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KAT – The Master of Holy Justice is a man who punished people with torture. His appearance was very distinctive, he wore white, red and green pieces of cloth sewn on his sleeve. The executioners worked mainly in the basement, officially known as torture chambers. Types of torture The executioners

A Polish social and independence activist, soldier, politician, and statesman who lived in the years 1867-1935. From 1893, a member of the three-person Central Workers’ Committee of the PPS, in 1894-1900 the editor-in-chief of Robotnik. During this time, he often stayed in Krakow. In 1901, after successfully escaping the arrest

John Paul II named Karol Wojtyła, born in 1920 in Wadowice, died in 2005. In the early years, he studied in Wadowice, but in 1938 he began his studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow at the Faculty of Philosophy, and in 1939 he began his passion for theater at

Kapists were members of the Paris Committee, which was established in 1923 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. It consisted of 11 people, students of Józef Pankiewicz, whose aim was to go to Paris to study painting. The members of the committee were: Seweryn Boraczok Jan Cybis Józef

Indermach is a German word used in Krakow to name the apartments located at the back of tenements or even separate buildings located behind them. Tenement, or kamienica in Polish, is an old stone or brick building that abuts similar houses and forms the street frontage.  To reach the indermach

Is an attractive tourist destination, beautifully situated in a deep valley in the Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska range, about 30 km north of the city center. The Ojców Valley is basically a huge rock chasm with perpendicular, white limestone walls, with the Prądnik River flowing in the middle. This is where one

The science of botany for medical purposes was taught at the Jagiellonian University from the end of the 16th century, but the university did not have its own research garden. Rector Kazimierz Stępowski in 1756 allocated 5,000 zlotys for preliminary works on the establishment of the garden. This idea was

The first sky observations were made in Krakow from the roof of Collegium Maius. Among the researchers is a student of the Krakow Academy – Mikołaj Kopernik. Research tools from those years are kept in the museum of the Jagiellonian University. We should also menion the observatory arranged by ks.

Theater and music critic and journalist. In 1900-1902 he worked as a journalist in Głos Narodu in Kraków, and in 1902-1915 he was the deputy editor-in-chief of Czas. He was one of the founders of the Zielony Balonik cabaret, composer and performer of music for most of the songs sung

He was a poet, prose writer, playwright, draftsman and translator. He is considered to be the greatest Polish writer. His most famous works are Promethidion, Quidam, Zwolon, Behind the Scenes, the Great Lady’s Ring and Chopin’s Piano. The artist visited Krakow, and for a short time stayed there, visiting other