Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #14 in Krakow, Poland

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 12 km
Ascend 121 m
Descend 118 m

Experience Krakow in Poland in a whole new way with our 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 Krakow

Sight 1: MuFo Rakowicka

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MuFo Rakowicka

The Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography in Kraków is a state-run photography museum in Kraków, Poland, established as the only one of its kind a mere three years before the collapse of the Soviet empire. The venue survived the transition successfully owing to new programmes. The museum building is located on Józefitów 16 street in the Krowodrza district.

Wikipedia: Museum of the History of Photography, Kraków (EN), Website

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Kościół pw. Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny

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The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic conventual church of the Discalced Carmelites, located in Kraków at 18 Rakowicka Street.

Wikipedia: Kościół Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (ul. Rakowicka) (PL)

437 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Park Strzelecki

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Strzelecki Park – a city park in Kraków, located in District II Grzegórzki between Lubicz, Bosacka, Topolowa and Zygmunta Augusta streets. The area of the park is 1.41 ha.

Wikipedia: Park Strzelecki w Krakowie (PL)

879 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: Muzeum Armii Krajowej

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The Home Army Museum in Kraków was created in Kraków, Poland in 2000, to commemorate the struggle for independence by the underground Polish Secret State and its military arm Armia Krajowa, the largest resistance movement in occupied Europe during World War II. The museum is named after general Emil August Fieldorf "Nil". It is the only such institution in Poland promoting knowledge about the Polish Underground State and its armed forces during World War II. The idea behind the Home Army Museum is to provide a holistic picture of the Polish underground, its spiritual origins and the shape of patriotic heritage to the present day.

Wikipedia: Armia Krajowa Museum in Kraków (EN), Website

784 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 5: Muzeum Politechniki Krakowskiej

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The Museum of the Cracow University of Technology is a university museum established on 4 June 2004 and opened on 30 May 2005. The museum is located on the CUT campus, in the building of the former military detention center. The museum collects and exhibits related to CUT and its patron – Tadeusz Kościuszko. According to the provision in the founding act, "The Museum disseminates knowledge about the history of the Cracow University of Technology, as well as about the history of technology, science and education.".

Wikipedia: Muzeum Politechniki Krakowskiej (PL)

502 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Park imienia Jalu Kurka

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Jalu Kurka Park – a park located in District I of the Old Town in Krakow, in Kleparz at 71 Szlak Street. It owes its name to Jalu Kurek, a Polish poet and prose writer, a representative of the so-called Krakow Avant-garde.

Wikipedia: Park Jalu Kurka (PL)

190 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Pałac Tarnowskich

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Pałac Tarnowskich Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

Montelupi Palace, also known as the Tarnowski Palace or the Palace on the Way is a 17th-century palace in Kraków, Poland. It was built for the Montelupi family, descendants of an Italian-born merchant Sebastiano Montelupi, banker in the court of King Sigismund III Vasa. The palace was later owned by the noble Tarnowski family and others.

Wikipedia: Montelupi Palace (EN)

457 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Kościół pw. Świętego Floriana

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The Collegiate Church of St. Florian is a historic church in Kraków, Poland. It stands at the northern end of Matejko Square and the former centre of the mediaeval city of Kleparz, now a district of Kraków. The edifice marks the beginning of the Royal Road.

Wikipedia: St. Florian's Church (EN), Website

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Grunwald Monument

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The Grunwald Monument is an equestrian statue of King of Poland Władysław II Jagiełło (1352–1434) located at Matejko Square in Kraków's Old Town and constructed in 1910 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald.

Wikipedia: Grunwald Monument (EN)

392 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Kościół pw. Świętego Wincentego à Paulo

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Church of St. Vincent de Paul – a historic, neo-Gothic, conventual Roman Catholic church of the Missionaries of Vincent de Paul. It is located in Krakow at 17-19 St. Philip Street in Kleparz.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Wincentego à Paulo w Krakowie (PL)

367 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa

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The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic conventual church of the Daughters of Charity located in Kraków in District I at 8 Warszawska Street, in the Kleparz district.

Wikipedia: Kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Krakowie (ul. Warszawska) (PL)

621 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 12: Kościół pw. Świętego Franciszka Salezego

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Church of St. Francis de Sales – a historic Roman Catholic church and Visitation monastery, located at the corner of 16 Krowoderska Street and Biskupi Square in Krakow.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Franciszka Salezego w Krakowie (PL)

409 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Kościół pw. Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego

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Kościół pw. Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Church of the Resurrection of the Lord – a Roman Catholic church located in Kraków at 10 Łobzowska Street, on the Sand River, near the place where the previously demolished church of St. Peter the Little existed.

