''Galeria Krakowska'' is a shopping mall in

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, located adjacent to the city's main railway station.

Development

Galeria Krakowska has 270 specialty shops, cafés, and restaurants on three floors in two roof-covered shopping malls and three plazas. Galeria Krakowska has over of retail floor space, of offices, as well as parking for 1,400 cars (free for the first hour). It is part of an urban renewal project named ‘Nowe Miasto’ () where instead of building shopping centres in

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, the German project developer, ECE developed Galeria Krakowska in the busy inner city. Galeria Krakowska set new standards in architecture of shopping centers in Poland, and the development received the 2008 ICSC European Shopping Center Award in the category of "New Developments: Large".ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG website
, retrieved on 2009-12-30.

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External links

Galeria Krakowska official webpage
Shopping malls in Poland Buildings and structures in Kraków Tourist attractions in Kraków Shopping malls established in 2006 {{Mall-stub

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