The historical part of Holiday Inn Krakow City Centre is the Parenskich Palace, now beautifully renovated and surrounded by a modern glass & concrete construction which perfectly blends with the old 19th and 20th century Cracow. The palace used to belong to professor doctor Stanis³aw Parenski 1843-1913 who was a nobleman in the Cracovites society and a participant of the Styczniowe uprising. Dr Parenski gained his popularity for being an excellent specialist in internal medicine and a person actively involved in social work. Art exhibitions used to be organized in the Parenskich Palace and everybody who meant anything during the "M³oda Polska" art period would come here. One of those people, a highly talented painter Teodor Axentowicz made the famous canvas called "Parenskie Maids". Another patron of that art exhibition Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski took one of the maids as a wife