Krakow city tours

Kraków City Tours.

This page helps you to make decision how to spend your precious time in Krakow. You have a list of tours below. See suggestions and decide.

My name is Anita.

Email to contact me: info@krakowtourguide.info

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1 option: Krakow 3 h. 

• Krakow’s Wawel Hill with Wawel Cathedral [ticket: 23 PLN]
• Wawel Royal Castle (from the courtyard)
• then Royal Route … Kanonicza str. the oldest one and Grodzka str. with buildings with monumental facades, historical and religious side of Kraków.
• Jagiellonian University, the oldest in Poland [from the yard]
• Main Market Square, Sunday meeting place for Krakow’s residents 🙂
• You need to see and listen to the bugler from the tower of st. Mary’s Basilica
• Mary’s Basilica hides magnificent Alta form Gothic time [entry ticket: 15 PLN]
• Cloth Hall – Sukiennice
• The Barbican fortification
• Defensive walls

2 option: Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków 2 h visit

Ranking of the 10 best monuments in Europe. Places that cannot be missed.
The British online bank Aqua has prepared a ranking of the 10 best monuments in Europe that you must see at least once in your life. Out of hundreds of places and historical sites, one from Poland made it to the list. It was the Wawel Castle in Krakow that enchanted the creators of the list.
The British company Aqua, operating in the banking industry, took on quite a challenge. Out of 600 monuments and attractions throughout Europe, it selected the ten best, i.e. those that you must see at least once in your life. When creating the list, the factors taken into account included location, value for money, and the historical and symbolic value of a given place.

• Castle I (rooms on the first floor of the castle, the Porcelain Cabinet, rooms with works of art from the Middle and Far East) . The visit should be booked in advanced. Visiting in groups of max. 10 persons. Reservation: 150 PLN. Tickets: 49 PLN per person.
• Castle II – second floor of the castle: State Rooms, Ottoman Turkish Tents and the temporary exhibitions: Long Live the King! Coronations of Saxon Wettin’s at Wawel, Masterpieces from the Lanckoroński Collection: A Second Look. Private or group visit. English-speaking guide:  350PLN. Other languages on request. Tickets: regular 49 PLN, reduced 37 PLN

3 option: around Main Market Square 3 h

• Jagiellonian University museum 1 h visit [entry ticket: 15 PLN per person]
• Painting of Leonardo da Vinci ‘Lady with Ermine’ is on a display of new open Czartoryski Museum. [entry ticket 65 PLN per person]
• Underground Museum of the Main Square 1,5 h [entry ticket 38 PLN per person]

4 option: Krakow visiting and Jewish Quarter

• Wawel Hill with Wawel Cathedral [*23 PLN]
• Wawel Castle ​from the courtyard
• Main Market Square (Rynek Główny in Kraków)
• st.Mary’s Basilica [*15 PLN]
• Cloth Hall – Sukiennice – National Gallery [*35 PLN]
• 2 stops by tram or nice walk to Kazimierz
• Szeroka Str. / Wide street with Remuh syn. and cemetery. Old Syn.
• Ritual Jewish slaughterhouse and typical Krakow’s Zapiekanki (sandwiches)
• Maybe something to refresh 😉 in Hevre ??? and “Oscar Schindler’s backyard”
• We can go further to Christian Kazimierz – if you want.
• *the price of entry tickets per person

5 option: Kraków with a few museums inside.

• Main Market Square (Rynek Główny in Kraków). The biggest Market Square in medieval Europe.
• st.Mary’s Basilica [*15 PLN]. The magnificent altarpiece of Veit Stoss of Nuremberg, who deeply regretted leaving Kraków
• Cloth Hall – Sukiennice – The oldest Shopping Mole and a Tax office in medieval Europe.
• National Gallery [*35 PLN]. Jan Matejko, a national painter. A Lilliputian height, almost “blind” but with a great spirit of national liberation, painted historical scenes of Poland on huge canvases.
• Czartoryski museum with a great painting of Leonardo da Vinci (YES! This da Vinci)
• 3D painting of Rembrandt (YES! this Rembrandt),  and the remains of the first king of Poland on display and a much more …..! The best museum in Poland!  (*ticket 65 PLN p.p)
• an additional chance for a good coffee in an architecturally stunning building!!!!
• Underground Museum It tells the story of the beginnings of the Market Square and the first Krakow merchants.

