Start beside the fire-breathing dragon and climb to the hill of the kings: who really killed the monster (it depends on the century), the historian who got into the cave through the roof, a coal barge carrying Poland's treasure, the bell that takes twelve ringers to move, and the tourist of 1936 who came back as master of the castle.
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. From the river you follow the legend of Wanda, a barge that in 1939 carried the king's tapestries away down the Vistula, and the chronicler who put the dragon in the cave. On the way up the slope, a wall signed by thousands of donors who paid for the castle's restoration day by day, and the stones that were torn out in 1953. Up on the hill: Ice Age bones at the cathedral door, the Sigismund Bell, a coffin moved by night, an Italian courtyard bricked up by a barracks, the "energy" stone the castle called superstition, and Hans Frank, who had visited Wawel as a tourist. Interiors optional; the hill has opening hours.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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