Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #13 in Krakow, Poland

The Stanisław Lem Garden of Experiences in Krakow – an educational park established in 2007 in Krakow. The park is located in the south-eastern part of the Polish Aviators Park and covers an area of 6 ha. The Garden of Experiences is an open-air branch of the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow. It was designed by the Ingarden&Ewa architectural studio.

Wikipedia: Ogród Doświadczeń w Krakowie (PL), Website

The Church of St. Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Kraków, district II, at 9a Półkole Street in Dąbie.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Stanisława Biskupa i Męczennika w Krakowie (ul. Półkole) (PL), Website

The Church of St. Casimir the Prince is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Kraków in District II at 78 Grzegórzecka Street, in the Grzegórzki district.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Kazimierza Królewicza w Krakowie (ul. Grzegórzecka) (PL), Website

The Krakow Variété Theatre is a musical theatre located in Kraków at 71 Grzegórzecka Street. Its seat is located in the building of the former Związkowiec cinema theater.

Wikipedia: Krakowski Teatr Variété (PL), Website

The Wolf Popper Synagogue, located in Kraków, Poland, was a place of worship from its founding in 1620 until 1965. It used to be one of the most splendid Jewish houses of prayer in the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz. The Synagogue was founded by the eponymous Wolf Popper. Its entrance was once adorned with openwork doors depicting four animals: an eagle, a leopard, a lion, and a buck deer, which symbolize the main traits of a devout man. The synagogue, featuring porches, annexes, Aron Kodesh, rich furniture and decorations, went into a decline not long after the passing of its founder and chief benefactor. At present, Popper Synagogue serves as bookshop and also as an art gallery in the women's area upstairs.

Wikipedia: Wolf Popper Synagogue (EN)

The Old Synagogue was an Orthodox Jewish synagogue situated in the Kazimierz district of Kraków, Poland. In Yiddish it was referred to as the Alta Shul. It is the oldest synagogue building still standing in Poland, and one of the most precious landmarks of Jewish architecture in Europe. Until the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, it was one of the city's most important synagogues as well as the main religious, social, and organizational centre of the Kraków Jewish community.

Wikipedia: Old Synagogue (Kraków) (EN), Website

The Remah Synagogue is a 16th-century Jewish synagogue and the smallest of all historic synagogues in the Kazimierz district of Kraków, Poland. The synagogue is named after Rabbi Moses Isserles (c.1525–1572), known by the Hebrew acronym ReMA who's famed for writing a collection of commentaries and additions that complement Rabbi Yosef Karo's Shulchan Aruch, with Ashkenazi traditions and customs. It is currently one of two active synagogues in the city.

Wikipedia: Remah Synagogue (EN)

High Synagogue is an inactive 16th-century Orthodox Jewish synagogue located in the Kazimierz District of Kraków, Poland. Also known as the "Tall Synagogue", the name corresponds to its height or, alternatively, because the prayer hall was situated upstairs. It is the tallest synagogue in the city and is an example of Late Renaissance architecture.

Wikipedia: High Synagogue (Kraków) (EN)

The Izaak Synagogue, formally known as the Isaak Jakubowicz Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue from 1644 situated in the historic Kazimierz district of Kraków, Poland. The synagogue is named for its donor, Izaak Jakubowicz, also called Isaac the Rich, a banker to King Ladislaus IV of Poland. The synagogue was designed by Italian-born architect Francesco Olivierri.

Wikipedia: Izaak Synagogue (EN)

Kupa Synagogue is a 17th-century synagogue in Kraków, Poland. It is located in the former Jewish quarter of Kazimierz developed from a neighborhood earmarked in 1495 by King John I Albert for the Jewish community, which has been transferred from the budding Old Town. Kupa Synagogue serves Kraków's Jewish community as one of the venues for religious ceremonies and cultural festivals, notably the annual Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków.

Wikipedia: Kupa Synagogue (EN)

The Tempel Synagogue is a synagogue in Kraków, Poland, in the Kazimierz district.

Wikipedia: Tempel Synagogue (Kraków) (EN)

The Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Margaret – a Roman Catholic church with a monastery of the Augustinian Hermits located in Krakow's Kazimierz district at 7-9 Augustiańska Street. The Augustinian convent and the church are located between Skałeczna, Augustiańska, Paulińska and Skałka streets.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Katarzyny Aleksandryjskiej i św. Małgorzaty w Krakowie (PL), Website

St. Agnes Church – a historic, Baroque, Roman Catholic church, at 30 Józefa Dietla Street, in Stradom in Krakow. It serves as a garrison church.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Agnieszki w Krakowie (PL)

The Church of the Conversion of St. Paul is a Roman Catholic conventual church of the missionaries located in Kraków at 6 Stradomska Street, in Stradom.

