Krowodrza

Krowodrza stretches from Jordana Park to Piastowska, Mickiewicza and Słowackiego streets, covering former villages, hamlets, pastures, and arable land. Krowodrza, one of the original villages, gave the district its name, while the others are commemorated in the street names.

Part of Kraków since 1910, it contains the main buildings of the National Museum, the Jagiellonian Library, and the AGH University of Science and Technology that were built here between the two world wars. Nonetheless, well after the Second World War, it was still renowned for horticulture, mostly flowers and vegetables, while cows grazed on the Błonia Green.