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The mikvah is a large bathhouse located at the corner of Miodowa street 6 and  Dajwór street in Krakow. In the Kazimierz district there was another bathhouse near the square Nowy. In accordance with religious requirements, women of the Jewish faith were not allowed to participate in non-Jewish bathing places,

The museum is located at 24 Lubicz Street in Krakow and was created by Odon’s grandchildren. They founded it to perpetuate the memory of their grandfather, a great bacteriologist and social worker, a student of Robert Koch. He created tuberculin and also modified the Pasteurian rabies treatment. In the museum,

Museum of Emeryka Hutten-Czapskiego is one of the branches of the National Museum located at 12 Józefa Piłsudskiego Street. The collections that can be admired in the museum come from his private collection and include 11 thousand. medals, coins, orders, banknotes and engravings, as well as an extensive library. The

Rydlówka is a museum dedicated to one event – a wedding, which took place in the manor house in Bronowice Małe in Krakow, where the most controversial wedding took place on the 20th of November 1900, which echoed in Young Poland’s literature, because the poet, the son of a university

The museum located at 28 Paulińska Street in Krakow was established in 1994 with the help of the Stowarzyszenie Oświatowe, but does no longer exist. The museum in its many rooms collected not only paintings, icons and graphics, but also models of orthodox churches that were destroyed or taken over

Jaksa from Miechów was a magnate of Lesser Poland, he came from the Gryfit family. In 1162 he decided to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He brought monks from the congregation of the Holy Sepulcher from there and founded a monastery in Miechów. He founded the second monastery

The Krakow Chamber of Tourism was established on April 4, 1992 by 65 tourist offices, hotels and restaurants. Its main goal is to raise the profile of tourism in Krakow, protect economic interests and run a tourist information center. The main tasks are to ensure the high quality of tourist

Abraham ben Jacob was born in the year 912 or 913. He was a traveler as well as a Jewish-Arab merchant from Tortosa, Spain. Abraham ben Jacob wrote about Poland in the accounts of his trip to Germany and the Czech Republic. He calls Poland the land of Mieszko I

Konicz Tadeusz, or Kuntze, is a Polish painter born in Zielona Góra in 1733. When he was young, he worked as an assistant in the kitchen at the court of the bishop of Płock and the canon of Kraków, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski. His painting talent was noticed there and Tadeusz

Kołłątaj Hugo, born in 1750 in Derkały Wielkie in Volhynia, was a famous Polish education reformer, writer, canon of Krakow and doctor of philosophy of the Krakow Academy (Polish: Akademia Krakowska, which is now called the Jagiellonian University). Achievements of Hugo Kołłątaj in Krakow Kołłątaj came to Krakow in 1777