Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Grodzka 52a, Kraków
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul is the first Baroque building in Kraków and one of the finest in Poland — a white-faced Italian import on a street of Gothic and Renaissance neighbours that announced, when it was completed in 1635, that the Counter-Reformation had arrived and it had budget.
Collegium Maius (Jagiellonian University)
Jagiellońska 15, Kraków
Collegium Maius is the oldest university building in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe, built in the 15th century for the Jagiellonian University — which itself was founded in 1364, making it the second-oldest university in Central Europe after Prague.
Galicia Jewish Museum
Dajwór 18, Kraków
The Galicia Jewish Museum does something most Holocaust museums don't — it looks forward as well as back.
Grodzka Street
Grodzka, Kraków
Grodzka is the oldest street in Kraków — part of the ancient trade route that connected the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean — and walking its 500-metre length from the Main Square to Wawel Castle is essentially a stroll through a thousand years of Polish architecture.
Kazimierz (Jewish Quarter)
Kazimierz, Kraków
Kazimierz was once a separate town — founded in 1335 by King Casimir the Great — that became the centre of Jewish life in Kraków for over 500 years.
MOCAK (Museum of Contemporary Art)
Lipowa 4, Kraków
MOCAK sits on the grounds of Oskar Schindler's factory — literally next door to the famous museum — but where Schindler's factory looks back, MOCAK looks relentlessly forward.
National Museum (Main Building)
3 Maja 1, Kraków
The National Museum's main building is a 1930s modernist block that holds the most comprehensive collection of Polish art in the country — and, somewhat improbably, Leonardo da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine,' one of only four surviving Leonardo portraits and arguably the most valuable painting in Poland.
Nowa Huta
Nowa Huta, Kraków
Nowa Huta is the neighbourhood that Stalin built to show Kraków what the future looked like.
Plac Nowy (Kazimierz)
Plac Nowy, Kraków
Plac Nowy is Kazimierz's scruffy, loveable heart — a circular market square centred on a rotunda building that was once a ritual slaughterhouse for kosher meat and is now surrounded by the windows of Kraków's most famous zapiekanka vendors.
Podgórze & Ghetto Heroes Square
Plac Bohaterów Getta, Kraków
Ghetto Heroes Square is where Kraków confronts its darkest chapter with stark, unforgettable public art.
Podgórze Market Square
Rynek Podgórski, Kraków
Podgórze's market square is the anti-Rynek Główny — a modest triangular plaza south of the river that most tourists cross without stopping on their way to Schindler's factory.
Remuh Synagogue & Cemetery
Szeroka 40, Kraków
The Remuh Synagogue is the smallest active synagogue in Kraków and one of only two in Kazimierz still holding regular services — a quiet, resilient fact given that this neighbourhood was once home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe.
St Florian's Church
Warszawska 1B, Kraków
St Florian's Church sits just outside the Old Town walls at the start of the Royal Road — the ceremonial route along which kings processed from the city gate to Wawel Castle for their coronation.
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