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Krosno - rynek i okolica (Market Square and background of Krosno)

Krosno is located in south-eastern Poland, in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, at the mouth of the Lubatówka stream to Wisłoka, in the area of ​​the Jasło-Krosno Basin, which is part of the Central Beskids Foothills. Krosno was referred to as "parva Cracovia" - means "small Krakow", because the Krosno Market Square with renaissance Cloth hall was associated with the Krakow Old Town, as well as due to the high level of intellectual life of the city. The relevance of comparing to Krakow is evidenced by placing the view of Krosno in the copperplate of Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (around 1535-1590), in the work Civitates orbis terrarum (Cities of the world published in 1617 in Cologne) in the company of m.in. . Krakow, Poznań, Warsaw or Zamość, and in the work of Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665) from 1659 Regni Poloniae Magnique Ducatus Lithuanian Novissima Descriptio, published in Amsterdam ... The Krosno Basin from the west borders with the Jasiołki Valley and small passes, with the Basin Jasielska, and in the east joins the Wisłoka valley and the Zarszyn Basin. Over the Krosno rises from the north of the so-called Odrzykieńskie range, with distinctive culminations of the Royal Mountain (554 m above sea level) and Sucha Góra (585 m above sea level). At the foot of the first, there is the "Kamieniec" Castle, and at the top of the second the relay tower of the television station. Apart from crude oil, sandstone and clays, Krosno's wealth includes mineral springs that occur in the Białobrzegi district, as sulfur and hydrogen, in Zawodzium, sulphates and brines of high concentration, and in other brine districts with different chemical compositions ... Krosno - in forks of Wisłok and Lubatówka, it was a regular, compact urban layout with a quadrangular Market Square and an outgoing network of streets emerging from it. From the Market Square they went symmetrically in the directions south and north, three streets that converged at the city gates ... Krosno is full of medieval churches and historic tenements, located mainly within the Market Square, which is located on an elevation of about 277 m above sea level. The city belongs to the Jasło-Krosno Land, also famous for glassworks and aviation ...