Podgorze Duchackie-Kurdwanow

Podgórze Duchackie-Kurdwanów is one of the highest and most densely developed residential districts. It includes Piaski Wielkie, an area that became famous in the second half of the 19th c. for its slaughterhouses and meat processing establishments.

The meat trade thrived here, and the local guerrilla butchers sold their produce tied to long sticks to avoid the guild rules in Kraków, earning themselves the nickname of “stick men” (Kijaki Piaszczańskie). They started their own guild, and in the 1930s they built its headquarters, a building preserved to today.