Place / Address:From the Market Squareto St. Florian's Gate
Florian Street has always been one of the most important streets in Krakow. Marked
in the days of the Great Locations of the city in the second half of
the thirteenth century, it was an important piece of the representative
route, the Royal Route, leading from the church. Florian (hence the name of the street) at Wawel. As one of the first in the street has gained solid pavements. At the end of the fifteenth century most of the houses in St. Florian was already a brick.Although
most of the houses has been rebuilt (especially at the turn of the
century), it retains many elements providing for their old, often
medieval origins. Especially
noteworthy are the houses here: No. 3 with an interesting Renaissance
portal, No. 5 and No. 8 with portals late Gothic, 7 of the
early-Renaissance statue of the Virgin Mary and portals in the same
style, No. 9 and No. 26 with Renaissance portals, as well as No. 17 with a fragment of the chain on the facade, which once closed the street at night.
The narrow tenement (No. 41), the former home of Jan Matejko (1837-1893), where the artist was born and died. Today it is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the greatest Polish historical painter. Can
be viewed here personal mementos, documents, photographs, gold items
from the collection of the artist, as well as numerous paintings,
drawings, and a collection of militaria. A special exhibit is a collection of tools executioners, extracted from the dungeons of City Hall. The facade of the building by Thomas Prylińskiego is the earliest
manifestation quite rare in Krakow neo-baroque architecture (1873.).The
house No. 25 is the largest in Poland and one of the few of its kind in
the world Pharmacy Museum, run by the Jagiellonian University. Founded
in 1946 by as a descendant of Krakow pharmacists, a lawyer and
collector Stanislaw vacuum to collect today exhibits from 1,200
pharmacies across Polish. In the halls of the exhibition recreated among others historic
interiors of pharmacies from the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth
century., and pharmacies in the Empire style, Biedermeier, neo-classical
and neo-baroque. One of the rooms allocated for reconstruction of the cabinet inventor
of the kerosene lamp Ignacy Lukasiewicz, a collection of
nineteenth-century lamps.House
No. 45 is associated inextricably with John Michalik a confectioner who
came from Lviv, which opened in 1895 in Krakow, Lviv patisserie. In
the years 1905-1912 he gave here to present Poland's first cabaret
literary and artistic "Green Balloon", founded by local artists and
writers associated with the flow of Young Polish (including Tadeusz
Boy-Żeleńskiego, Jan August Kisielewski and Theophilus Trzciński). Since
the room had no windows, the artists called confectioner "Michalik's
Cave," which is the name of the place has kept to this day. The
walls of the cafe are still decorated with paintings by Charles Frycz
design and drawings and caricatures of the Young Poland artists. The showcases are exhibited puppets of the certificates issued by the cabaret cribs. Florian Street outside with plenty of historical sites is also a great place to stay. Along the picturesque streets extends a lot of luxury apartments and guest rooms. If you want to stay overnight at the street will be something for everyone.
Friday, April 1, 2016
Grodzka Street
Place / Address:
From the Market Square
Wawel Castle
Grodzka Street is one of the oldest in Krakow. There was even before the foundation of the town in 1257. The organizers of the trade route north-south. Later was part of the so-called. salt route, leading to Wieliczka, Myślenice and continue until Hungary. Initially, the street ended at the fortification Okol - the former settlement between Wawel Castle and Krakow foundation charter - much older than the Krakow. This border was probably in the vicinity of today's street Senate.
Its initial section - at the Market Square - is characterized by a characteristically deformed projection, due to the location of the church of St. Wojciech standing still in the fourteenth century on a slight hill. The course and the width of the street has not changed since the Middle Ages. The exception is the section of the market - pl. Dominican, where the great fire (1850.), Withdrawn face reconstructed houses even frontage, thus extending the street a few meters.
When in the fourteenth century included eventually Krakow was the integration of urban and organize the two separated parts of so far today Grodzka Street, closed at the foot of the castle Grodzka Gate. Already in the fourteenth century building it was a brick street, and its shape - visible to this day - was established at the beginning of the end of the sixteenth century. It was then that her current name covered the entire street.
Grodzka Street is one of the most famous streets after the street. St. Florian. It is at these two streets you can meet a lot of apartments for rent. You can accomodation here beacuse there're lots of places for room rent.
From the Market Square
Wawel Castle
Grodzka Street is one of the oldest in Krakow. There was even before the foundation of the town in 1257. The organizers of the trade route north-south. Later was part of the so-called. salt route, leading to Wieliczka, Myślenice and continue until Hungary. Initially, the street ended at the fortification Okol - the former settlement between Wawel Castle and Krakow foundation charter - much older than the Krakow. This border was probably in the vicinity of today's street Senate.
Its initial section - at the Market Square - is characterized by a characteristically deformed projection, due to the location of the church of St. Wojciech standing still in the fourteenth century on a slight hill. The course and the width of the street has not changed since the Middle Ages. The exception is the section of the market - pl. Dominican, where the great fire (1850.), Withdrawn face reconstructed houses even frontage, thus extending the street a few meters.
When in the fourteenth century included eventually Krakow was the integration of urban and organize the two separated parts of so far today Grodzka Street, closed at the foot of the castle Grodzka Gate. Already in the fourteenth century building it was a brick street, and its shape - visible to this day - was established at the beginning of the end of the sixteenth century. It was then that her current name covered the entire street.
Grodzka Street is one of the most famous streets after the street. St. Florian. It is at these two streets you can meet a lot of apartments for rent. You can accomodation here beacuse there're lots of places for room rent.
Luxury apartments
When we hear the word "penthouse" appears to us it as an exclusive suite, a sumptuous space filled with luxury, inhabited by the wealthiest citizens. However, was not always so. There is always the penthouse was the determinant of prestige. By mid-century, it functioned as a residence for the poorest. Interiors apartments on the top floors of the building were inhabited by people of lower social classes. Among the wealthy dominated interior design located on the first and second floor, because it did not have to overcome a lot of steps to get to them. Penthouse took on a completely different meaning at a time when the United US popularized the elevator. Then the interior design with panoramic views of the city became interested in the richest and most famous.
"Penthouse" - as it is called luxury apartments, which are located on the top floors of investments. Usually, in the central districts of the city. The interiors of apartments are characterized by a higher standard and opulence in a positive sense. None of them splendor and richness. Reigns there rather fashionable and practical minimalism, which is the guarantee of interior space at the highest level. Looking at the interior design projects in the style of penthouses, it can be concluded that these are properties that combine practicality housing intimacy detached houses.
"Penthouse" - as it is called luxury apartments, which are located on the top floors of investments. Usually, in the central districts of the city. The interiors of apartments are characterized by a higher standard and opulence in a positive sense. None of them splendor and richness. Reigns there rather fashionable and practical minimalism, which is the guarantee of interior space at the highest level. Looking at the interior design projects in the style of penthouses, it can be concluded that these are properties that combine practicality housing intimacy detached houses.
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