Barbican
Basztowa, Kraków
The Barbican is a circular brick fortress that once guarded the main gate into medieval Kraków, and it's the best-preserved example of its kind in Europe.
Rynek Główny (Main Market Square)
Rynek Główny, Kraków
Rynek Główny is the largest medieval town square in Europe — 40,000 square metres of open space ringed by townhouses, churches, and pavement cafés that has been the beating heart of Kraków since the city was laid out on a grid in 1257.
Schindler's Factory Museum
Lipowa 4, Kraków
Oskar Schindler's enamelware factory is now one of the most powerful museums in Europe — not because of Schindler himself, but because of the way it tells the story of Kraków under Nazi occupation through the details of ordinary life.
St Mary's Basilica
Plac Mariacki 5, Kraków
St Mary's Basilica dominates the Main Square with two mismatched towers — one 81 metres tall, the other 69 — which, according to legend, were built by two brothers in competition.
Sukiennice (Cloth Hall)
Rynek Główny 1/3, Kraków
The Cloth Hall is a Renaissance arcade sitting in the dead centre of Europe's largest medieval square, and it's been operating as a marketplace since the 14th century — which arguably makes it the world's oldest shopping mall, though the comparison does it a disservice.
Wawel Cathedral
Wawel 3, Kraków
Wawel Cathedral is where Poland crowns its kings and buries its heroes — and the list of people interred here reads like a complete history of the nation.
Wawel Royal Castle
Wawel 5, Kraków
Wawel Castle sits on a limestone hill above the Vistula River and has been the seat of Polish power since the 11th century.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Daniłowicza 10, Wieliczka
Wieliczka is what happens when miners spend 700 years underground and get bored.
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