The Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) is the world's oldest shopping mall, it has been in business for 700 years.
Circa 1300 a roof was put over two rows of stalls to form the first Sukiennice building – Cloth Hall – where the textile trade used to go on. It was extended into an imposing Gothic structure 108 meter long and eight meter wide in the second half of the 14th century. The present Renaissance edifice dates from 1555.