Event Detail

Price: 69 EUR
Date: 2016-09-23
Time: 09:00-15:00

See all the highlights of the Old Town area that made Cracow so famous.
* The spectacular Main Market Square with the Renaissance Cloth Hall – a perfect place to buy local souvenirs, the Town Hall Tower and St Mary\\\\\\\'s Basilica with unique wooden masterpiece of Veit Stoss.
* Don’t miss the buildings of Poland’s oldest university, Jagiellonian University, where Nicolaus Copernicus studied.
* In the extended variant the group will also explore Wawel Hill that is dominated by the Cathedral, the Castle and the defense towers.
* Wawel Cathedral used to be the scene of coronations and is the eternal resting place of the kings of Poland.

Wawel Castle is the most popular and the richest museum in Poland. In its 71 magnificent rooms with 7.040 sq. meters of floor space, several thousands of priceless works of art are on display. Through a tall vaulted gate we enter the Renaissance arcades of the castle courtyard. The most valuable of all the works of art in the Wawel collection are the Arras tapestries.
The Royal Armory with its collection of the standards and colours of the Teutonic Knights won in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 is also worth seeing. Wawel Cathedral used to be the scene of coronations and is the eternal resting place of the kings of Poland. Wawel hill is dominated by the Cathedral, the Castle and the defense towers. In the Sigismund Tower hangs the largest bell in Poland, called ZYGMUNT. The Renaissance Sigismund Chapel by the Cathedral, roofed with pure gold, is an absolutely unique architectural monument.

Just a short distance from the city center you can enter the maze of narrow streets of the former Jewish district Kazimierz and plunge into the culture of different world.
* In the past, Kazimierz was a distinct town with its own Market Square and Town Hall, as well as
thriving culture, which blossomed in the 16th century.
* Nowadays, Kazimierz with its authentic architecture and unique atmosphere was a setting of Steven Spielberg’s movie ”Schindler ’s List”.
* That period witnessed the foundation of Poland’s oldest Judaic shrine, the Old Synagogue, now with the exhibition that shows the history of the Jewish community of Cracow, and then the Remuh Synagogue with the adjoining cemetery.