Town Hall Tower
Where the Main Market Square opens its broad space, the Kraków Town Hall once dominated through its Gothic tower. That tower was built at the end of the 14th century and rose about 70 metres high, leaning roughly 55 centimetres after a storm in 1703—an angle that turned engineering trouble into local legend. Long before that, a lightning strike in 1680 consumed the tower’s original Gothic helmet; the following reconstruction ran from 1683 to 1686 under the royal architect Piotr Beber, who oversaw a Baroque helmet that lasted until it began to crumble in 1783. Beneath the tower, the old town hall’s cellars held a city prison, including a medieval torture chamber. In the 19th century, stone lions guarding the entrance were carved, and during restorations in 1961–1965 the bay windows were incorrectly reconstructed by TV personality and architect Wiktor Zin. …
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