Sukiennice (Cloth Hall) (Kraków)

Poland / Malopolskie / Krakow / Kraków / Rynek Glowny, 3
 store / shop, Renaissance (architecture), Gothic (architecture), Brick Gothic (architecture), listed building / architectural heritage, art museum / art gallery
The world's arguably oldest shopping mall has been in business in the middle of Krakow's central Grand Square (Rynek Glowny) for 700 years. Circa 1300 a roof was put over two rows of stalls to form the first Sukiennice building – Cloth Hall – where the textile trade used to go on. It was extended into an imposing Gothic structure 108 meter long and eight meter wide in the second half of the 14th century.
Nowadays stalls on the ground floor and shops in the arcades mostly sell assorted souvenirs.
Upstairs, since the 1880s stands the Krakow National Museum.

In this building

  1. Gallery of the 19th Century Polish Art - Krakow National Museum
  2. National Muzeum in Cloth Hall
  3. Kawiarnia Noworolski
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  1. Kawiarnia "Noworolski"
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiennice
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Coordinates:   50°3'42"N   19°56'14"E