Things to See and Do in Krakow
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- Dec 8, 2000: ... in 1945 and is still a stunning place to visit. The main market square is the largest medieval square in Europe with the ...
- Jul 30, 2006: ... I ended up in another party hostel...
Walking past the Main Market Square (Rynek Glowny) several times in my stay. I still ...
- Oct 9, 2009: ... places. We spent the first full day walking around the Main Market Square- the biggest medieval square in Europe- seeing and ...
- Aug 10, 2006: ... stomach we left and found our way to the main Market Square.
Eventually we found a place serving breakfast in the square ...
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- Sep 27, 2006: ... Town Square(recovering from our Marines technical error) we did a fantastic bike tour on our first day in the town. The tour ...
- Oct 28, 2008: ... tired, but we powered through and went on a tour of Krakow ... you guessed it, by bike! I won't lie, Krakow isn't nearly as ...
- Sep 7, 2005: ... by taking some silly pictures and what not. Spent another day doing a bike tour which was amazing. he took us to places you ...
- Oct 3, 2005: ... and bars, the old town encircled by a park. Highlights were a bike tour, old Jewish area and the World Press Photo Exhibition ...
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- May 22, 2008: ... was so beautiful. Then headed for a walk around the jewish district, and got to see Shindler's Factory, and where ...
- Sep 11, 2006: ... driver's dinner won't get cold, and Jane and I walk back to the Jewish district for some dinner of our own. We find a fairly ...
- Jan 11, 2007: ... castle hill, the old town and Kasimierz (The jewish district) and the jewish ghetto and Oskar Schindler Factory until dusk. ...
- Sep 7, 2006: ... of the day checking out the Wawel Castle, the Jewish district, the Jewish Ghetto, Schindlers factory, the old town square, ...
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- Jun 9, 2005: ... wait until greece.
So I'm writing this log retroactively about Krakow but from Cesky krumlov. What can I say, I really ...
- Jun 18, 2007: Dear all,
We now find ourselves in Poland. The train arrived here in Krakow at 05:17 this morning following a nineteen ...
- Aug 10, 2006: ... we had the cabin to ourselves which was brilliant.
So, arriving in Krakow for the first time at around 7.30am we made our ...
- Nov 25, 2005: ... clean."
We met at Auschwitz Concentration Camp near Krakow, which has sparked a new interest in the events of WWII ...
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- Sep 23, 2006: ... of the stories seem personal. We visited the Galicia Jewish Museum, created by British photojournalist Chris Schwarz, which ...
- Aug 19, 2007: ... tired. In the afternoon we made our way to the Galicia Jewish Museum that told the story of the holocaust. It was quite a ...
- Apr 9, 2008: ... didn't help their performance.
Straight after I went to the Galicia Jewish Museum (Galicia is an old name for this part of ...
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- Aug 17, 2006: ... it by 10. visited an old synagogue and went to the ethnographic museum with it recreations of polish country life, housing, ...
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- Aug 4, 2008: ... to go get Kebabs. Kebabs are extremely popular in Poland, especially Krakow. You see them on every corner, like Starbucks. ...
- Sep 24, 2006: ... , which is located in the southern part of Krakow in a shady neighbourhood. After unsuccessfully attempting to take a nap, I ...
- Mar 11, 2009: ... doing jumps outside of the train station before leaving. Krakow is a great city and such an inexpensive place to visit ...
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- Jul 29, 2006: ... from my exchange program at Jagiellonian University. It's amazing how contagious Krakow is. An significant number of the ...
- Jul 7, 2006: ... smaller than I had imagined, but impressive nonetheless. I visited Jagiellonian University, the second oldest university in ...
- Sep 12, 2007: ... the oldest University in Central Europe. It's called Jagiellonian University and it was founded back in the 13th ...
- Jul 7, 2007: ... to go on a tour of the Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University. Copernicus studied there. For my art class we got to ...
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- Jul 3, 2006: ... would be wise to visit it first.
We went to the Old Synagogue Museum, which had some really interesting exhibits on the ...
- Aug 17, 2006: ... its touristy worst and multiply it by 10. visited an old synagogue and went to the ethnographic museum with it recreations ...
- May 1, 2007: ... is now used as a park by some locals. The Old Synagogue had a great little museum on Jewish customs and traditions, ...
- Jun 30, 2008: ... is dotted with synagogues but the most notable is the 'Old Synagogue' which was originally built in the 14th century but ...
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- Jul 24, 2004: ... and a big open plaza in the middle of the castle itself. Wawel Cathedral is also quite large but is so crammed with stuff, ...
- Mar 6, 2006: ... to be crowned and buried at the Wawel Cathedral.
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We arrived in Krakow bus station off a stuffy and ...
- Nov 4, 2004: ... so they ended up tearing down the churches. Behind the Wawel Cathedral, there is a courtyard where the most one of the most ...
- Oct 9, 2009: ... on Wawel Hill. It’s a castle with Poland’s national church, Wawel Cathedral (like the Westminster Abbey of London ...
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- Sep 7, 2006: ... , we saw the Franciscan Basilica (home of art deco), St Florian's Gate, the Barbakan, and the Rembrandt and Da Vinci at the ...
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- Aug 11, 2008: ... kielbasas. Bummer! Our last night!
So we ended up at Alchemia in Kazimierz. It is a really chill place. My teacher from ...
- Oct 9, 2009: ... and eventually made our way to a famous bar called Alchemia. Overflowing into several rooms, Alchemia was dark and ...
- Sep 3, 2008: ... ; Cappuccinos were about the same.
Krakow was an excellent introduction to Poland. I would like to check out ...
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- Aug 28, 1999: ... After that I headed to the Florian Gate and the Barbican, a defensive bastion built in 1498. I hung around in the lively old ...
- Dec 8, 2000: ... Gate, the only to remain and behind it the defensive bastion of the Barbican. We also visited the Czartoryski Museum, which ...
- Oct 12, 2005: Arriving in Krakow, Poland
We took a night train last night to get here, which is an experience in itself. This was a new ...
- Jun 30, 2008: ... it. In fact the only remaining part of the wall is 'the Barbican' a defensive bastion accessed by walking up ul Florianska ...
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- Jul 24, 2004: ... It actually feels like two squares because there's a 16th century cloth hall in the center that divides the two sides. One ...
- Aug 3, 2006: ... saw the city AND when I came up with the nickname). The Cloth Hall, the building that runs through the square, looks like it ...
- Nov 9, 2008: ... in this square. At the centre of it is the Sukiennice (Cloth Hall), this was the first shopping centre in all of Poland. It ...
- Aug 28, 1999: ... Square dominated by the townhall tower, statues and the cloth hall with markets inside the yellow renaissance hall dating ...
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Krakow dormitory, Barbakan, Grunwald Monument
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