Wikipedia: Kościół Nawrócenia św. Pawła w Krakowie (PL)

Church of St. Bernardine of Siena – a Roman Catholic rectory and conventual church of the Bernardines, located in Krakow at 2 Bernardyńska Street, in Stradom.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Bernardyna w Krakowie (PL), Website

Church of St. Giles in Kraków is a Roman Catholic church of the Dominican Order located on Grodzka Street in Kraków. Its history dates to 11th century; it has been rebuilt many times since.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Giles, Kraków (EN)

Planty is one of the largest city parks in Kraków, Poland. It encircles the Stare Miasto , where the Medieval city walls used to stand until the early 19th century. The historic Old Town is not to be confused with the Administrative District No. 1 Stare Miasto extending further east.

Wikipedia: Planty Park (Kraków) (EN)

Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Kraków, is one of the best known bronze monuments in Poland. It is the work of artists: Leonard Marconi, professor of Lviv University born in Warsaw, and his son in law, sculptor Antoni Popiel. The equestrian bronze statue of Kościuszko—Polish and American hero of independence—is located along the west side entrance to the Wawel Castle in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument, Kraków (EN)

The Vasa Gate – the oldest of the three entrance gates leading to Wawel Hill. It is located between the chapter house buildings and the Cathedral House. It is a fragment of the Wawel fortifications. In the past, in front of the building, there were: a bastion, another gate and two defensive towers, which were demolished in December 1824.

Wikipedia: Brama Wazów na Wawelu (PL)

The John Paul II Cathedral Museum is a museum in Kraków, Poland. It is situated on Wawel Hill, between the Vasa Gate and the former seat of the Castle Seminary, in the Cathedral House, which is composed of two 14th-century buildings.

Wikipedia: John Paul II Cathedral Museum (EN), Website

The Wawel Royal Castle and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland. A fortified residency on the Vistula River in Kraków, it was established on the orders of King Casimir III the Great and enlarged over the centuries into a number of structures around an Italian-styled courtyard. It represents nearly all European architectural styles of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Wikipedia: Wawel (EN)

Wawel Lost – an archaeological and architectural reserve and a permanent exhibition, located in a post-German building from the 40s of the twentieth century, erected on the site of the former royal kitchens at Wawel. It shows the architecture and history of the medieval Wawel Hill. In addition to the remains of old buildings, you can find here numerous artefacts found during excavations.

Wikipedia: Wawel Zaginiony (PL)

Jordanka Tower - one of the four residential towers of the Wawel Royal Castle, "embedded" obliquely into the eastern wing of the residence. It was built in the fourteenth century. It was originally defensive. The upper part was built in the years 1520–1533 in the Renaissance style. In 1860 a new baroque helmet was founded on the tower, which was shaped to the helmet of the tower of Zygmunt III Vasa and the helmet of the tower of Jan III Sobieski.

Wikipedia: Wieża Jordanka na Wawelu (PL)

The Crown Treasury – an exhibition in the Wawel Royal Castle, containing a collection of memorabilia left by the reigning dynasties of Polish kings.

Wikipedia: Skarbiec Koronny na Wawelu (PL), Website

The Wawel Royal Castle and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland. A fortified residency on the Vistula River in Kraków, it was established on the orders of King Casimir III the Great and enlarged over the centuries into a number of structures around an Italian-styled courtyard. It represents nearly all European architectural styles of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Wikipedia: Wawel Castle (EN)

The Women's Tower, also known as the Maiden Tower – the tower of Wawel Hill, from the fourteenth century. It was demolished by the Austrians in 1851 in connection with the construction of defensive walls around Wawel Hill. The hill became one of the elements of the Kraków Fortress.

Wikipedia: Baszta Kobieca na Wawelu (PL)

Wawel Dragon Statue is a monument at the foot of the Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland, in front of the Wawel Dragon's den, dedicated to the mythical Wawel Dragon. Installed in 1972, the statue is capable of letting out fire from it's mouth on demand.

Wikipedia: Wawel Dragon (statue) (EN)

Dżok ("Jock") was a black mongrel dog who, for the entire year (1990–1991), was seen waiting in vain at the Rondo Grunwaldzkie roundabout in Kraków, Poland, to be fetched back by his master, who had died there. A monument located on the Czerwieński Boulevard on the Vistula River in Kraków, near the Wawel Castle and the Grunwald Bridge.

Wikipedia: Dżok Monument (EN)

The Altar of the Three Millenniums – an altar standing in the courtyard of the Pauline Monastery on the Rock in Krakow, unveiled in 2008.

Wikipedia: Ołtarz Trzech Tysiącleci (PL)

Manggha is a museum in Kraków, Poland. Until 2005, it was a branch of the National Museum of Kraków.

Wikipedia: Manggha (EN), Website