Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Krakow, Poland
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Experience Krakow in Poland in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in KrakowIndividual Sights in KrakowSight 1: Opera Krakowska
The Opera Krakowska is an opera house located in Kraków, Poland. It was founded in 1954 in postwar Kraków, although the tradition of opera in the city dates back to 1628 when the first ever full libretto in Polish was released by the local publishing house, followed by the first fully-fledged opera performance in the city in March 1782. The Kraków Opera company stages 200 performances each year, including ballet, operettas and musicals for the young, with an audience occupancy rate of 98%. The Kraków Opera's main repertoire includes both international and Polish operatic classics, reaffirming its status as one of the country's leading opera companies.
Sight 2: Muzeum Paleobotaniczne UJ
The Palaeobotanical Museum of the Jagiellonian University – a museum operating in the years 2003–2017 in the building of the Institute of Botany of the Jagiellonian University at 31 Kopernika Street in Krakow.
Wikipedia: Muzeum Paleobotaniczne Instytutu Botaniki UJ w Krakowie (PL)
Sight 3: Botanical Garden
The Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University is a botanical garden, founded in 1783 in Kraków. It is located east of the Old Town and occupies 9.6 hectares. It belongs to the Jagiellonian University and is classified as a historical location.
Wikipedia: Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University (EN)
Sight 4: Muzeum Ogrodu Botanicznego UJ
The Museum of the Botanical Garden is a museum located in the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University in the Śniadecki Collegium. It has the oldest botanical collection of a museum character in Poland.
Sight 5: Botanic Garden Museum
Collegium Śniadeckiego – a historic building of the Jagiellonian University located in Kraków, in the II Grzegórzki district at 27 Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.
Wikipedia: Collegium Śniadeckiego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (PL)
Sight 6: Kościół pw. Świętej Teresy od Jezusa i Świętego Jana od Krzyża
The Church of St. Theresa of Jesus and St. John of the Cross is a historic Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Discalced Carmelites located in Kraków, in the II Grzegórzki district at 44 Mikołaja Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.
Wikipedia: Kościół św. Teresy od Jezusa i św. Jana od Krzyża w Krakowie (PL)
Sight 7: Kościół pw. Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny
The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – a historic Roman Catholic hospital church located in Kraków, in the II Grzegórzki district at 19 Mikołaja Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.
Wikipedia: Kościół Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (ul. Kopernika) (PL)
Sight 8: Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic church of the Jesuits in Kraków.
Wikipedia: Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Kraków (EN)
Sight 9: Kościół pw. Świętego Mikołaja
St. Nicholas Church – a historic, Roman Catholic parish church located in Kraków, in the Old Town district at 9 Mikołaja Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.
Sight 10: Museum of Anatomy
The Museum of the History of Medicine, full name of the Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum – the oldest museum in Poland devoted to medical sciences, a unit of the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum.
Sight 11: Pałac Pusłowskich w Krakowie
The Pusłowski Palace is a villa located in Kraków, in the Old Town District I, at 10 Westerplatte Street in Wesoła Street.
Sight 12: Kościół pw. Matki Boskiej Śnieżnej
Church of Our Lady of the Snows – a historic Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Dominican nuns, located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 21 Mikołajska Street, in the Old Town. It is also called in Gródek.
Sight 13: Jednostka Ratowniczo-Gaśnicza PSP nr 1 w Krakowie
Fire Watchtower - built in Krakow at 19 Westerplatte Street in 1877–1879 according to the design of Maciej Moraczewski in the neo -Gothic style for the municipal professional fire brigade on the initiative of President Zyblikiewicz.
Sight 14: Krak
Monument to Krak - a monument located in Krakow in the Old Town at 16 Sienna Street, in the courtyard of the National Archives.
Sight 15: Muzeum i Archiwum Marii Angeli Truszkowskiej
The Museum and Archive of Maria Angela Truszkowska – the Blessed Foundress of the Felician Sisters – one of the church museums in Krakow, located in a historic tenement house, which is the convent house of the Congregation of the Felician Sisters, and located at 18 Mikołajska Street, at the corner with 8 St. Krzyża Street.
