Pod Różą Hotel in Kraków, Renaissance hotel in Old Town, Poland.

Pod Różą Hotel occupies a four-story, L-shaped burgher house at the corner of Floriańska and św. Tomasza streets, with three wings and two front façades: six bays on Floriańska, fourteen on św. Tomasza. The third axis of the Floriańska façade holds a Renaissance portal with composite columns, full-relief figures holding a cross and a sword, and a Latin inscription. Glass galleries line the courtyard elevations, covered by a glass roof since 1998.

The building was erected around 1300 on an L-shaped plan and rebuilt in the Renaissance style in the mid-16th century. In 1807 the inn run by J. Szydłowski became the Hôtel de Russie, and in 1864 it took the name Hotel Pod Różą. Guests included Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov and Tsar Alexander I in 1805, and Franz Liszt in 1843.

The Latin inscription above the entrance expresses a Renaissance belief in permanence, wishing the building to stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles Earth. This saying reveals how people of that era thought about their homes and their place in the world.

The hotel stands at the corner of Floriańska 14 and św. Tomasza 16, two streets leading off the Main Market Square, so it is reached on foot from the centre. The building has four storeys and three wings, with front elevations on both streets; the Floriańska façade has six axes, the św. Tomasza façade fourteen.

The Latin inscription on the Floriańska Street portal reads "STET DOMUS HAEC, DONEC FLUCTUS FORMICA MARINOS EBIBET ET TOTUM TESTUDO PERAMBULET ORBEM": may this house stand until an ant drinks the sea and a tortoise walks the whole world. The portal is framed by composite columns and two full-relief figures, one holding a cross and the other a sword.