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AB CITY TOUR (sightseeing by electric car)
Routes: Old City, Kazimierz
Language: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Polish
MELEX (sightseeing by electric car)
Tickets:
Old Town + Kazimierz: 11 EUR/adult, 9 EUR/child
Old Town + Kazimierz + Schindler's Factory: 14 EUR/adult, 11 child
Schedule: April-October 10:00, 12:00
Language: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, Russian, Portugese, Norwegian, Swedish
Price: 59 PLN/person
Schedule: March-November 13:00
Starting: Kanonicza Street
Rates: 5 PLN/hour, 30 PLN/day, 80-120 PLN/week
Rates: 70 PLN/ 5 hours, 130 PLN/day, 110 PLN/every additional day
Opening hours: April-October, Tuesday-Friday 9:30-17:00, Saturday-Sunday 11:00-18:00, November-March, Tuesday-Saturday 9:30-16:00, Sunday 10:00-16:00, Monday closed
(last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Tickets: 15-17 PLN/adult, 8-10 PLN/child
Free entrance April-October Monday, November-March Sunday.
Getting there: walking from the city centre
Wawel is an architectural complex erected over many centuries atop a limestone outcrop on the left bank of the Vistula River at an altitude of 228 meters above the sea level. The Royal Castle with the crown treasury and armory and the Wawel Cathedral are situated on the hill. The stately halls and exquisite chambers of Royal Castle are filled with priceless art, best period furniture and rare ancient objects. The collection of the 16th-century monumental Flemish tapestries is matchless. The Wawel Cathedral has a 1,000-year history and was the traditional coronation and burial site of Polish monarchs.
MUZEUM ARCHDIECEZJALNE KAROLA WOJTYLY
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-16:00, Saturday-Sunday 10:00-15:00, Monday closed
Tickets: 5 PLN/adult, 3 PLN/child
Getting there: walking from the city centre
The Archdiocesan Museum displays a collection of sacral works of art often withdrawn from worship, from the 14th to the 18th century in the following sections: painting, artistic craft, sculpture, canonicals. Visitors should also be aware that from 1952 to 1967 in both of the present museum houses lived Professor Father Karol WojtyÅ‚a (presently Pope John Paul II), in those days acting as suffragan bishop of Kraków and later as metropolitan archbishop. The museum collects and displays pieces related to His Holiness Pope John Paul II since he started to dwell in the houses.
SYNAGOGA IZAAKA
Opening hours: Sunday-Friday 9:00-19:00, Monday closed
Tickets: 7 PLN/adult, 6 PLN/child
Getting there: walking from the city centre
Dating from 1664, the Isaak Synagogue is considered by many to be the most beautiful synagogue in Krakow. The synagogue now houses an exhibition on the history of Polish Jews. On display are moving photographs of former Kazimierz residents and their families as well as the main treasure: several older documentary films on Kazimierz that run continuously during the day.
FABRYKA OSKAR SCHINDLERA - EMALIA
Opening hours: on request
Tickets: 7 PLN/person
Getting there: Tram 6, 8, 10 - Korona
Oscar Schindler's factory has a sign outside, just like the original sign, which says Deutsche Emalia Fabrika - Oscar Schindler. The visitors can see the stairs and the office at the top that were used in the filming of the movie “Schindler’s list”. The rest of the factory is off limits but visitors can look around the grounds.
Opening hours: every day 21:00, 23:00
Price: 7 PLN/person
Starting: main square
Krakow is rumored to have more drinking places per square meter than any other city in Europe.
Getting there: Train from Krakow Glowny station to Auschwitz - 65 km, 45 minutes - 44 PLN/return
AUSCHWITZ / BIRKENAU CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Opening hours: December-February 8:00-15:00, March and November 8:00-16:00, April and October 8:00-17:00, May and September 8:00-18:00, June-August 8:00-19:00
Free entrance.
Getting there: 2 kms walking from the train station (Shuttle Bus between Auschwitz and Birkenau, every 30 minutes)
Duration: 3-4 hours
Auschwitz was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I; Auschwitz II-Birkenau; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, also known as Buna, a labor camp; and 45 satellite camps. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is devoted to the memory of the murders in both camps during World War II. The museum performs several tasks, among them research into the Holocaust.
Getting there: Train from Krakow Glowny station to Wieliczka - 10 km, 25 minutes - 8 PLN/return
Opening hours: April-October 7:30-19:30, November-March 8:00-17:00
Tickets: 65 PLN/adult, 51 PLN/child
Permission for taking photos or filming: 10 PLN
Audioguide: 10 PLN
Getting there: walking from the train station
Duration: 2-3 hours
The Wieliczka Salt Mine lies within the Kraków metropolitan area. The mine continuously produced table salt from the 13th century until 2007 as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines. The Wieliczka salt mine reaches a depth of 327 meters and is over 300 km long. It features a 3,5-km touring route for visitors that includes historic statues, mythical figures and an entire cathedral that have been carved out of the rock salt by the miners. In 1978 the Wieliczka salt mine was placed on the original UNESCO list of the World Heritage Sites.
Getting there: Train from Krakow Glowny station to Czestochowa - 115 km, 2,5 hours -
62 PLN/return
Opening hours: 5:00-21:30
Free entrance.
Getting there: 15-20 minutes walking from the train station
Duration: 1-1,5 hours
The large baroque monastery of Jasna Góra dominates a hilltop in CzÄ™stochowa and is always bustling with pilgrims and worshippers. It is the most famous shrine to the Virgin Mary in Poland and the country's greatest place of pilgrimage - for many its spiritual capital. The image of Black Madonna of CzÄ™stochowa, to which miraculous powers are attributed, is Jasna Góra's most precious treasure.
Getting there: Train from Krakow Glowny station to Tichy - 85 km, 2 hours - 30 PLN/return
Opening hours: Monday 14:00-18:00, Tuesday 10:00-14:00, Wednesday 12:00-18:00,
Thursday 10:00-18:00, Friday 10:00-20:00, Saturday 10:00-17:00
Free entrance with beer tasting.
Getting there: local bus from the train station
Duration: 1-1,5 hours
The Tyskie Brewery has been on the market for over 600 years, and it shares its rich tradition and experience with all visitors. Here you will see the unique blend of ritual and modernity, its huge fermentation tanks, and then through its grounds to the Brewing Museum, where history is captured in the form of ornamental beer bottles, mugs and fancy beer barrels. After this trip through history, you will be treated to the unforgettable experience of tasting fresh beer in the Tyskie Pub.
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