Poselska and Senacka streets
Poselska Street, formerly known as Legacka, it is L-shaped. It stretches from ul. Straszewski, cutting through Planty, turns on Grodzka street near the church of St.. Joseph and the Bernardine Convent and runs behind the Dominican Church. This is how, in the fourteenth century. there were city walls separating Kraków from Okół. Poselska Street, despite the most "downtown" location and unquestionable charm, it is calm and empty. Close to the Plant (nr 3) there is a huge complex of buildings from the 17th century. First, in the 13th century. Konrad Mazowiecki built a defensive wooden castle, on the site of which, after many expansions in the 15th century. stood the so-called. The painted mansion of castellan Jan Tęczyński. Then there were the city baths, Benedictine mansions, and later the Carmelites. W XIX w. The Austrians organized a court and the prison of St.. Michael, in which they held, inter alia,: writer Władysław Anczyc, historian Karol Szajnocha, comedy writer Michał Bałucki, socialist Ludwik Waryński and politician Ignacy Daszyński. After the last war, the building was handed over to the Archaeological Museum.
In front of the entrance to the Archaeological Museum there is a charming garden planted with rose bushes, from where there is a wonderful view of the Wawel Castle. The rich collection has been organized into four sections: 1. Mediterranean Archeology, 2. Antiquity and the Middle Ages of Małopolska, 3. Archeology of Nowa Huta, 4. The history of the prison of St.. Michael. The harvest is really fascinating. The exhibition on the first floor devoted to ancient Egypt is very impressive, where you will see sarcophagi and mummies, amazing at that “sprouting mummies”. You will also learn quite a lot about the Celts. You can also see the statue of Światowid from the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries AD. found in Zbruch in Podolia.
Senacka Street, very old, to the 18th century. she remained nameless. Only in 1881 r. it was officially named after the building on the corner of Grodzka and Senacka streets, the former Jesuit college, in which in the first half of the 19th century. miał siedzibę Senat Wolnego Miasta Krakowa.
It's worth wandering around the Archaeological Museum, to discover the beautiful meanders of both streets and take a look at the buildings. At no. 7 for example, there is a tenement house of the Hebedowski family, built in the 14th century. Opposite (nr 12) the southern part of the Wielopolski Palace is proud with a plaque embedded in the wall commemorating five years of living in Krakow (more or less in this place, but the house is no more) Józef Conrad Korzeniowski – an outstanding English writer of Polish origin. In the house no 9 lives! papal nuncio (envoy) and that determined the name of the street. Poselska on the section from ul. Grodzka to ul. Dominikańska does not lose any of its poetry. A couple of original restaurants have been opened here recently, m.in. Mexican and Corsican. For a long time, however, because for over three hundred years, here stands the church of St.. Joseph with a baroque interior, belonging to the congregation of Bernardines, in which you can hear the monotonous singing of nuns hidden from the eyes of the faithful.