chapter · squares
The market-street halls.
six entries · Warszawa · Kraków · Wrocław
A city in Poland is measured by its square, and the hotels were built to it. This chapter keeps the square-side halls — the palaces of the market streets of Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław, corner to corner.
Warszawa · Krakowskie Przedmieście
Hotel Bristol, Warszawa
The modernist palace of 1933 on the ceremonial end of the Royal Way — marble atrium, protocol ballroom, cathedral on foot.
Warszawa · Krucza street
Palace Hotel Europejski, Warszawa
Open since 1903 — among the oldest continuously kept palace hotels of Warsaw, its ballrooms facing the walls of the town.
Kraków · Sławkowska street
Grand Hotel, Kraków
A nineteenth-century palace three hundred metres from the square, signed from its roof line, turned to its own courtyard.
Kraków · Main Market Square
The Bonerowski Palace, Kraków
The medieval corner tenement of the square — the Zacherlowska palace with painted ceilings — kept as a boutique palace hotel on the market itself.
Kraków · Westerplatte street
Hotel Wyspiański, Kraków
The former tourist house of 1969 between market and river — calm rooms of a quiet Kraków.
Wrocław · the ring
Hotel Orbis, Wrocław
The modernist tower on the ring — the whole city of Wrocław spread out below its floors, the view-hotel of Lower Silesia.