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I feel green...

The oldest of the trees that grow in the city is the approximately 200-year old Jagiellonian Oak, which is most probably the same age as the garden it is located in. This is the oldest existing...

On the aficionados of Gutenberg’s invention

Modern print – the breakthrough invention of Johannes Gutenberg from mid-15th century not only reached Kraków quickly but made the city its permanent residence; it was here that the...

On the high altar by Veit Stoss, or how to transform a disaster into a huge success

In 1442, disaster struck the most important of church in Kraków: the parish St Mary’s Church. The collapse of its ceiling destroyed the high altar. Nevertheless, it was thanks to that...

The most enduring work of King Casimir

King Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki, 1310-1370) gained his sobriquet as a result of his wise reign, during which his country prospered politically and economically. The monarch as farsighted...

Family quarrels, to which we owe the postal service

They say that the only business worth doing with the family is no business at all. If the saying were known in the 16th century, King Sigismund Augustus would definitely have agreed with its tenor....

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