Most frequently visited

1

Historical Museum of the City of Kraków

The wartime history of the factory, its owner Oskar Schindler, and the Jewish prisoners of the Płaszów camp became known primarily thanks to Steven Spielberg...  »

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Old Town

Over 600 hundred of history, high altar by Veit Stoss, the bugle call and the star-strewn paintings decorating the vaulting. All this and more in a single ch...  »

3

Wawel

Although there are few who can guess which church bears the official name of the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr and St Wenceslas,...  »

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Off the main routes

Today, the shrine attracts thousands of visitors (approximately 50 thousand in 2008) who come to pray before the painting of Jesus and the relics of the sain...  »

5

Venues

At our Aquarium you can find more than just fish, we also have reptiles, amphibians and a pair of extremely rare monkeys. The museum is located in the centre...  »

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Historical Museum of the City of Kraków

The underground trail In the Footsteps of Kraków’s European Identity, opened in September 2010 under the Main Market Square, aims to introduce the spectator...  »

7

Old Town

The pearl within the Kraków system of fortifications, the Gothic Barbican, called with all familiarity the “Rondel” (“Saucepan”), was built to answer the Tur...  »

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Old Town

The huge, main square of the city was laid out in accordance with the City Charter, which awarded it rights under the Law of Magdeburg in 1257. It was situat...  »

9

Kazimierz

The church is a foundation of King Casimir the Great. It is an excellent example of the Gothic sacred architecture that we owe to a bishop’s anathema... Even...  »

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Museums around Kraków

Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oświęcim, a Polish city t...  »

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Ghetto and Camp in Płaszów

By the ordinance of 3rd March 1941 from the Governor of the Kraków District, Otto Wächter, Jews were forced to move to the district's first "residential area...  »

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Old Town

According to tradition, the church was founded by Prince Ladislaus Herman in the 11th century as thanksgiving for the birth of his son, Boleslaus. Archaeolog...  »

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Old Town

To quote the inscription on the façade of the theatre building, this is Kraków’s contribution to the development and preservation of national art. The place...  »

14

Kazimierz

Kraków's first Bernadine monks were recruited from among the audience who came to hear St John Capistrano, an austere preacher who gave fiery sermons against...  »

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Old Town

The Jagiellonian University, established by King Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) in 1364 as the Kraków Academy, is Poland’s oldest university, and one o...  »

Highest rated

1

Wawel

Although there are few who can guess which church bears the official name of the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr and St Wenceslas,...  »

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Events

3rd Conrad Festival, which will be held from 2-6 November in Kraków. The 5-day festival will run under the slogan “In search of lost worlds”...  »

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Events

This year’s final Opera Rara promises to be exceptional: a work by Antonio Vivaldi, unheard for 250 years, returns to the stage!...  »

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Events

Even in the United States, Jews were often rejected from jobs in favour of white Protestants. As a result, they were pushed to find jobs in a variety of diff...  »

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Music clubs

Each Tuesday and each Thursday experimental music for free...  »

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Kazimierz

The church is a foundation of King Casimir the Great. It is an excellent example of the Gothic sacred architecture that we owe to a bishop’s anathema... Even...  »

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Events

Does the adjective “new” have any right to appear at an event devoted to early music? The organisers of the 8th Misteria Paschalia Festival (18-25 April...  »

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Events

The tragic story of Cio-Cio San, the Japanese woman unhappily in love with an American, has for years remained at number one on the list of the most gladly...  »

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Old Town

Over 600 hundred of history, high altar by Veit Stoss, the bugle call and the star-strewn paintings decorating the vaulting. All this and more in a single ch...  »

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Kazimierz

The church was founded as a parish church for the new town of Kazimierz, established by King Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) in 1335. King Ladislaus Jag...  »

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Events

For the third time Kraków’s streets and squares will be taken over by artists – ArtBoom festival is an explosion of modern art in public space; art which pro...  »

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Old Town

The first Dominicans arrived in Kraków in 1222, brought here by the Bishop Iwo Odrowąż. The Dominican ideas were brought to Poland by his two nephews, Jacek...  »

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Old Town

The huge, main square of the city was laid out in accordance with the City Charter, which awarded it rights under the Law of Magdeburg in 1257. It was situat...  »

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Podgórze

In 1784, the Archduke Joseph II of Austria granted municipal rights to a settlement on the right bank of the Vistula that had existed since the Middle Ages....  »

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Museums around Kraków

The Salt Mine in Wieliczka is the only mining site in the world functioning continuously since the Middle Ages. Lying on 9 levels, its original stretch for t...  »

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Since it opened in May last year, the expansive floor space of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK) are regularly filled with temporary exhibitions. Four will be opened on 16 February.... »

 
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