Wieliczka Tours

Tourists traveling to Krakow should not forget about the surrounding tourist attractions. Already in a very short distance from the city, waiting for a lot of exciting, interesting and worth seeing places and sights. In the extent of agglomeration of Krakow there is Wieliczka. It is a charming, small city, which the vast majority associated only with very popular in Poland and around the world, historic salt mine in Wieliczka. Continue reading

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Best Krakow Tours – Krakow sightseeing

On the tourist and as well cultural map of Poland, Kraków is one of the more interesting points. During the trip to Poland you should stop here at least for few days and take one or more of urban Krakow Tours trials. Continue reading

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Zakopane Tours – From Krakow to Zakopane

One of the most attractive tourists resorts in Poland is of course Zakopane. This city is considered the winter capitol of Poland, but that does not means that in the summer Zakopane tours are not attractive and profitable.

Due to the fact, that the Tatra Mountains are small alpine mountains, they are extremely interesting area for both tourists, athletes or travel agencies which thanks to organization of various events can draw a very large income. Continue reading

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St Mary’s Church in Cracow, Poland

St Mary’s Tower is a part of St Mary’s Church. This is the only one of that kind in the world. From this tower for more than 600 years trumpeter plays the bugle-call into four cardinal points.

Tourists that come to Krakow and who want to see and hear the bugle-call need to defeat 239 stairs. For the trumpeter the road takes 2,5 minutes. Since always, people have blown the trumpets from towers and gates in Krakow. It was the signal that the city is open or close. During nights, behind the stone walls wanderers were waiting to hear the trumpet and to get into the city to sell their products. We don’t know and probably will never know how the bugle-call sounded before. Continue reading

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New Barge on Vistula River in Krakow, Poland

The new barge will moor to the bank of the Vistula River in Krakow soon. It is 40 meters long and inside you will find a restaurant, pub and a café. The restaurant would be on the lower deck and on the upper there will be a terrace and the orangery. Very original is the way of mooring the barge. It will be fixed on the special concrete columns and in case the water level will raise the barge will go up too, but without changing the position. Solutions like that one are cheap and proved useful for instance during the flood in Prague. Continue reading

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Krakow’s Old Town streets

In the XIV century Krakow had 42 named streets. The most often mentioned in documents are: Grodzka, Wiślna, Floriańska, Bracka and Sławkowska. Since the end of XIX century the names of the streets were invented spontaneously by the inhabitants of the city.

Bracka Street is the small, paved street that goes from the Main Square between the Wiślna and Grodzka streets in the direction of Franciszkańska Street. Floriańska Street is one of the most popular streets in the city. Here tourists will find shops, galleries, restaurants, hotels, pubs and clubs, so almost everything. That street is also the beginning of the Royal Route. Grodzka Street is the only one that dislocates the regular construction of the medieval main square. Continue reading

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Krakow – Kazimierz the charmed one

Old town of the Cracow is one of the most crowded, well known tourist areas of united Europe. It’s medieval layout and coming back from even XIV century building is valued by average tourists and historians of an art and architects. Tourism in this place is a become a part of the life and townscape. Recently it has a competitior. Kazimierz slowly becomes a cultural second hart of Cracow. It’s also important for it’s interesting and often tragic history. Continue reading

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