Sixteen-century townhouses absorbed into a neo-baroque palace, reconstructed by Viennese architect Maximilian Nitsch in 1873–74 and sitting just steps from Kraków's main market square: this is the layered inheritance that H15 Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, chose to work with when it opened in 2024 as the brand's first property in the city. The facade at 15 Świętego Jana Street presents Nitsch's design largely as he left it — cream stone, arched ground-floor openings with wrought-iron grilles, pedimented windows climbing three full stories to a mansard roof with dormers — a composition that carries the civic confidence of the late Habsburg period without revision. Inside, the approach shifts across three distinct modes. The suites preserve what centuries have deposited: polychrome ceilings, frescoed walls in dusty rose and gilt, an 18th-century carved bed frame, Baroque chandelier, and damask armchairs that together create something closer to a furnished palace apartment than a hotel room. Standard rooms take a quieter path, their original cornice moldings and herringbone parquet kept intact but paired with custom headboards in pale blue abstract painterly panels and stacked-ceramic table lamps. The basement bar exploits the building's oldest fabric most dramatically, its groin-vaulted brick ceilings left raw and golden-toned, Thonet cane chairs and sage velvet banquettes pulled up against a brass-paneled counter, the whole room watched over by a monochrome architectural mural. Abstract installations by artist Ivo Nikić run through the public spaces, holding the historical and contemporary in productive proximity.