Symbolic of Gorlice's golden days before WWI, this building wasn't even fully open yet when the war broke out. In fact, school was in session here for just three weeks before it was commandeered by Austrian troops for a military hospital, thus putting a halt to its first academic year. The school/hospital was then passed back and forth between the Austrians and Russians before it was partially destroyed during the Battle of Gorlice in May 1915. Rebuilt soon after, the building has been a public high school since the PRL era, and was recently the subject of a thorough renovation. The school is named after Marcin Kromer, a 16th century Polish cartographer, historian, diplomat and personal secretery to two kings - Sigismund I and Sigismund II - who was born nearby in Biecz.
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