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Kramy Bogate
Pozostałości Kramów Bogatych (XIII w.) w podziemiach Rynku w Krakowie.
The underground of the Main Square in Krakow (Rynek) is home to many treasures. Beneath the area before Sukiennice lies a complex of so-called Rich Stalls (Kramy Bogate) from the 2nd half of the 13th century. The stalls were a prototype for today's commercial stands, where the trade of luxury goods would have taken place, including for example, the buying and selling of splendid textiles that merchants had brought from all the corners of the world, as well as valuable metals and the jewellery made from them. The Rich Stalls were a kind of ancestor to the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice).
The underground trail leads through preserved fragments of the Rich Stalls; this picture shows the east row - basements of two stalls.
A prosperous Medieval Kraków was situated on the crossing of European trade routes. Eastern merchants traded spices, silk, leather and wax for Krakow's specialties: textiles, lead, and salt from the Wieliczka Mine.
Two main inland trade routes passed through the city; one of them ran from Košice to Toruń (Thorn) and beyond along the lower Vistula to the Baltic Sea. From Gdańsk (Danzig) there was contact with other Hanseatic cities (Kraków belonged to Hansa since 14th century).
The second route linked Bavaria with Ruthenia through Wrocław (Breslau) to Krakow thence eastwards to Lwów (Lviv) and the Crimea. Thus even is these early days Krakow was assuming the role of a commercial intermediary between east and west; these two trade routes were to play a vital role in the development of the city.
Kramy Bogate
Pozostałości Kramów Bogatych (XIII w.) w podziemiach Rynku w Krakowie.
The underground of the Main Square in Krakow (Rynek) is home to many treasures. Beneath the area before Sukiennice lies a complex of so-called Rich Stalls (Kramy Bogate) from the 2nd half of the 13th century. The stalls were a prototype for today's commercial stands, where the trade of luxury goods would have taken place, including for example, the buying and selling of splendid textiles that merchants had brought from all the corners of the world, as well as valuable metals and the jewellery made from them. The Rich Stalls were a kind of ancestor to the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice).
The underground trail leads through preserved fragments of the Rich Stalls; this picture shows the east row - basements of two stalls.
A prosperous Medieval Kraków was situated on the crossing of European trade routes. Eastern merchants traded spices, silk, leather and wax for Krakow's specialties: textiles, lead, and salt from the Wieliczka Mine.
Two main inland trade routes passed through the city; one of them ran from Košice to Toruń (Thorn) and beyond along the lower Vistula to the Baltic Sea. From Gdańsk (Danzig) there was contact with other Hanseatic cities (Kraków belonged to Hansa since 14th century).
The second route linked Bavaria with Ruthenia through Wrocław (Breslau) to Krakow thence eastwards to Lwów (Lviv) and the Crimea. Thus even is these early days Krakow was assuming the role of a commercial intermediary between east and west; these two trade routes were to play a vital role in the development of the city.