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Reformed Franciscan Church
This inconspicuously looking church hides one of the most interesting Kraków's curiosities - the crypts, where the mummified corpses of the church benefactors and monks repose... »
Royal Arsenal
This strategically important edifice was erected at the foot of Wawel Castle in 1533 by King Sigismund the Old. Situated just next to the Grodzka Gate, the Arsenal was a part of the city's system of fortifications... »
Small Market Square
The Small Market Square was known under the name forum antiquum, from the trading in used goods that took place here, and alternatively Wendeta or Tandeta. It was an ancillary area to the Main Square... »
St Adalbert's Church
The fragments of the Romanesque walls of St Adalbert’s Church – preserved as exposed – provide the oldest piece of architecture in the Main Square. The diminutive church was probably already built at the start of the 11th century... »
St Andrew's Church
The best preserved example of Romanesque architecture in Kraków, this massive church was built from stone blocks towards the end of the 11th century, and also fulfilled important defence functions... »
St Anne's Church
One of Poland’s most magnificent baroque structures was erected thanks to a foundation of professors of Kraków Academy and King John III Sobieski, to a design developed by the architect Tylman van Gameren... »
St Barbara’s Church
The church was built around 1400, most probably as a cemetery chapel: St Barbara was venerated as the patron saint of a good death. It replaced the former mortuary... »
St Florian’s Gate
Its other name was Porta Gloriae, that is “the gate of glory”, as it opened the royal route (Via Regia). It was through this gate that kings would enter the city after victorious battles, it was also used for ceremonial reasons by diplomats... »
St Giles' Church
According to tradition, the church was founded by Prince Ladislaus Herman in the 11th century as thanksgiving for the birth of his son, Boleslaus. Archaeological research has not however confirmed that version... »
St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist's Church
Just the very position of the church – at an angle and out of the line of ul. Św. Jana– proves that it dates from before the City’s Charter. This is further attested by the remnants of the 12th-century Romanesque walls... »
St Mark's Church
The construction of the Church, funded by Prince Boleslaus the Chaste (Bolesław Wstydliwy) lasted a long time, even though it had already begun in the 1260s with the completion of the chancel... »
St Martin's Church
Early baroque with a modest façade in the form of Rome’s Il Gesù, the church was built in 1637-1640 for the Order of Discalced Carmelite Nuns. In 1816 the city authorities transferred it to the Lutheran congregation, and earmarked it as their parish church... »
St Mary Magdalene Square
As well as many other sqaures in the city, it used to be a market place of an independent settlement. And - as most of them - it inherited its name from a no longer existing church... »
St Mary's Church
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 church! In the very heart of Kraków!... »
St Michael and St Joseph's Church and Monastery (Archaeological Museum)
The so-called “Painted Manor House” (Malowany Dwór), an estate of the Tenczyński family, used to stand in the place where today’s Senacka and Poselska streets meet. The magnates bestowed the building on the Discalced Carmelites who arrived in Kraków early in the 17th century... »
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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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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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Various Faces of MOCAK
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.... »
