Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Krakow, Poland

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.2 km
Ascend 173 m
Descend 87 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: 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 2: 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

689 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: 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)

476 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: 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

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: 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

43 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: 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)

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: 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)

120 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Museum of Pharmacy

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Museum of Pharmacy

Muzeum Farmacji Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego is a museum on Floriańska Street, Kraków, Poland, specializing in the history of pharmacy and pharmaceutical technology. It was established in 1946.

Wikipedia: Pharmacy Museum of the Jagiellonian University Medical College (EN), Website

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: 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)

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: 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)

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Sight 11: 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)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

88 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Muzeum XX. Czartoryskich w Krakowie

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The Princes Czartoryski Museum – often abbreviated to Czartoryski Museum – is a historic museum in Kraków, Poland, and one of the country's oldest museums. The initial collection was formed in 1796 in Puławy by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The Museum officially opened in 1878. It is now a division of the National Museum in Kraków.

Wikipedia: Czartoryski Museum (EN), Website

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: 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 15: 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)

221 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: 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

498 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: 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

304 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: 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)

10 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 19: 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)

281 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Kościół pw. Świętej Anny

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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

314 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: 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)

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: 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

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: 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)

370 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa

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Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus located in Kraków in District I at 24 Garncarska Street, in Nowy Świat.

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

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: 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)

1006 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 26: 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)

1356 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 27: Diabelski Most

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Diabelski Most Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Devil's Bridge – a historic building, one of the buildings of the Austrian Fortress of Kraków. It is located in the western part of Krakow, in District VII, at the intersection of Malczewskiego Street and Waszyngtona Avenue in Zwierzyniec.

Wikipedia: Diabelski Most w Krakowie (PL)

880 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 28: Góra św. Bronisławy

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St. Bronisława Hill – the eastern peak of a two-peaked hill in the eastern part of the Sowiniec Range in Kraków. The western peak is Sikornik (296 m) separated by a shallow pass. St. Bronisława's Hill is longer than Sikornik. Geographically, both hills belong to the Kraków Bridge within the macroregion of the Kraków Gate.

Wikipedia: Góra św. Bronisławy (PL)

2 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 29: Kaplica pw. Błogosławionej Bronisławy

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Chapel of Blessed Bronisława is a neo-Gothic Roman Catholic chapel in Kraków, Poland, erected in 1856–61 within the walls of a military citadel constructed during the Austrian Partition of Poland by the Habsburg monarchy. The chapel was meant as a replacement for the Polish 18th-century church demolished by the Austrians in 1854 during the construction of the stronghold in the Zwierzyniec district.

Wikipedia: Blessed Bronisława Chapel (EN)

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 30: Kościuszko Mound

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Kościuszko Mound

Kościuszko Mound is an artificial mound in Kraków, Poland. It was erected by Cracovians in commemoration of the Polish national leader Tadeusz Kościuszko, and modelled after Kraków's prehistoric mounds of Krak and Wanda. A serpentine path leads to the top, approximately 326 metres (1,070 ft) above sea level, with a panoramic view of the Vistula River and the city.

Wikipedia: Kościuszko Mound (EN), Website

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