Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Krakow, Poland

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9 km
Ascend 90 m
Descend 79 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: 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)

884 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Dawny Hotel Cracovia

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Hotel Orbis "Cracovia" – a hotel in Krakow, in district VII at al. Marsz. Ferdynanda Focha 1, in Półwieś Zwierzynieckie.

Wikipedia: Hotel „Cracovia” (PL)

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Dom Władysława Ekielskiego

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Władysław Ekielski's House – a historic tenement house located at the corner of 40 Piłsudskiego Street and 25 Krasińskiego Avenue.

Wikipedia: Dom Władysława Ekielskiego w Krakowie (PL)

364 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Kościół pw. Bożego Miłosierdzia

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Kościół pw. Bożego Miłosierdzia Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Church of Divine Mercy – a historic, Roman Catholic filial church of the Wawel Cathedral Chapter. It is located in Krakow at 1 Boże Miłosierdzia Street, at the corner with 2 Felicjanek Street and Smoleńsk Street. Three masses in the Latin rite are celebrated there every Sunday, and also twice a month in the Armenian rite.

Wikipedia: Kościół Bożego Miłosierdzia w Krakowie (Nowy Świat) (PL)

88 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Kościół pw. Niepokalanego Serca Najświętszej Marii Panny

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The Church of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Felician Sisters located in Kraków, in District I at 6 Smoleńsk Street, in Nowy Świat.

Wikipedia: Kościół Niepokalanego Serca Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (ul. Smoleńsk) (PL)

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Kraków Philharmonic

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Kraków Philharmonic Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Kraków Philharmonic is the primary concert hall in Kraków, Poland. It is one of the largest auditoriums in the city. It consists of the main hall for orchestral performances with 693 seats, and two smaller venues, the Golden Hall and the Blue Hall, for chamber music concerts.

Wikipedia: Kraków Philharmonic (EN), Website

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Cerkiew Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego

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The Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a historic Greek Catholic church located in Krakow, at 11 Wiślna Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Cerkiew Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego w Krakowie (PL)

389 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Kościół Zwiastowania Najświętszej Maryi Panny

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Kościół Zwiastowania Najświętszej Maryi Panny Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic conventual church of the Capuchins located in Kraków in District I at 11 Loretańska Street, on the Sand Island

Wikipedia: Kościół Zwiastowania Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (PL)

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Sight 9: Domek loretański w Krakowie

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The Lotteran House – a building located in Kraków on the northern side of the Capuchin church at 11 Loretańska Street, on the Sand River.

Wikipedia: Domek loretański w Krakowie (PL)

289 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: 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

345 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: National Museum The Nineteenth Century Polish Art Gallery at the Sukiennice

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National Museum The Nineteenth Century Polish Art Gallery at the Sukiennice

The Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art at Sukiennice, is a division of the National Museum, Kraków, Poland. The gallery is housed on the upper floor of the Renaissance Sukiennice Cloth Hall in the center of the Main Market Square in Old Town Kraków.

Wikipedia: Sukiennice Museum (EN), Website

227 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Kościół pw. Świętego Jana Chrzciciela i Świętego Jana Ewangelisty

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The Church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist – a historic, Roman Catholic church of the Sisters of the Presentation Sisters located in Krakow, in the Old Town at 7a St. John Street. The church is a sanctuary of: Our Lady of the Redemption of Slaves, Our Lady of Freedom, Our Lady of St. John's Day, Blessed Sophia of Bohemia.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Jana Chrzciciela i św. Jana Ewangelisty w Krakowie (PL)

250 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: 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

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Kościół pw. Przemienienia Pańskiego

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The Church of the Transfiguration – a historic sacral complex, a Roman Catholic Piarist conventual church and an adjacent monastery, located in Krakow, in the Old Town at 2 Pijarska Street.

Wikipedia: Kościół Przemienienia Pańskiego w Krakowie (ul. Pijarska) (PL)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Kaplica Czartoryskich

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The Chapel of the Passion of Christ, called the Czartoryski Chapel, originally a chapter house – a Roman Catholic temple of historic character, belonging to the archcathedral parish of St. Stanislaus BM and St. Wenceslaus in Krakow. It is one of the public chapels of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslaus in Krakow at Wawel. It is located in the ground floor of the Clock Tower, at the northern aisle of the cathedral, west of the vestibule leading to the chapter house.

Wikipedia: Kaplica Czartoryskich na Wawelu (PL)

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Sight 16: Saint Florian's Gate

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Saint Florian's Gate Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

St. Florian's Gate or Florian Gate in Kraków, Poland, is one of the best-known Polish Gothic towers, and a focal point of Kraków's Old Town. It was built about the 14th century as a rectangular Gothic tower of "wild stone", part of the city fortifications against Tatar attack.

