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All Saints’ Square
The Square today occupies the space between the Franciscan Church, and Grodzka Street. Before the city obtained its charter in 1257, it was a part of a trading settlement together with the adjacent Dominikański Square... »
Carpenters’ Tower
The oldest of the three preserved towers, it was built of limestone around the year 1300 on a square base, with a hexagonal upper part added in the 15th century... »
City Walls
In the Middle Ages the area we today call the Old Town used to be encircled by walls with 7 gates leading to the city. The city’s defence line was complemented by towers, whose number increased, and with the passage of time reached 47... »
Cloth Hall
The highlight and flagship of the city, this pearl of Renaissance architecture is Kraków’s oldest “shopping gallery”. The Cloth Hall is one of the oldest historic sites in Kraków... »
Collegium Iuridicum
In the first years of the 15th century two Gothic townhouses were connected into a spacious four-sided building enclosing a quadrangle funded by a foundation set up by King Ladislaus (Władysław) Jagiełło... »
Collegium Maius and Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University, established by King Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) in 1364 as the Kraków Academy, is Poland’s oldest university, and one of the most ancient houses of learning in this part of Europe... »
Collegium Novum
The most magnificent building of the Jagiellonian University, the Collegium Novum was built in 1883-1887 to the design of Feliks Księżarski. It replaced two demolished university boarding houses: the Philosophers' and Jerusalem Halls... »
Defence Towers
Thus the 39 Kraków towers were defended by shoemakers, carpenters, joiners, painters, etc. In the Middle Ages, the number of crafts also included representatives of many trades that have since been forgotten: haberdashers, cordwainers, and needle makers... »
Dominican Church
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 (Hyacinth) and Czesław Odrowąż, who he sent with such a mission to the founder of the Order, Dominic de Guzmán... »
Długosz House
It is here that he wrote his numerous works including the most famous Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae (known in English as The Annals of Jan Długosz), also here he most probably taught the sons of the King Casimir the Jagiellonian (Kazimierz Jagiellończyk)... »
Floriańska Street
Floriańska has always been one of Kraków’s most important streets. It was one of the city’s first streets to receive proper cobbles, and towards the end of the 15th century, hardly any of the houses lining Floriańska were wooden... »
Franciscan Church
Austere Gothic architecture on the outside, soft arches and an extravaganza of colours of Art Nouveau polychrome murals by Stanisław Wyspiański, who was also the designer of eight of the most unique stained-glass windows... »
Grodzka Street
Grodzka is one of the city’s oldest streets. It existed even before the city received its charter in 1257 as an important section of the early mediaeval trading route leading from north to south... »
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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.... »
