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On the corner of today’s Krasińskiego and Zwierzyniecka Streets, a suburban manor house was built in 1819 with a small, characteristic storey and a large mansard roof, where Jan III Sobieski stayed in it, so some argue that this date is true. Decorated with the “Eye of Providence” and the

It was located at 4 Juliusza Kossaka Square in Krakow. Once a suburban mansion, it was called Comfort. It was built by W. Kołodziej, and loe sold in 1864 to M. Zaleska, from whom J. Kossak bought it in 1869 for 15 thousand zlotys. The property consisted of 1.5 morga

It stands at Papiernicza 2 st in Krakow. There used to be a hospital for the Duchaks, as well as an industrial center: mills, paper mills, fulling mills using the power of the Prądnik River. In 1547, the bishop of Kraków, Samuel Maciejowski, built a beautiful palace here – the

It was located at 7 Łobzowska St. in Krakow. The writer and poet Adam Asnyk, after leaving Warsaw, came to Kraków in 1869 and from 1871 until his death in 1897 he lived in a suburban mansion on the river at Łobzowska St. The poet took an active part in

Painter, born in Nuremberg, died in Kraków. Brother of the famous painter Albrecht Dürer, who looked after Hans and educated him in his studio for Emperor Maximilian I. He probably stayed in Silesia in the years 1522-1524, where he painted for churches in Wrocław, Nysa and Marszowice. From 1527 he

Illuminator and painter, he came to Krakow from Silesia. He was closely related to Jan Długosz, the chapter and the royal court, he called himself “pictor et illuminator regius”. Towards the end of his life, he was ordained a minor priest. Author of images of 56 Teutonic banners captured at

sculptor born in Krakow. He studied at the School of Fine Arts. In the years 1904-1910 he was a professor of sculpture at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts, after which he returned to Krakow. In 1914 he went to London, and then to France. He served in the Bayonne

Politician, economist born in Stanisławów, died in Kraków. Until 1842 he studied economics at the universities of Lviv and Vienna. He worked as an assistant at the Department of Political Skills and Statistics at the Jagiellonian University, and in 1850 he obtained his doctorate in law at the Jagiellonian University,

The heroic peasant of Greater Poland, whose fight with the Prussian invader for the right to build a house on his own land made him famous throughout the country. He settled in Podgradowice near Rakoniewce, where in 1904 he bought a two-hectare plot with a pigsty and a barn. The

Doctor of chemistry, outstanding activist of the workers’ movement, born and died in Kraków. Grandfather and his parents took part in the uprisings. As a student, Bolesław joined the “Promień” socialist youth organization. In 1898 he joined the PPSD, then an activist of the PPS and PZPR. Spokesman for the