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Day Trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Wieliczka Salt Mine from Krakow including Lunch
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Full-day Tours
from RM 378.58 per adult
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Guided Tour from Krakow
1,121
Bus Tours
from RM 151.43 per adult
Oskar Schindler's Factory Museum Guided Tour in Krakow
133
Skip-the-Line Tours
from RM 77.99 per adult
Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial Guided Tour from Krakow
255
Bus Tours
from RM 161.53 per adult
The Kraków Vodka Tour
137
Walking Tours
from RM 227.40 per adult
Zakopane Tour with Hot Bath Pools and Hotel Pickup
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Cable Car Tours
from RM 381.05 per adult (price varies by group size)
Shooting Range Krakow - Package M
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Sports Lessons
from RM 243.30 per adult
Chopin Piano Concert at Chopin Gallery with a Glass of Wine
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Instrumental Concerts
from RM 103.58 per adult
Divine Mercy Sanctuary - Private Tour from Krakow
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Bus Tours
from RM 223.51 per adult (price varies by group size)
Krakow: Private Guided City Tour by Electric Car
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City Tours
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Top Attractions in Krakow

1. Krakow's Rynek Glowny Central Square

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Historic Walking Areas

Stare Miasto

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Open now

Admission tickets from MYR 90.89

The current Main Square started taking shape in 1257 and was designed in its current form with each side repeating a…

2. Kazmierz The Former Jewish District

Neighbourhoods • Historic Walking Areas

Kazimierz

This area is steeped with history & is largely unchanged since World War Two.

3. St Mary's Basilica

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Architectural Buildings

Stare Miasto

Admission tickets from MYR 22.74

This vast church houses (one of) the largest altarpieces in the world.

4. Stare Miasto

Neighbourhoods

Stare Miasto

Admission tickets from MYR 51.13

by michaelmZ4999YD

Kraków’s Stary Miasto is an unparalleled walk through centuries of Polish history.

5. Wawel Royal Castle

Historic Sites • Historic Walking Areas

Stare Miasto

This huge structure is prominently built atop Wawel hill and is complex in its many different buildings.

6. Lost Souls Alley

Speciality Museums

Stare Miasto

•

Open now

Its an escape room / haunted house hybrid with live actors.

7. HistoryLand

Science Museums • Children's Museums

Kleparz

This museum presents the most important chapters of Polish history through Lego models.

8. Wawel Cathedral

Historic Sites • Religious Sites

Stare Miasto

by 255100Traveler

This current Gothic cathedral, which is full to the brim of objects of art, from Gothic to Renaissance to Baroque to…

9. Muzeum Krakowa - Rynek Podziemny

Speciality Museums • Natural History Museums

Stare Miasto

•

Open now

Employing state-of-the-art computer and film technology showcasing what life was like in 12th Century Krakow - this…

10. Krakow Pinball Museum

Speciality Museums

Stradom

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Open now

About 50 working pinball machines from 1970s-1999 plus early electronic arcade games.

11. Polish Aviation Museum

Speciality Museums

Admission tickets from MYR 22.74

by Dov_Ben_Amram

This airfield, established by Austria-Hungary in 1912, is one of the oldest in the world.

12. Muzeum Krakowa, oddział Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera

Speciality Museums • Historic Sites

Open now

Admission tickets from MYR 8.86

The museum has amassed a wealth of material to document the era: photos, letters, daily household objects, audio-visual…

13. Krakil — Museum of illusions

Speciality Museums

Stare Miasto

Admission tickets from MYR 54.31

There are a lot of rooms with interactive activities and multiple floors of them!

14. The Ghetto Heroes Square

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Stare Podórze

by MontanaCraig

chairs, each representing 1,000 Krakow Jewish Ghetto inhabitants, is a solemn testament to one of thousands of Nazi…

15. Stained Glass Museum (Muzeum Witrazu)

Speciality Museums • Art Museums

Stare Miasto

Admission tickets from MYR 44.68

Based on the preserved original collection of old glass of hundreds of shades, new colorful masterpieces are being…

16. Sukiennice (Cloth Hall)

Historic Sites • Flea & Street Markets

Stare Miasto

Admission tickets from MYR 36.91

Fabric was, in fact, once traded in this massive building that now contains a covered market on the ground floor, with…

17. Planty Park

Historic Walking Areas

Stare Miasto

by LoveTwinsandTravel

historically, this is where the walls of the old town used to be - now the park is a meticulously maintained symbol…

18. MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow

Art Museums

A marvellous work consisted of 100 pairs of shoes that had been submerged in the Dead sea for a few weeks leading their…

19. Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius

Historic Sites • History Museums

Stare Miasto

The 40-minute tour of the original centuries-old university building was brought alive by sandal-wearing Justyn.

20. Father Bernatek Footbridge

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Bridges

Stare Podórze

The leaf shaped modern suspension bridge named Little Father Bernard's Footbridge or Lovers Bridge, opened 5 years ago…

21. Bazylika i Klasztor Franciszkanow

Religious Sites • Churches & Cathedrals

Stare Miasto

by TurnipTownsend

It is 501cm high x 275 wide &111 deep: a magnificent structure which combines elements of 12 Cracovian churches…

22. Kosciuszko's Mound (Kopiec Kosciuszki)

Lookouts • Monuments & Statues

by IntoTheNorth

This is a symbolic mound dedicated to Polish national hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko (he's not interred there - the body…

23. Ogród Zoologiczny w Krakowie

Zoos • Aquariums

Temporarily closed

The zoo is in the centre of and old forest, true escape from the bustling city.

24. Muzeum Krakowa - Apteka pod Orłem

Speciality Museums

Stare Podórze

by T-SGlobetrotters

The museum has recreated the layout of the original pharmacy on the actual site in four rooms.

25. Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks

Stare Miasto

History says that its predecessor was used to demonstrate the the world is round and spinning.

26. Muzeum Krakowa - Barbakan

Speciality Museums • Historic Sites

Stare Miasto

The barbican is one of the few remaining relics of the complex network of fortifications and defensive barriers that…

27. Sanctuary of Divine Mercy

Religious Sites

by 986franciscoa

The site of the building originally housed the monastery complex of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy (founded in 1862…

28. Zakrzowek

Bodies of Water

Blue lake, water appears to be blue as this lake formed in a limestone query.

29. National Museum

Art Museums

Czarna Wieś

Admission tickets from MYR 22.10

by 6_Speed_Automatic

Documents his work from film school thru the balance of his film career.

30. Krakow Arcade Museum

Speciality Museums

Open now

Admission tickets from MYR 49.21

So many classic games that I used to play as a kid.

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