Rakowice, Kraków

Rakowice is often confused with the Rakowicki Cemetery and Rakowicka street – the old 2-kilometre-long (1.2 mi) road leading to former village.

Until the end of the First Republic the village belonged to the Royal Crown.

At present, the monastery building serves as the local High School.

In the years 1912–1918 the crumbling Austria-Hungary built an airport in Rakowice, one of the most modern and largest in Poland at the time.

In the interwar period the area first developed into a residential neighborhood, and after World War II there has been further urbanization there.