How long has each legend been told, and what lies behind it?
4 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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Kraków's legends offer a way into the city through familiar tales and fresh questions. When did a story appear, how does it relate to a place, and which versions have lasted? This theme keeps the pleasure of hearing about dragons and mysteries while making the distinction between legend and history clear throughout the walk.
In “Wawel and the Dragon”: 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.
In “Kazimierz, the Jewish 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.
In “Krakow's Main Market Square”: 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.
Choose from 4 independent walks in Kraków. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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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.
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.
On to the window of the Bishops' Palace, the basilica painted by a twenty-six-year-old Wyspiański, the stained glass the cathedral turned down, and the fire of 1850 that took half the quarter with it.
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.
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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