Wikipedia: Muzeum i Archiwum bł. Marii Angeli Truszkowskiej w Krakowie (PL), Website
Sight 16: Kościół pw. Świętego Tomasza Apostoła
Church of St. Thomas the Apostle – a historic Roman Catholic conventual church of the Holy Spirit, located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 14 Szpitalna Street, at the corner with 23 St. Thomas Street, in the Old Town.
Sight 17: Ołtarz Wita Stwosza
The Altarpiece by Veit Stoss, also St. Mary's Altar, is a large Gothic altarpiece and a national treasure of Poland. It is located behind the high altar of St. Mary's Basilica in the city of Kraków. The altarpiece was carved between 1477 and 1489 by the German-born sculptor Veit Stoss who lived and worked in the city for over 20 years.
Sight 18: Saint Barbara's Church
St. Barbara's Church – a historic Gothic Roman Catholic church between St. Mary's Square and the Small Market Square in the Old Town of Krakow.
Sight 19: St. Mary's Basilica
Saint Mary's Basilica is a Brick Gothic church adjacent to the Main Market Square in Kraków, Poland. Built in the 14th century, its foundations date back to the early 13th century and serve as one of the best examples of Polish Gothic architecture. Standing 80 m (262 ft) tall, it is particularly famous for its wooden altarpiece carved by Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz). Some of its monumental polychrome murals were designed by Poland's leading history painter, Jan Matejko (1838–1893). In 1978 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the Historic Centre of Kraków.
Sight 20: Cloth Hall
The Kraków Cloth Hall, in Lesser Poland, dates to the Renaissance and is one of the city's most recognizable monuments. It is the central feature of the main market square in the Kraków Old Town, which since 1978 has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sight 21: Main Square
The Main Square of the Old Town of Kraków, Lesser Poland, is the principal urban space located at the center of the city. It dates back to the 13th century, and at 3.79 ha is sometimes called the largest medieval town square in Europe, but Charles Square in Prague is two times larger. The Project for Public Spaces (PPS) lists the square as the best public space in Europe due to its lively street life, and it was a major factor in the inclusion of Kraków as one of the top off-the-beaten-path destinations in the world in 2016.
Sight 22: Rynek Underground
The Rynek Underground museum of Kraków is situated below the market square of the city. The museum is approximately 4000 square meters in size.
Sight 23: Walenty Badylak's Well
Badylak's Well – a well named after Walenty Badylak, located on the Main Market Square in Krakow.
Sight 24: National Museum The Nineteenth Century Polish Art Gallery at the Sukiennice
The Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art at Sukiennice, is a division of the National Museum, Kraków, Poland. The gallery is housed on the upper floor of the Renaissance Sukiennice Cloth Hall in the center of the Main Market Square in Old Town Kraków.
Sight 25: Nóż
Knife in the Cloth Hall in Kraków – a replica of an iron knife hanging on a chain in a passage located on the shorter axis of the building.
Sight 26: Adam Mickiewicz Monument
Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Kraków,, is one of the best known bronze monuments in Poland, and a favourite meeting place at the Main Market Square in the Old Town district of Kraków.
Sight 27: St. Adalbert's church
The Church of St. Adalbert or the Church of St. Wojciech, located on the intersection of the Main Market Square and Grodzka Street in Old Town, Kraków, is one of the oldest stone churches in Poland. Its almost 1000-year-old history goes back to the beginning of the Polish Romanesque architecture of the early Middle Ages. Throughout the early history of Kraków the Church of St. Wojciech was a place of worship first visited by merchants travelling from across Europe. It was a place where citizens and nobility would meet.
Sight 28: Planty Park in Krakow
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.
Sight 29: Bazylika Przenajświętszej Trójcy
The Basilica of the Holy Trinity in Kraków, Poland, is a Catholic basilica. Built in a gothic style, it also houses a monastery of the Order of Preachers. Its history dates from the year 1223.
Sight 30: Kościół pw. Świętego Józefa
St. Joseph's Church – a historic Roman Catholic conventual church of the Bernardine Sisters, located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 21 Poselska Street, in the Old Town.
