Pałac Pod Krzysztofory
Krzysztofory Palace—more formally Pałac Krzysztofory, or Pałac Pod Krzysztofory—is a baroque city palace that now anchors Kraków’s main-market story. It stands at 35 Main Market Square, and since 1965 it has been the headquarters of Muzeum Krakowa, replacing earlier arrangements for the museum’s city-history collection. The palace takes shape from something older: it was built in the 1640s, when Adam Kazanowski, the Crown Court Marshal, owned the property from 1640 to 1649 and commissioned its construction. Rather than starting from scratch, the project joined together three narrow Gothic houses, a practical solution that left its mark on the building’s urban form. The first major renovation followed in 1682–1684, led by the architect Jakub Solari, while the stucco work is credited to Baldassare Fontana, an Italian craftsman active in Kraków. …
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