Eleven stops without leaving Poland's most famous square: why the trumpet call breaks off, who carved the altarpiece and ended up branded, how a bronze poet came home, and how much truth there is in the knife, the Tatar rider and Kościuszko's oath.
The Main Market Square looks like a postcard, but every corner holds a better story than the postcard. You'll hear where the arrow that cuts the trumpet call short comes from (a novel from 1928), the life of the sculptor who carved St Mary's altarpiece, the monument the occupiers tore down that turned up in Hamburg, the nativity scenes that copy these towers, the knife in the Cloth Hall, the tower that lost its town hall, the Lajkonik, the oath of 1794, the duke who knelt here in 1525 and the oldest church, which is older than the square. Legend and fact, always kept apart. Everything can be heard from the square; going inside is optional.
An outline of the walk. The full stories are in the app.
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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.
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.
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.
Kings came through this gate to be crowned.
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Every route includes Spanish and British English. The English version is adapted for English-speaking travellers, rather than translated word for word.
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