Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Krakow, Poland
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7.9 km
80 m
Explore Krakow in Poland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in KrakowIndividual Sights in KrakowSight 1: Lokomotywa AGH Ty2-559
AGH locomotive – a freight steam car of Ty2-559 series, placed as a monument-a monument of technique in front of the building of the Faculty of Metal Engineering and Industrial Computer Science of the Academy of Mining and Metal Science in Krakow. It weighs 115 tons and is 23 meters long.
Sight 2: Muzeum AGH
The AGH UST Museum of History and Technology – a university museum operating since 1960 as part of the "Centre for the History of Technology with the AGH UST Museum" unit, established three years earlier. The museum exhibits are grouped into four sections:History of Crafts and Industry Modelarium of mining and metallurgical equipment AGH UST History Hall Exposition on the University's contacts with the Holy Father John Paul II
Wikipedia: Muzeum Historii AGH i Historii Techniki (PL), Website
Sight 3: Pomorska Street
The Historical Museum of the City of Kraków in Kraków, Lesser Poland, was granted the status of an independent institution in 1945. Originally, it was a branch of the Old Records Office of Kraków, in operation from 1899.
Sight 4: Kościół Chrześcijan Baptystów w Krakowie
And the church of the Baptist Christian Church in Krakow - belongs to one of the oldest baptist communities in Lesser Poland. His history dates back to 1932 and is associated with the history of congregations in Krynica-Zdrój and Tarnów. In 1932, the first baptism in the Vistula of people belonging to the community was formed at the time, and then a formal constitution of the congregation took place. In the years 1936–1966 the services of Krakow Baptists were held at 10 Dajwór Street, then the community could participate in services in the building at Stanisława Wyspiański Street in the Łobzów district. In 1999 Zbigniew Sobczak became the pastor of the congregation. In 2009, there were 87 baptized members in the congregation. At the end of 2010, one of the institutions and the congregation moved from Nowa Huta to Wieliczka. In the first decade of the 21st century, the congregation also ran its own newspaper entitled "Road". In 1990, the congregation developed social activity, establishing a "smile" children's club, and an evangelistic artistic activity is also conducted. And the Baptist church in Krakow also cooperates with other baptist congregations in Poland and abroad.
Wikipedia: I Zbór Kościoła Chrześcijan Baptystów w Krakowie (PL), Website
Sight 5: Kościół pw. Świętego Szczepana w Krakowie
St. Stephen's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Krakow, Poland, in District V at 19 Henryka Sienkiewicza Street, in Nowa Wieś.
Sight 6: Kościół pw. Opieki Świętego Józefa
St. Joseph's Church of Care is a Roman Catholic parish and conventual church of the Discalced Carmelites located in Krakow, Poland, in District I, at 40 Łobzowska Street, in the Sand district.
Wikipedia: Kościół Opieki św. Józefa w Krakowie (PL), Website
Sight 7: Kościół pw. Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego
The Church of the Resurrection is a Roman Catholic church located in Kraków at 10 Łobzowska Street, in the Sand district, near the site of the previously demolished Church of St. Peter the Small.
Wikipedia: Kościół Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego w Krakowie (ul. Łobzowska) (PL)
Sight 8: Kościół pw. Świętego Kazimierza Królewicza
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).
Sight 9: Church of Saint Mark
St. Mark's Church is a historic Gothic Roman Catholic church located in Krakow at 10 St. Mark's Street, at the corner of Sławkowska Street, in the Old Town.
Sight 10: Kościół pw. Świętego Franciszka Salezego
The Church of St. Francis de Sales – a historic Roman Catholic church and convent of the Visitation Sisters, located at the corner of 16 Krowoderska Street and Biskupi Square in Krakow.
Sight 11: Kaplica pw. Świętej Anny
St. Anne's Chapel – a historic, neo-Renaissance Roman Catholic chapel in the Helcel Nursing Home in Kleparz in Krakow at 2 Helclów Street. In 1968, the DPS buildings and the chapel were entered into the register of monuments. The project was designed and built by Tomasz Pryliński.
Sight 12: Park imienia Jalu Kurka
Jalu Kurka Park is a park located in the Old Town District of Krakow, in the Kleparz district 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.
Sight 13: Muzeum Politechniki Krakowskiej
Museum of the Cracow University of Technology - a university museum established on June 4, 2004, and open on May 30, 2005. The museum is located on the PK campus, in the building of the former military custody. The museum collects and exposes museums related to PK and its patron - Tadeusz Kościuszka. According to the entry in the appointing act, the "museum disseminates knowledge about the history of the Cracow University of Technology, as well as about the history of technology and science and education."
Sight 14: Bastion IVa Luneta Warszawska
Redoubt Fort 12 (IVa) "Luneta Warszawska" – a redoubt fort built in the years 1850–1856, an element of the fortification system of the Kraków Fortress, located at the intersection of Kamienna Street and 29 Listopada Avenue in Kraków, entered into the register of immovable monuments of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Sight 15: Muzeum Armii Krajowej
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.
Sight 16: 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
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