1695 on the Eliaszówka river. A stone bridge connected the two hills on which the Hermitaria of the Carmelite monastery were located. The total length

Painter, born in Lviv in 1823, died in Krakow in 1894. He graduated from law in Vienna and studied painting there. From 1846 he stayed in Paris, Venice, Lviv and Stanisławów. Activist of various artistic societies, president of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts, co-organizer of the National Museum

There are several reserves in Krakow. Two floristic reserves:Skałki Bielańskie: at the foot of the Camdeulian monastery in Bielany in the Wolski Forest, the rocks are protected by mixed forest, and in the lower part – thickets of oak hazel and elm.Skałki Przegorzalskie: on the Vistula slope, rare plants and

On the night of February 20-21, 1846, an uprising against the partitioners broke out in Krakow. It lasted 9 days and fell as a result of a military action taken by Austrian and Russian invaders. The uprising, prepared for several years by the Poznań Centralization of the Polish Democratic Society,

A term in economics that means restoring the former value of money. This term has also been adopted as a term for the renovation of architectural monuments in order to use them in accordance with their value. The attitude of the city authorities and the society towards the monuments from

Poet, born in 1505 in Żórawin near Halicz, died in 1569, probably in Rejowiec near Chełm. The son of a nobleman from Nagłowice, he sealed himself with the Oksza coat of arms. He studied in Skalbmierz, then in Lviv and the Krakow Academy, but after a year he interrupted his

A canon who died in 1694, chronicler of the monastery of Canons Regular Lateran, author of the history of Kazimierz and Krakow. He came from a middle-class family. In 1637, he joined the Order of Regular Lateran Canons at the Corpus Christi church, they were commonly known as sacred houses.

The Royal Bridge was a brick and stone bridge over the Old Vistula in Krakow, which once connected Stradom with Kazimierz. The bridge no longer exists. In 1883 the Old Vistula riverbed was filled in and then the bridge was pulled down.