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79 reviews 11 travel blogs 2 photos Attraction Type:
Scenic/historic walking area
Traveler PhotosThe Planty Krakow
The Planty (park around the old town) Krakow, Poland
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The Planty Krakow, Poland
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Related BlogsThe Planty Krakow
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Krakow
... The main town center is inside what once was a big moat and now is a loop park around the old walls, called The Planty. There are also remains of ancient city walls in places. We spent the first full day walking around the Main Market Square- the ...
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Like Prague in miniature
... . Large enough that there's a good few days exploring to be done, yet small enough not to be overwhelming and all contained by the planty, a ring of parks where the town walls used to stand. Just outside this to the south stands Kazimierz, the old Jewish ...
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Krakow in 1 day
... you wish to rest after visiting, and there is really so much more to visit, you can hang out in one of the parks, especially the 'Planty', which surrounds the whole Old Town. An interesting experience will be visiting one of the numerous pubs in the ...
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poland
... the city remembers this moment. Quite an amusing tale I thought. The old town is surrounded by a tree filled area known as 'the Planty'. In medieval times the old town was protected by a defensive wall but over time it has largely been demolished ...
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Krak Heads
... the areas surrounding it felt like a mesh of many different cities to me. The Old Town, which is basically the "tourist's Krakow", is surrounded by the Planty. This is a belt of park areas (which used to be the walls and moat) surrounding the Old ...
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Krakow
... . A traditional dish honest. It was a lovely day and I was feeling really tired so I went for a sit in the park. The park being the Planty, which was the moat that they filled in. The longer I am here the more I seem to blend in as so ...
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Not quite a usual day
... day. Two guys in our Polish class told us about this church (Church of the Reformed Franciscans) right off the Planty (the park surrounding the Rynek) which has preserved I guess catacoumbs and graves from the 17th, 18th and 19th century. Apparently ...
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Shoulda... didn't... am I damned to hell?
... well as a small part of the old defense wall. Most of the city wall was dismantled in the 19th century and replace with the Planty Garden. I wandered back to the Main Market Square and had a bit to eat. The square was PACKED with tourists and a small ...
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a taste of Poland
... after take until she slips and falls into the fountain she is walking on and hurts her foot. After a walk through the Planty, the former moat turned garden area surrounding the old town, we have a quick ice cream and head back to the ...
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Another Great City!
... to enjoy McNuggets. Outside of the city wall, there used to be a moat, but it was filled in and turned into a park known as the Planty, based not on the English root for plant, but on a Polish word that means "flat." The next highlight was ...
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- Rakowicki Cemetery
- Klub Ministerstwo
- Twelve Apostles
- Church of St. Andrew (Kosciol Swietogo Andrzeja)
- New Jewish Cemetery
- Jagiellonian University - Collegium Juridicum
- Coffee Shop Farewell to Africa (Sklep z Kawa Pozegnanie z Afryka)
- Miasto Krakoff
- Franciscan Church (Kosciol Franciszkanow)
- Town Hall Tower (Wieza Ratuszowa)
- Church of the Virgin Mary (Kosciol Mariacki)
- Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)
- Main Market Square (Rynek Glowny)
- Ulica Florianska
- Ulica Kanonicza
- Reformed Tempel Synagogue (Synagoga Tempel)
- Dzok Monument
- Florianska Gate
- Remuh Synagogue (Synagoga Remuh)
- Old Market Square