The Cloth Hall (Polish: Sukiennice) in Krakow dates to the Renaissance and is one of the city's most recognizable icons.

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The Cloth Hall (Polish: Sukiennice) in Kraków, Lesser Poland, dates to the Renaissance and is one of the city's most recognizable icons. It is the central feature of the main market square in the Kraków Old Town (listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978). It was once a major centre of international trade. Traveling merchants met there to discuss business and to barter. During its golden age in the 15th century, the hall was the source of a variety of exotic imports from the east – spices, silk, leather and wax – while Kraków itself exported textiles, lead, and salt from the Wieliczka Salt Mine. Other, similar cloth halls have existed in other Polish as well as other European cities such as in Ypres, Belgium; Braunschweig, and in Leeds, England.

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Size: 6704px × 4469px
Location: Krakow, Poland, Lesser Poland.
Photo credit: © Jochen Rehm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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