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 The Cloth Hall in an impressive building standing in the middle of the Main Market. It’ s a showcase of Cracow. In 1257 the Piast prince Boleslaw Wstydliwy, by a location act, gave a right to trade to the city. The Cloth Hall was a place of this trade. Citizens bought costumer goods from all of parts of Europe there, because Cracow was a city where trade routes crossed. Leszek Mazan and Mieczyslaw Czuma, the greatest experts on Cracow, wrote that the Cloth Hall is the supermarket with a gothic soul.
 Next kings of Poland gave to the Cloth Hall lot of different rights, what conferred this place a very important position.
In 1555 the Cloth Hall was completely burned and the order to renovation went to Jan Maria Padovano – the great renaissance builder and sculptor. Another great renaissance sculptor – Santi Gucci made sculptures of monsters on the top of the Cloth Hall. Their faces remind us the faces of Cracow citizens and presidents of the city. “ Hi, that’s me – Cracow monster. Look up on my face. Do you know the story? No? I’ll tell you! There are few of us, but we tell you a story about the Main Market”. If you come next to the Cloth Hall in the middle of the night maybe you can hear these stories.
 In 1608 the capital of Poland was moved to Warsaw. Lot of wars have been taking a place as well. Poland was on the decline, same as Cracow and the Cloth Hall.
In XIX century this place was renovated and the first museum was created there as well.
Nowadays the Cloth Hall is teeming with life 24 hours a day. On the ground floor there are still stalls, where you can buy souvenirs and craftsmanship products. There is also a famous restaurant NOWOROLSKI nearby. This restaurant had as a guest such a people as Jan Matejko, Stanislaw Wyspianski or Wlodzimierz Lenin.
On the first floor there is a part of National Museum : The Gallery of Polish Paintings of XIX century”. You can see the paintings of Jan Matejko, Henryk Siemiradzki, Jozef Chelmonski, Piotr Michalowski or others there.  
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