KRAKOW, POLAND TRAVEL GUIDE: How to spend 3 Days in Kraków: Pierogis, Jewish Quarter & Auschwitz

12 places in this vlog

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1. 3:14

   Main Market Square (Rynek Główny)

   🏢 Landmark · Stare Miasto

   Very busy and touristy; good for people-watching and gorgeous at sunset.

2. 3:24

   St. Mary's Basilica

   ⛩️ Temple · Stare Miasto · brief mention

3. 3:30

   Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)

   🛒 Market · Stare Miasto · brief mention

4. 3:49

   Wawel Royal Castle

   🏰 Palace · Wawel

   The grounds are worth walking even without buying tickets for the interiors.

5. 4:34

   Plac Nowy

   🍜 Street food · Kazimierz

6. 4:49

   Kazimierz

   🏘️ Neighborhood · Kazimierz

   Has a former synagogue that is now a bookstore stocked with Polish and Jewish history books.

7. 5:21

   Ghetto Heroes Square (Plac Bohaterów Getta)

   🏛️ Historic site · Podgórze

8. 5:32

   St. Joseph's Church

   ⛩️ Temple · Podgórze · brief mention

9. 5:44

   Father Bernatek Footbridge (Kładka Ojca Bernatka)

   🏢 Landmark · Kazimierz

   A nice route for an evening walk back into the city.

10. 6:13

    Mamma Mia

    🍴 Restaurant · Stare Miasto

    The salmon pasta and the carbonara both got top marks.

11. 6:23

    Auschwitz-Birkenau

    🚆 Day trip · Oświęcim

    A personal guide is recommended, and so is good footwear for the much larger Birkenau camp.

12. 8:38

    Wawel Dragon Statue

    🏢 Landmark · Wawel · brief mention