Wikipedia: Kościół św. Józefa w Krakowie (ul. Poselska) (PL)
Sight 31: Muzeum Przyrodnicze PAN
The Museum of Natural History in Krakow is a museum located in Krakow at 9 St. Sebastian Street. There is a prepared, perfectly preserved, prehistoric woolly rhinoceros, the only completely preserved specimen of this animal in the world, extinct over 12 thousand years ago. Since October 2012, it has resumed its activity.
Wikipedia: Muzeum Przyrodnicze Instytutu Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN (PL), Website
Sight 32: Kościół pw. Świętego Idziego
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.
Sight 33: Kościół Świętego Marcina
St. Martin's Church – a historic Evangelical church located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 56 Grodzka Street, in the Old Town.
Sight 34: Piotr Skarga
The Monument of Piotr Skarga in Kraków is a monument to the Jesuit theologian and preacher Piotr Skarga, located on Maria Magdalena Square in Kraków, opposite the Church of St. Peter and Paul, where Skarga is buried. Its author is Czesław Dźwigaj, and the founder is the Archconfraternity of Mercy.
Sight 35: Church of Saint Andrew
The Church of St. Andrew in the Old Town district of Kraków, Poland located at Grodzka Street, is a historical Romanesque church built between 1079 and 1098 by a medieval Polish statesman Palatine Sieciech. It is a rare surviving example of the European fortress church used for defensive purposes.
Sight 36: Church of Saints Peter and Paul
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul is a Roman Catholic Polish Baroque church located at 54 Grodzka Street in the Old Town district of Kraków, Poland. It was built between 1597–1619 by Giovanni Maria Bernardoni who perfected the original design of Józef Britius. It is the biggest of the historic Churches of Kraków in terms of seating capacity. Since 1842 it serves the Catholic All Saints parish.
Sight 37: Geological Museum
Muzeum Geologiczne Instytutu Nauk Geologicznych PAN w Krakowie is a museum in Kraków, Poland. The collection dates back to 1865.
Sight 38: Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz
The Monument of Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz in Kraków is a monument depicting Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz, built in 1887 in Kraków, designed by Walery Gadomski, located on All Saints Square next to the Monument of Józef Dietl in Kraków.
Sight 39: Józef Dietl
The Józef Dietl Monument is a monument by Xawery Dunikowski located on All Saints Square, in front of the municipal building in Kraków.
Sight 40: Kraków Philharmonic
The Kraków Philharmonic is the primary concert hall in Kraków, Poland. It is one of the largest auditoriums in the city. It consists of the main hall for orchestral performances with 693 seats, and two smaller venues, the Golden Hall and the Blue Hall, for chamber music concerts.
Sight 41: Kościół pw. Niepokalanego Serca Najświętszej Marii Panny
The Church of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a historic Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Felician Sisters located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 6 Smoleńsk Street, in Nowy Świat.
Wikipedia: Kościół Niepokalanego Serca Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (ul. Smoleńsk) (PL)
Sight 42: Kościół pw. Bożego Miłosierdzia
The Church of Divine Mercy – a historic, Roman Catholic filial church of the Wawel Cathedral Chapter. It is located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 1 Boże Miłosierdzia Street, at the corner with 2 Felicjanek Street and Smoleńsk Street, on Nowy Świat Street.
Wikipedia: Kościół Bożego Miłosierdzia w Krakowie (Nowy Świat) (PL)
Sight 43: Dawny Hotel Cracovia
Hotel Orbis "Cracovia" – a historic hotel in Krakow, in district VII at al. Ferdynanda Focha 1, in Półwieś Zwierzynieckie.
Sight 44: Teatr Scena STU
Theater Scena STU is located at 16 Krasinskiego Street in Kraków, Poland. Established in 1966 by Krzysztof Jasiński, it started as a member of a group of nonprofessional student theaters. It is considered to be one of the city's most important cultural institutions. The current artistic director is Krzysztof Jasiński.
Sight 45: Kaplica pw. Świętego Piotra i Świętego Pawła
The Chapel of Saints Peter and Paul the Apostles is a historic chapel located in Kraków, in district VIII at 13 Madalińskiego Street, in Dębniki.
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