What to see in Kraków

The oldest building of the Jagiellonian University, with a Gothic courtyard and a chiming clock.

The busiest street in the Old Town, running from the Florian Gate to the Main Square.

The main square of the wartime ghetto in Podgórze, now a memorial of seventy empty chairs.

The stretch of the Royal Route from the square to Wawel, older than the chartered city itself.

The Salwator market square, laid out on filled-in fish ponds and still trading.

A villa district below the Kościuszko Mound, an independent commune until 1910.

The former enamelware works on Lipowa Street, now a museum of Kraków under occupation.

The Pauline church with the Crypt of the Distinguished, tied to the killing of Bishop Stanislaus.

The Gothic church on the Main Square, with the Veit Stoss altarpiece and the hourly bugle call.

The heart of Jewish Kazimierz, in practice a long square lined with synagogues.

A circular fort outside the Florian Gate, one of only three left in Europe.

The heart of Nowa Huta, the point from which the district’s avenues radiate.

A Renaissance trading hall in the middle of the square, doing the same job for seven centuries.

The main entrance to medieval Kraków and the start of the Royal Route.

A Gothic church on Grodzka with stained glass and wall painting by Stanisław Wyspiański.

A mound raised by the people of Kraków to their national hero, ringed by an Austrian fort.

The oldest and most puzzling of Kraków’s mounds, with the best view over the city.

The church in Bieńczyce, won by residents of a town designed without one.

The largest medieval square in Europe and the point where most tours of Kraków begin.

The ring of parkland around the Old Town, laid out where the city walls once stood.

A museum four metres below the Main Square, built into the archaeological excavation.

The royal castle and coronation cathedral on a limestone rock above the Vistula.