Florianska Street

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.