St. Mary's Square

St. Mary's Square in Kraków is located next to the main square and St. Mary's Church. It neighbors with several monumental tenement houses including Hipolit House and the Gothic tenement house of Penitentiaries. There is also medieval St. Barbara's Church. The square is decorated with the Dove Well with a copy of one of the prophets from St. Mary's Church.

St. Mary' Square was established in 1802. Previously, this area was occupied by a cemetery. It is paved with bright, stone slabs. There are nine tenement houses from different times and St. Barbara's Church.

The oldest house is a Gothic tenement house, owned by Penitentiaries, which was rebuilt in the 19th century. A very valuable monument is Hipolit House with interesting stone portals and stucco decorations by Baltazar Fontana inside. Prałatówka, decorated with sgraffito, was built at the beginning of the 17th century. Wikarówka, on the other hand, was thoroughly rebuilt in the interwar period in a way it lost its original features. Other tenement houses were built in the 19th and 20th centuries and represent largely eclecticism and art nouveau.