Wikipedia: St. Florian's Gate (EN)

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Grób Nieznanego Żołnierza

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – a cenotaph commemorating unknown Polish soldiers killed on the battlefields, located in Krakow on Matejko Square in front of the Grunwald Monument. On the marble pedestal there is a bronze candle, lit during the ceremony.

Wikipedia: Grób Nieznanego Żołnierza w Krakowie (PL)

349 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Matejko House

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Jan Matejko House is a museum dedicated to Polish painter Jan Matejko that was established in 1895 and has been a branch of the National Museum in Cracow since 1904.

Wikipedia: Jan Matejko House (EN)

180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Cerkiew Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny

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The Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an Orthodox parish church located in Kraków, in a tenement house at 24 Szpitalna Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Cerkiew Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (PL)

43 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Dom Pod Krzyżem

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The House under the Cross is a building at 21 Szpitalna Street in Kraków. Originally the seat of St. Roch's Hospital and the chapel of the same name, it now houses the Centre for the Interpretation of the Intangible Heritage of Krakow of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow.

Wikipedia: Dom pod Krzyżem w Krakowie (PL), Website

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Kościół pw. Świętego Krzyża

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The Church of the Holy Cross is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Old Town of Kraków at 2 Holy Spirit Square, next to the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre.

Wikipedia: Kościół Świętego Krzyża w Krakowie (PL), Website

584 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 22: Kościół pw. Świętej Trójcy

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Kościół pw. Świętej TrójcyLestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Basilica of Holy Trinity in Kraków, Poland, is a Catholic basilica. Built in a gothic style, it also houses a monastery of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). Its history dates from the year 1223.

Wikipedia: Basilica of Holy Trinity, Kraków (EN)

340 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Saint Barbara's Church

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St. Barbara's Church is a Gothic Roman Catholic church between St. Mary's Square and the Small Market Square in the Old Town of Kraków.

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

29 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 24: St. Mary's Basilica

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Saint Mary's Basilica is a Brick Gothic church adjacent to the Main Market Square in Kraków, Poland. Built in the 14th century, its foundations date back to the early 13th century and serve as one of the best examples of Polish Gothic architecture. Standing 80 m (262 ft) tall, it is particularly famous for its wooden altarpiece carved by Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz). Some of its monumental polychrome murals were designed by Poland's leading history painter, Jan Matejko (1838–1893). In 1978 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the Historic Centre of Kraków.

Wikipedia: St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków (EN), Website

284 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Kościół pw. Matki Boskiej Śnieżnej

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Kościół pw. Matki Boskiej Śnieżnej Pawel Swiegoda (Paberu) / CC BY 3.0

The Church of Our Lady of the Snows is a Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Dominican nuns, located in the Old Town of Kraków at 21 Mikołajska Street. It is also called in Gródek.

Wikipedia: Kościół Matki Boskiej Śnieżnej w Krakowie (PL)

455 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa

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Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic church of the Jesuits in Kraków.

Wikipedia: Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Kraków (EN)

244 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 27: Kościół pw. Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny

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Kościół pw. Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – a historic Roman Catholic hospital church, located in Krakow at 19 Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.

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

430 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 28: Celestat

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Celestat – a place of training for members of the Krakow Fowler Brotherhood. Originally, Celestat was located near the Mikołajska Gate, later at the palace in Łobzów. The activity of the Fowler Brotherhood was suspended from 1794 to the 30s of the nineteenth century, when a manor house with a garden, today's Strzelecki Park, was purchased at Lubicz Street. A palace was erected in this area, which today is called Celestat. It is a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow and houses the permanent exhibition From the history of the Krakow Fowler Brotherhood.

Wikipedia: Celestat (PL), Website

795 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 29: Botanic Garden Museum

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Collegium Śniadeckiego – a building of the Jagiellonian University located in Krakow at 27 Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.

Wikipedia: Collegium Śniadeckiego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (PL)

972 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 30: Kościół pw. Miłosierdzia Bożego

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The Church of Divine Mercy in Kraków – a Roman Catholic church built in the postmodern style, located at 12 Bp. W. Bandurskiego Street in Kraków in District II Grzegórzki in the Officers' Housing Estate. It belongs to the parish of Divine Mercy. The ministry is performed by diocesan priests.

Wikipedia: Kościół Bożego Miłosierdzia w Krakowie (os. Oficerskie) (PL), Website

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