Buying an apartment in Krakow

The following is a list of the basic conditions that must be met by a residential apartment was actually so called. Let's not confuse developers would then have not paid a lot more for only live called "apartment".
1. Location - it must be prestigious, with close access to cinemas, theaters, restaurants, museums, galleries and entertainment centers. The apartment must be provided and available good communication and close proximity of green areas - is a priceless view of the park (perfect example is the view of Central Park in New York).2. The aesthetics of the building - the building where the apartment should be designed by the leading architects and renowned architect. This ensures the high aesthetics of the building, and the interiors of the apartments should have provided several variants of finishing materials with high and highest shelves money.3. The standard of finish - the highest quality materials used in the construction and finishing of common parts, such as high-quality wood, natural stone, glass, metal.4. The spaciousness (height and size) - there is no consensus on the surface, some maintain that 100 square meters is the minimum it should have the apartment, others that 70 square meters, and still others that apartment for singles may even have only 50 square meters - however, this seems to be abusive to determine the flats as apartment. Apartment must be clearly separated part of the day and night, a separate dressing room and several bathrooms and large balconies, terraces and / or winter garden. The height of the interior of the apartment is a minimum of 3 meters.5. Distribution - on one floor can be a very limited number of units, and the same luxury apartments should be designed so that they are easy to arrange and ergonomic.6. Equipment of the building, including common parts - the apartment building, regardless of its height should be a luxury elevator, organizing social events, terraces on the roof.7. Protection of the building and monitoring - ensuring the safety of all citizens, no one unannounced by the protection has no right to enter the residence apartment.8. Services in the apartment building or campus - fitness club with swimming pool and Hour concierge care, sometimes room to ensure appropriate conditions for storage of collectible bottles of wine.9. Installation of intelligent building - providing, among other things flawlessly operating and energy-efficient air conditioning and noise protection - apartment buildings are usually located in high-profile city centers or their close vicinity.

The most beautiful streets of the hotel

Florian Street has always been one of the most important streets in Krakow. Marked in the days of the Great Locations of the city in the second half of the thirteenth century, it was an important piece of the representative route, the Royal Route, leading from the church. Florian (hence the name of the street) at Wawel. As one of the first in the street has gained solid pavements. At the end of the fifteenth century most of the houses in St. Florian was already a brick.Although most of the houses has been rebuilt (especially at the turn of the century), it retains many elements providing for their old, often medieval origins. Especially noteworthy are the houses here: No. 3 with an interesting Renaissance portal, No. 5 and No. 8 with portals late Gothic, 7 of the early-Renaissance statue of the Virgin Mary and portals in the same style, No. 9 and No. 26 with Renaissance portals, as well as No. 17 with a fragment of the chain on the facade, which once closed the street at night.The house No. 14 is the oldest in the city, founded approx. 1800 hotel "Under the Rose", originally called "de Russie", which the Russians to commemorate the visit of the Grand Duke Constantine and Tsar Alexander I. At the time of your stay in Krakow settled here as Francis Liszt. Unreal while the information is on the plaque, proclaiming allegedly lived here Honoré de Balzac. The great French writer really stopped in one of the cheaper hotels in Stradom. Building housing the hotel dates back to the fourteenth century., But was subjected to numerous reconstructions. The facade is decorated with rare beauty late Renaissance portal with a beautiful Latin inscription, which wants the house to make it until the ant drinks sea water, and the turtle will celebrate not the whole world.The narrow tenement (No. 41), the former home of Jan Matejko (1837-1893), where the artist was born and died. Today it is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the greatest Polish historical painter. Can be viewed here personal mementos, documents, photographs, gold items from the collection of the artist, as well as numerous paintings, drawings, and a collection of militaria. A special exhibit is a collection of tools executioners, extracted from the dungeons of City Hall. The facade of the building by Thomas Prylińskiego is the earliest manifestation quite rare in Krakow neo-baroque architecture (1873.).The house No. 25 is the largest in Poland and one of the few of its kind in the world Pharmacy Museum, run by the Jagiellonian University. Founded in 1946 by as a descendant of Krakow pharmacists, a lawyer and collector Stanislaw vacuum to collect today exhibits from 1,200 pharmacies across Polish. In the halls of the exhibition recreated among others historic interiors of pharmacies from the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth century., and pharmacies in the Empire style, Biedermeier, neo-classical and neo-baroque. One of the rooms allocated for reconstruction of the cabinet inventor of the kerosene lamp Ignacy Lukasiewicz, a collection of nineteenth-century lamps.House No. 45 is associated inextricably with John Michalik a confectioner who came from Lviv, which opened in 1895 in Krakow, Lviv patisserie. In the years 1905-1912 he gave here to present Poland's first cabaret literary and artistic "Green Balloon", founded by local artists and writers associated with the flow of Young Polish (including Tadeusz Boy-Żeleńskiego, Jan August Kisielewski and Theophilus Trzciński). Since the room had no windows, the artists called confectioner "Michalik's Cave," which is the name of the place has kept to this day. The walls of the cafe are still decorated with paintings by Charles Frycz design and drawings and caricatures of the Young Poland artists. The showcases are exhibited puppets of the certificates issued by the cabaret cribs. Florian Street outside with plenty of historical sites is also a great place to stay. Along the picturesque streets extends a lot of luxury apartments, holiday flat  and guest rooms. If you want to stay overnight at the street will be something for everyone.

Krakow restored house

Apartment in a prewar building, often separated from the very large size of the property, needs a new arrangement that will enhance its functionality.

New apartment require serious intervention team of professionals. They are waiting for their compensation levels of floors, replacement windows, as well as the improvement of the premises. - The apartment has an unusual arrangement. Over the years, each Pietra held only one apartment with a separate part of the service. After the war, the apartments are divided into four, five apartments.
The new arrangement of old apartment
Useless corridor transformed in the kitchen. In place of the old kitchen arranged space for the child, and in the long small room - bathroom. They opened the bedroom to the living room, by inserting a wide sliding door. On the part of the bedroom separated.Brick in the kitchen, they refreshed decorated radiators. They created a friendly arrangement in retro style. Flat they equip the old furniture - furniture with service points, online auctions or from friends. It should be noted that each renovation requires a good knowledge of the place in which wants to carry out repairs. Why? Probably, none of you would not like to be in the process of renovating the destroyed one of the walls, or climbed out any of the installation. Plus those are the renovation is the fact that the apartments really unpretty create beautiful suites for almost all family.