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Wanda Mound
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1.2 km
**Wanda Mound in Kraków** stands in Nowa Huta, by Ujastek Street. This modest mound, about 14 metres high, is one of the city’s oldest and probably dates from the early Middle Ages. Legend says it is the grave of Wanda, daughter of Prince…
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Nowa Huta
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1.7 km
Nowa Huta is a town built from scratch — Poland’s largest exercise in socialist-realist urban planning and one of the few such vast projects in Europe. Construction began in 1949 for the workers of a new metallurgical combine; the Lenin St…
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Jan Matejko House in Kraków
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1.9 km
## Jan Matejko House in Kraków Jan Matejko House at 41 Floriańska Street is the painter’s family home, where Jan Matejko (1838–1893) was born, lived with his family, worked and died. The 16th-century townhouse, remodelled in the 19th centu…
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Stanisław Lem Experience Garden in Kraków
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4.0 km
In the Polish Airmen Park at Aleja Pokoju 68 runs the Stanisław Lem Experience Garden — the first sensory educational park in Poland, modelled on the garden in Nuremberg. It is run by the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Kraków, and the…
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Kraków Water Park
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5.7 km
The Kraków Water Park at 126 Dobrego Pasterza Street in Mistrzejowice is one of the largest indoor aquaparks in Poland and Europe. Construction began in April 1999 and was completed in just 13 months; the opening took place on 10 June 2000…
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Rakowicki Cemetery
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7.0 km
Rakowicki Cemetery at 26 Rakowicka Street is Kraków’s oldest municipal cemetery and an important place in the city’s history. It was laid out in 1801–1802 on what was then the outskirts, after burials beside churches were banned. The first…
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Krakus Mound
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7.3 km
**Krakus Mound** in Kraków’s Podgórze district is the city’s oldest and one of its most mysterious mounds. It stands on Lasota Hill, is about 16 metres high and, according to legend, marks the grave of Prince Krak, the city’s founder. Its…
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Old Synagogue in Kraków
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7.6 km
At **24 Szeroka Street** stands the oldest preserved synagogue in Poland and one of the most valuable monuments of Jewish sacral architecture in Europe. This Gothic-Renaissance, two-aisled hall served as the main synagogue of Kraków's Jewi…