Kraków in 1, 2 and 3 days: walking itineraries

Make time for the places you actually want to see.

Start with the plan that fits your trip. Below each itinerary, explore the linked walks and check their distances, stops and starting points.

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Itineraries with Podtour

1 day
Begin with Krakow's Main Market Square Free, then follow nearby streets with Copernicus's University and the Friars' Quarter. Leave some time for an interior around the square.
2 days
Day 1: follow the first plan. Day 2: From Grodzka to Kanonicza and Wawel and the Dragon, allowing an unhurried climb.
3 days
Days 1 and 2: follow the earlier plans. Day 3: Kazimierz, the Jewish Town and the Christian Town and From Jewish Kazimierz to the Podgórze Ghetto. They overlap near the beginning but tell different stories; take a break before crossing the river.

The walks in your plan

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Free walk

0.94 km · 11 stops · 43 min

Krakow's Main Market Square

The Main Market Square looks like a postcard, but every corner holds a better story than the postcard.

0.75 km · 13 stops · 41 min

You walk down from the square along Grodzka and Kanonicza, the Canons' Street, looking at the windows, past a stone lion that's been looking out over the street for centuries and a house the town council itself ended up buying.

1.61 km · 11 stops · 51 min

From Jewish Kazimierz to the Podgórze Ghetto

Begin beside the cemetery rebuilt with broken gravestones, on Szeroka Street, where Jewish life in Krakow revolved for centuries and where a festival brings it back every summer.

1.71 km · 12 stops · 57 min

Kazimierz, the Jewish Town and the Christian Town

Kazimierz was a town in its own right, with its own market square and town hall, and inside it, from the end of the fifteenth century, a Jewish town with its own wall and gates.

1.06 km · 11 stops · 47 min

Copernicus's University and the Friars' Quarter

Start at the professors' church and step into Poland's oldest university: the queen who paid for it after she'd died, Copernicus and his statues, and the manuscript the guides used to show off as the book of the sorcerer Twardowski.

1.19 km · 12 stops · 50 min

Wawel and the Dragon

Kraków's dragon changes its killer every few centuries: in the oldest version it's killed by Krak's sons, and the clever shoemaker only turns up late, at the end of the sixteenth century.

Kraków, before you go

The centre tempts you to keep walking from square to square. Mix stone streets with parks and a warm meal, leaving time to listen in neighbourhoods that deserve a quieter pace.

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Kraków in 1, 2 and 3 days: walking itineraries

Itineraries with Podtour

1 day

2 days

3 days

The walks in your plan

Krakow's Main Market Square

From Grodzka to Kanonicza

From Jewish Kazimierz to the Podgórze Ghetto

Kazimierz, the Jewish Town and the Christian Town

Copernicus's University and the Friars' Quarter

Wawel and the Dragon

Kraków, before you go

Your first city,on Podtour.

Your first city,on Podtour.

Your first city,
on Podtour.

Your first city,
on Podtour.