The classicist Sierakowski Manor, next to the Spanish Manor, is one of the oldest monuments of Sopot construction. The first floor has preserved historic details: tiledstoves from the late 18th century, several ornate double doors, numerous metal fittings, stucco facades, a rosette and paintings on the ceiling. Since 1974, the Sierakowski mansion - as the headquarters of the Society of Friends of Sopot - has served as one of the city's most active centers of cultural life. The walls of the manor's rooms are used as a gallery of contemporary art, where about 15 vernissages are held each year. Jozef Czapski, Andrzej Dudzinski and Marek Raczkowski, among others, have presented their works here. Every Thursday at 6 pm, chamber music concerts are held in the mansion. They feature many well-known professors and graduates of music academies from Gdansk, Krakow, Lodz, Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, as well as excellent musicians from abroad. Admission is free. Literary meetings are also organized. Guests include French writer and cartoonist Roland Topor, as well as many distinguished Polish poets and writers: Wojciech Wencel, Olga Tokarczuk, Jerzy Pilch and Andrzej Stasiuk. The intimate interiors on the first floor of the Sierakowski Manor house the "U Hrabiego" café. Here we serve homemade cakes, aromatic teas, coffees, desserts, cocktails and beer. It is inexpensive, cozy and cigarette-free (one of the really few such places in the Tri-City). Open daily from 10am to 10pm, and even longer on Fridays and Saturdays.
Daro - 28.07.2008
