Time machine in Piwnica pod Fortuną
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Piwnica pod Fortuną consists of ten thematic rooms (e.g. the Centre and the outskirts, Lublin street, Lublin bourgeois house from XVI/XVII century or the Undergound and darkness) of a total area of 206m2. The most valuable room is the one hosting a wine bar with unique XVI century wall paintings. The idea of the multimedia facility available to visitors and located in a XVI century tenement house, in the heart of the Old Town square, is a very innovative undertaking. The most valuable room, with unique frivolous and moralistic polychromy, will be open to public at the end of July 2012.
We encourage everyone to take a trip in time and learn about the history of Lublin in the centre of the Old Town. The underground will soon be open to visitors.
In XV-XVI century, the historic tenement house at Rynek 8, together with the one at ul. Grodzka 3, belonged to the Lubomelskis. They founded a wine bar in the cellar the walls and roof of which were decorated with valuable XVI century polychromies by an anynomous artist. The cellar is a kind of an „underground gem” of our city. Preserved in a very good condition and after a series of renovations, the venue itself has a great history. It hosted, among others, king Stanisław August Poniatowski during his visit to the Crown Tribunal session, and served as the seat of the Lublin Rabbinate until 1941.
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