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4 Days in Kraków
Four days in Kraków: the Old Town around the Rynek, Wawel and Jewish Kazimierz, a day at the Wieliczka Salt Mine with Podgórze in the afternoon, and a final morning between the Collegium Maius and the Barbican.
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The plan, day by day
Day 1Settling in at the Rynek
Arrival in Kraków
Hotel check-in
Base yourself in the Old Town between Grodzka and the Planty, from where the Rynek, Wawel and Kazimierz are all within walking distance.
Rynek Główny and the Cloth Hall
Europe's largest medieval market square, with the Cloth Hall at its centre, where amber and wood carvings are still sold on the ground floor.
St Mary's Basilica and the Veit Stoss Altarpiece
In the chancel stands Veit Stoss's 13-metre-high winged altarpiece, opened every day at 11:50; on the hour, the trumpeter in the tower breaks off his call mid-note.
Planty park ring around the Old Town
This four-kilometre park follows the line of the demolished city walls and loops past the Collegium Novum, the university and Wawel.
Evening: ul. Floriańska and the cellar bars
The street from the Rynek to St Florian's Gate is lively in the evening, and in the vaulted cellars of the side streets you can sit over beer and pierogi until late.
Day 2Wawel and Jewish Kazimierz
Wawel Cathedral and the Sigismund Bell
Coronation and burial church of the Polish kings; a narrow wooden staircase leads up to the Sigismund Bell of 1520, whose clapper, according to legend, brings luck if you touch it.
Wawel Royal Castle — State Rooms
A Renaissance arcaded courtyard and state rooms with the Flemish tapestries of Sigismund II Augustus and the coffered ceiling full of carved heads.
Old Synagogue on Szeroka Street
Poland's oldest surviving synagogue, from the 15th century, now a museum of the history of Kraków's Jews, with the railed bimah in the main hall.
Remuh Synagogue and Old Jewish Cemetery
A small house of prayer still in use today; behind it, the 16th-century cemetery whose shattered gravestones were pieced together after the war into a “Wailing Wall”.
Galicia Jewish Museum
The permanent photographic exhibition “Traces of Memory” documents the remnants of Jewish life across Galicia — crumbling synagogues, overgrown cemeteries, places of remembrance.
Evening: Plac Nowy and the bars of ul. Józefa
Around the round market hall known as “Okrąglak”, hatches sell zapiekanki until after midnight, and the courtyards of ul. Józefa are full of small bars.
Day 3Wieliczka Salt Mine and Podgórze
Wieliczka Salt Mine
The Tourist Route takes you 380 steps down through 13th-century tunnels to the Chapel of St Kinga, whose chandeliers and reliefs are carved entirely from rock salt.
Ghetto Heroes Square and the Eagle Pharmacy
The square holds 70 oversized chairs for the luggage of the deported; on the corner, the pharmacy of Tadeusz Pankiewicz, the only non-Jew who stayed in the ghetto, shows his dispensary.
Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory
In the former factory at Lipowa 4, the exhibition “Kraków under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945” tells its story with walk-through sets; Schindler's office with the card index of his workers has survived.
Krakus Mound
A prehistoric earth mound above Podgórze, from whose top you take in the city's whole sweep from Wawel to Nowa Huta.
Evening: Vistula boulevards below Wawel
Along the Bulwary Wiślane, firmly moored barges serve as bars, and the illuminated Wawel is reflected in the water opposite.
Day 4University quarter and farewell
Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University
Poland's oldest university building, with a Gothic arcaded courtyard, the assembly hall and the astronomical instruments Copernicus learned with as a student.
St Florian's Gate and the Barbican
The only surviving city gate and the round bastion of 1499 with seven turrets; painters hang their pictures on the wall next to it.
Departure from Kraków
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