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Kraków
On Kraków’s Main Square, at the junction of St Anne and Wiślna streets, lies a monumental bronze head with empty eye sockets and leather straps. This is **Eros Bendato** by Igor Mitoraj, a sculpture that has become one of the most recognis…
Kraków
At **Mariacki Square 3**, between the Main Market Square and St Mary's Basilica, stands the **Hipolit House** — a burgher townhouse from the **16th century**, rebuilt in the first half of the **17th century** and once owned by the Hipolit…
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**Kraków’s mounds** form a distinctive open-air route through the city’s history. Five different sites — Krakus, Wanda, Kościuszko, Piłsudski and John Paul II Mounds — combine legends, historical memory and views over Kraków. ## Five diffe…
Kraków
By the Matecznego roundabout in Kraków, in a park laid out on the site of the former spa, operates the **Krakowska Pijalnia Zdrojowa** — a mineral water pump room opened in **2021**, which after almost twenty years restored the locals' acc…
Kraków
By the Planty gardens, a few hundred metres from Wawel Castle (Podzamcze street), stands a bench with the figures of two eminent mathematicians — **Stefan Banach** and **Otton Nikodym**. It commemorates a chance meeting of **1916** from wh…
Kraków
Lesser Poland has **14 sites** on the UNESCO World Heritage List and almost all of them can be combined into a single driving loop of about **320 kilometres** starting in Kraków. The UNESCO List was created in **1978**, and its very first…
Kraków
The Archdiocesan Museum of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła in Kraków occupies two townhouses at **19–21 Kanonicza street**, at the foot of Wawel: the House of St Stanisław and the Dean's House. It presents sacred art from the **13th to the 19th cen…
Kraków
A few steps from Wawel, at **17 Kanonicza Street**, stands the **Palace of Bishop Erazm Ciołek** — a residence built at the beginning of the 16th century, combining a Gothic structure with Renaissance styling. Since **2007** it has housed…
Kraków
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…
Kraków
The “Alice in Wonderland” Garden of Lights in Kraków is a seasonal open-air illumination exhibition at the Stanisław Lem Experience Garden, Aleja Pokoju 68. The trail runs through a six-hectare park and combines large light figures with pr…
Kraków
The Benedictine abbey in Tyniec is one of the oldest monasteries in Poland — tradition links its foundation with the year **1044** and Duke Casimir the Restorer. The abbey stands on a rocky bank of the Vistula in the southern part of Krakó…
Kraków
In the crypts of the church of Sts Peter and Paul on Grodzka Street, between the Main Square and Wawel, operates the **National Pantheon** — the resting place of the most eminent creators of Polish art, culture and science, and a continuat…
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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…
Kraków
At Floriańska 32, one of the busiest streets of Kraków, operates the Polonia Wax Museum — opened in 2016, inspired by the organisation of World Youth Day in Kraków. The museum, previously located by the Market Square, brings together wax f…
Kraków
Main Market Square in Kraków is the heart of the Old Town and one of Europe’s largest medieval urban squares. It was laid out in 1257 on a roughly square plan, with sides exceeding 200 metres, where historic trade routes met. The square is…
Kraków
A driving trail of about **533 km** links **38 manors and palaces** in **35 towns and villages** of Lesser Poland — from Olkusz in the north to Paszkówka near Wadowice. Its creators want to preserve the memory of a type of residence that o…
Kraków
The UNESCO World Heritage List includes over a thousand sites from around the world, **18** of which are in Poland — 16 cultural monuments and 2 natural areas. In addition, there are 2 UNESCO Global Geoparks: the Muskau Arch and Świętokrzy…
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Wawel Lost is a permanent exhibition and an archaeological-architectural reserve housed in a former German building from the 1940s, erected on the site of the old royal kitchens. Visitors walk among the exposed foundations of the oldest st…
Kraków
Hejnalica, the taller of the two towers of St. Mary’s Basilica, rises more than **80 metres** above the Main Market Square and ranks among the most recognisable symbols of Kraków. It is crowned by a late-Gothic spire with a gilded crown. I…
Kraków
An afternoon trip around the world: it is possible in Kraków, at 39 Tyniecka Street. Villages of the World is a Global Education Park where buildings characteristic of all continents stand around a large-format world map — according to the…