Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Krakow, Poland

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

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

The Mańkowski Palace is a historic, neoclassical palace located in Kraków, in the II Grzegórzki district, at 5 Topolowa Street, in Wesoła Street.

Wikipedia: Pałac Mańkowskich w Krakowie (PL)

The Monument of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Strzelecki Park is a monument commemorating Ignacy Jan Paderewski, located in Kraków, in District II Grzegórzki in Strzelecki Park, at 16 Lubicz Street, in Wesoła Street.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego w Krakowie (park Strzelecki) (PL)

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

Wikipedia: Park Strzelecki w Krakowie (PL)

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

The Palace of Wołodkowicz or Wołłodokkowicz is a building located in Kraków, at 4 Lubicz Street, next to the Kraków Główny railway station and Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Square, on Wesoła Street.

Wikipedia: Pałac Wołodkowiczów w Krakowie (PL)

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)

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)

The Jan Matejko Monument is a monument in Kraków in the Planty Park at Basztowa Street, on the west side of the Barbican, opposite the Academy of Fine Arts, in the area where the monument to the soldiers of the Soviet Army was located until 1997.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Jana Matejki w Krakowie (PL)

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)

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)

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

The Church of the Transfiguration is a historic sacral complex, a Roman Catholic Piarist conventual church and an adjacent monastery, located in Kraków, in the First District of the Old Town at 4 Pijarska Street, in the Old Town.

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

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)

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

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 district I at 7a St. John Street, in the Old Town. 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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

The Piwnica pod Baranami is a Polish literary cabaret located in Kraków, Poland. For over thirty years, in the People's Republic of Poland, Piwnica pod Baranami served as the most renowned political cabaret in the country, until the end of the communist era. Created by Piotr Skrzynecki in 1956, the cabaret continues its activities, contrary to rumours that it has been closed after the death of its founder in 1997. It resides at its original location in the medieval Old Town district, at the Main Market Square.

Wikipedia: Piwnica pod Baranami (EN)

The Jagiellonian University Museum is a museum located in the Collegium Maius building of the Jagiellonian University, at the corner of St. Anne and Jagiellońska Streets in Krakow. It originates from the Archaeological Cabinet of the University, founded in 1867 by Professor Józef Łepkowski, and owes its current shape primarily to Karol Estreicher.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (PL), Website

The Professor's Garden – a garden with an area of about 0.15 hectares in Krakow in the Old Town at 17 Jagiellońska Street.

Wikipedia: Ogród Profesorski w Krakowie (PL)

Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj, also spelled Kołłątay, was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment. He served as Deputy Chancellor of the Crown between 1791–92. He was a Catholic priest, social and political activist, political thinker, historian, philosopher, and polymath.

Wikipedia: Hugo Kołłątaj (EN)

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

Wikipedia: Cerkiew Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego w Krakowie (PL)

The John Paul II Monument is a monument commemorating John Paul II, located in Kraków, in the Old Town district I, in the courtyard of the Bishop's Palace at 3 Franciszkańska Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Jana Pawła II na dziedzińcu Pałacu Biskupiego (Kraków) (PL)

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

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

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

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

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

The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum, also known as the Czapski Museum is a branch of the National Museum of Kraków, 12 Pilsudski Street, Kraków.

Wikipedia: Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum (EN)

The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – a historic Roman Catholic conventual church of the Capuchins located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 11 Loretańska Street, on the Sand Island.

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

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)

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

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

The Palace of Arts – the building of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow at 4 Szczepański Square.

Wikipedia: Pałac Sztuki w Krakowie (PL)

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)

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

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

Marfiewicz's Palace in Kraków – a tenement house erected in the years 1858–1862 in Kraków-Piasek at Juliana Dunajewskiego Street, entered into the register of immovable monuments of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

Wikipedia: Pałacyk Marfiewicza w Krakowie (PL)

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)

Wisława Szymborska Park is a city park in Kraków, located in the First District 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)

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)

The National Museum in Kraków, popularly abbreviated as MNK, is the largest museum in Poland, and the main branch of Poland's National Museum, which has several independent branches with permanent collections around the country. Established in 1879, the museum consists of 21 departments which are divided by art period: 11 galleries, 2 libraries, and 12 conservation workshops. It holds some 780,000 art objects, spanning from classical archeology to modern art, with special focus on Polish painting. In 2023, the museum was visited by over 1.65 million people, making it the third most-visited art museum in Poland and the 37th most-visited art museum in the world.

Wikipedia: National Museum in Kraków (EN)

Stained Glass Workshop and Museum - a specialty museum in Krakow, Poland dedicated to stained glass art and history.

Wikipedia: Stained Glass Museum, Kraków (EN), Website

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

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)