Wikipedia: Kościół Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego w Krakowie (ul. Łobzowska) (PL)

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Tadeusz Rejtan

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Tadeusz Rejtan Pawel Swiegoda (Paberu) / CC BY 3.0

The Monument of Tadeusz Rejtan is a monument located in Kraków on the Square of Professor Władysław Bartoszewski, at the intersection of Basztowa, Dunajewskiego and Garbarska Streets.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Tadeusza Rejtana w Krakowie (PL)

241 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Lilla Weneda

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Monument to Lilli Wenedy in Krakow-a monument, made according to the design of Alfred Dauna, depicting the figure of Lilla Weneda, standing in the northwestern part of Planty in Krakow, in the district and the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Lilli Wenedy w Krakowie (PL)

227 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Church of Saint Mark

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St. Mark's Church – a historic, Gothic Roman Catholic church located in Krakow at 10 St. Mark Street at the corner with Sławkowska Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Marka w Krakowie (PL), Website

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Kościół pw. Świętego Kazimierza Królewicza

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Kościół pw. Świętego Kazimierza Królewicza No machine-readable author provided. Cancre assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Church of St. Casimir the Prince in Kraków, Poland – with the adjacent Franciscan monastery and the catacombs – is located at ul. Reformacka 4 street in the Old Town district. Members of the Catholic Order of Franciscans known as "Little Brothers" arrived in Kraków in 1622 and settled at the outskirts of the town in Garbary (1625).

Wikipedia: Church of St. Casimir the Prince, Kraków (EN)

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Palace of Art

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Palace of Arts - the building of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow at Plac Szczepański 4.

Wikipedia: Pałac Sztuki w Krakowie (PL)

74 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Bunkier Sztuki

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The Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art is an art gallery in Krakow located at 3a Szczepański Square, in the Old Town near the Planty Park.

Wikipedia: Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej „Bunkier Sztuki” (PL), Website

523 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 20: Pál Teleki

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Monument to Pál Teleki - a monument located in Krakow at ul. Rajska 1, in the Provincial Public Library, Stefan Dousa chisel, solemnly unveiled on August 14, 2021.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Pála Telekiego w Krakowie (PL)

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Park im. Wisławy Szymborskiej

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Wisława Szymborska Park – a city park in Krakow, located in District I of the Old Town on the Sand. It is located in a generally flat area inside a compact downtown development dominated by nineteenth-century tenement houses between Karmelicka Street in the east and Dolnych Młynów Street in the west, along the building of the Provincial Public Library, with which it is adjacent to the south and Rajska Street. The Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Carmelite monastery are also in close proximity. It covers an area of 0.8 ha.

Wikipedia: Park im. Wisławy Szymborskiej w Krakowie (PL)

530 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 22: Park Krakowski

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Park Krakowski is a 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) city park located in Kraków, in southern Poland. The park, founded in 1885, was modelled after similar parks in Vienna. It is a contemporary sculpture park.

Wikipedia: Kraków Park (EN)

296 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Muzeum AGH

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The Museum of the History of AGH UST and Technology – a university museum operating since 1960 as part of the "Centre for the History of Technology with the AGH Museum" unit established three years earlier. The museum exhibits are grouped into four sections:Department of the history of crafts and industry Modelarium of mining and metallurgical equipment AGH UST History Hall Exhibition on the University's contacts with the Holy Father John Paul II

Wikipedia: Muzeum Historii AGH i Historii Techniki (PL), Website

1303 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 24: Błonia

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Błonia Park is a vast meadow with an area of 48 hectares directly adjacent to the historic centre of the city of Kraków, Poland.

Wikipedia: Błonia (EN)

602 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 25: Jordan Park

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Jordan Park

Jordan Park was established in 1889 as the first public playground in Kraków, Poland, and the first of its kind in Europe. It was equipped with exercise fixtures modeled after those of similar playgrounds in the United States. The park is located in Kraków’s Błonia.

Wikipedia: Henryk Jordan Park, Kraków (EN), Website

671 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 26: Muzeum Geologiczne WGGiOŚ AGH

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The Geological Museum of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków is a geological museum operating within the Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection of the AGH University of Science and Technology.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Geologiczne Wydziału Geologii Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska AGH (PL)

447 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 27: The Józef Mehoffer House

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The Józef Mehoffer House – a branch of the National Museum in Krakow dedicated to the artist Józef Mehoffer, located in Krakow at 26 Krupnicza Street.

Wikipedia: Dom Józefa Mehoffera w Krakowie (PL), Website

481 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 28: Kościół pw. Świętej Anny

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Kościół pw. Świętej Anny I would appreciate being notified if you use my work outside Wikimedia. More of my work can be found in my personal gallery. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Church of St. Anne is a Roman Catholic church located at 13 św. Anny Street in the UNESCO-protected historic centre of Kraków, Poland. It is one of the leading examples of Polish Baroque architecture designed by Tylman van Gameren, but the church's history dates back to 14th century.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Anne, Kraków (EN), Website

566 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 29: Planty Park in Krakow

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Planty Park in Krakow Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Planty Park (Kraków) (EN)

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