People

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

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,

Laszczka Konstanty was a sculptor and ceramist, born in 1865 in Makowiec Dlugi near Mińsk Mazowiecki. He studied in Warsaw, Paris and Krakow. For several years he lectured at the Adademy of Fine Arts in Krakow, later he became its rector. Laszczka is the author of many busts, monuments, plaques

Lanci Franz Maria was an architect of Italian origin born in 1799 in Fano, Italy. He came to Poland in 1825. Stanisław Małachowski invited him to his palace in Końskie so that Lanci could perform various works. In 1830, he moved to Kraków and ran the restoration of royal tombs

Liszt Franciszek was a Hungarian musician, composer and pianist. He created many musical masterpieces, wrote symphonic poems, oratorios, songs and piano pieces. He was also the author of treatises on music, he wrote the first book about Fryderyk Chopin. In 1843 he came to Krakow and stayed at the Hotel

Mrożek Sławomir was a playwright, prose writer, satirist and cartoonist. He was born in 1930 in Borzęcin. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Jagiellonian University and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He worked as a journalist in the newspapers “Dziennik Polski” and “Echo Krakowa“,

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

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.