Pałac Wielopolskich
The Pałac Wielopolskich was built for Hetman Jan Tarnowski between 1535 and 1560, tying this site directly to Kraków’s era of prominent Polish statesmen. Tarnowski died in 1561, and ownership passed to the Ostrogski and Zamoyski families before the Wielopolski family held the building from the mid-17th century until the mid-19th century. That long private tenure didn’t stop public life: the palace hosted theatre productions, and it even made room for a painting studio gallery of Piotr Michałowski, a major Romantic-era Polish painter. In 1850 the palace was severely damaged in the fire of Kraków, and the Wielopolskis sold the burned-out property. After repairs by surgeon Wojciech Kowalski, the palace—by 1857—was leased to Ferdinand von Winter, who ran café Winter and remodeled interiors for masquerade balls and musical evenings. …
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