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Popular Best Things to Do in Krakow [2025]
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Wawel Royal Castle-State Art Collection
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42 reviews
4.8
Based on 10,851 reviews
1.4 km from downtown
Phone +48124225155
Address: Wawel 5, 31-001 Kraków, Poland
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-3 hours
Highlights:
Explore Wawel Dragon's mysterious cave
Discover Wawel Dragon's legendary tale
31% positive reviews
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The Wawel Royal Castle (Zamek Królewski na Wawelu) is a castle residency. It's located in centre of Kraków, Poland. The castle, is one of the largest in Poland and represents nearly all architectural styles of medieval, renaissance and baroque periods.What is interesting, Wawel is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the world. 5/5
The Wawel castle, being one of the largest in Poland, represents nearly all European architectural styles of medieval, renaissance and baroque periods.
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Krakow's Rynek Glowny Central Square
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78 reviews
4.7
Based on 27,044 reviews
662m from downtown
Phone +48126161886
Address: Rynek Główny, 31-422 Kraków, Poland
Recommended sightseeing time: 1 hour
Highlights:
Street theater & folk art festival
Gothic towers & fabric hall plaza
32% positive reviews
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fell in love with this town beautiful. great atmosphere, lots of green around the City
The central square in the old town of Krakow, Little Poland, is one of the largest medieval town squares in Europe. The central square is surrounded by historic buildings. The center of the square is dominated by the fabric hall, and the side of the fabric hall is the city hall tower. On the other side is the 10th century St. Adams Church, and on the north side of the square is the Gothic tower of St. Mary's Cathedral.
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Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory
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4 reviews
4.4
From TWD 874
2.3 km from downtown
Phone +48122570096
Address: Lipowa 4, 30-702 Kraków, Poland
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-3 hours
Highlights:
Admire Schindler's portrait and historical illustrations
Look up at the inscription and feel the spirit of saving lives
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A humbling visit to this landmark. A reminder that during bad times, there are decent people
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Oskar Schindler was a German enterpreneur and a member of the Nazi party, NSDAP. He is credited with saving approximately 1100 Jews by employing them in his factories (so that they could avoid horrible living conditions and eventually death in the Nazi labor camps) – one of them located in Krakow, in the area of today’s Zabłocie district.
Originally various enamelware objects were produced in the Schindler's factory; later on Schindler decided to also produce mess kits and ammunition shells for the Germans as he wanted to make sure that the factory would be regarded as an essential part of the war effort.
Encouraged by his Jewish accountant to use Jews for labor, Schindler wound up sheltering an increasing number of Jewish workers as the Nazis forced them out of their jobs and into ghettos and, ultimately, forced labor camps.
His story became well-known to the public thanks to the popular Steven Spielberg's movie, Schindler's list (1993), where Schindler was portrayed by Liam Neeson.
I was in particularly intrigued by the display of Schindler's factory office, including his hulking wooden desk and creaking wood floors. This room also includes a display called "Survivors' Ark," a mountain of thousands of pieces of enameled pots of the type once manufactured in the factory, enclosed in a towering glass case.
That Schindler was transformed from calculating businessman to humanitarian is amazing, and his acts of heroism in a time of brutality should not be diminished. Still, I did not find a visit to this museum an uplifting experience. There simply is too much sadness encased here, and in juxtaposition to the millions of Jews and others who were dehumanized and exterminated by the Nazis, the 1100 lives saved by Schindler seem mere grains of sand on a vast beach.
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