6 option: Tyniec – Benedictine Abbey

7 option: Krakow visiting: 4 squares, 3 districts and Vistula river.  4-5 h visit

Walking this route, you will see Krakow with all its most important monuments. Quite like a standard route, but… not exactly. We will go through different streets, generally not known to the tourists. You will discover “hidden” Krakow visiting its picturesque, charming corners, filled with quiet, cozy cafes. The walls and buildings which remember old times of richness and gold. You will hear stories from the past: political position of Poland in the world, Poles’ connection with the major houses in Europe, dark times of the occupation, independence and the II World War, communism and “V” – “Victory”, the symbol of Freedom. You will experience the history, and nothing will be left out. That’s our promise. And while meeting with the past, you will visit the most beautiful districts of Krakow: The Old Town, Jewish District Kazimierz and Podgorze – with the remnants of ghetto …  And after that, we will have a coffee by Vistula river and see the charming Bridge of the Lovers. Feel invited!

Advantages of the tour:

• 3 districts in one tour: the Old Town of Krakow.  Kazimierz district – its Jewish and Christian part.  Podgorze district – the former ghetto in Krakow.
• 4 squares of Krakow. The square is  the most important part of the city and a center of its life.
• The most important parts of Krakow on this tour.
• Interesting objects.
• You will experience Krakow as a city of many cultures.
• I strongly recommend Krakow visiting at late evening, especially during spring, summer and the beginning of autumn.
• And if you need to have a rest during the tour, do not worry – we will stop for a coffee brake at a place of your choice. The place which you like it.

The plan of the tour is as follows:

• Main Square: The Cloth Hall [Sukiennice] and St. Mary’s church [ticket 15 PLN]
• Jagiellonian University, Collegium Maius
• Wawel Hill with Castle and a Cathedral [ticket 23 PLN]
• Szeroka street – Remuh Synagogue with old Jewish cemetery [ticket 15 PLN], the Old Synagogue and more …
• New Square, called the Jewish Place.
• Joseph street and the yard from “The Schindler List”.
• Wolnica Square – the Christian part of Kazimierz.
• The Bridge of the Lovers and Vistula river.
• Coffee or lunch time … and then, we can go on … If you want 🙂

Additional tours:

• New re-Open Czartoryski museum with Leonardo da Vinci & Rembrandt paintings (65 PLN p.p)
• Underground Main Square. Duration 1 h; English-speaking guide: 350 PLN, tickets: 38 PLN/per person
• National Gallery XIX c. paintings in Cloth Hall.  “Nero’s Torches” by Henryk Siemiradzki is a painting that initiated the collection of the National Museum in Krakow. It is constantly exhibited in the Cloth Hall – the painter Henryk Siemiradzki – we owe the first object to him. It lies at the beginning of the National Museum in Krakow.National Gallery in Krakow – the beginning of the National Museum. The painting with the first inventory number is “Nero’s Torches” by Henryk Siemiradzki. The history of the National Museum in Krakow began with the work exhibited today in Sukiennice.In the autumn of 1879, the Cloth Hall celebrated the 50th anniversary of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s creative work. The famous painter and academician Henryk Siemiradzki came from Rome for this ceremony. “During the ceremonial ball, the artist announced that he had decided to donate his famous work “Nero’s Torches” to the city and his nation, with the intention of exhibiting it in the Cloth Hall.”Siemiradzki’s gesture inspired other artists to donate their works to the national institution. Today, the MNK collection consists of 1,184,299 objects, including numerous gifts, purchases, deposits and real estate, allowing for the opening of new branches.The first location was the Cloth Hall, work on the construction of the Main Building began in 1934, and on June 1, President Ignacy Mościcki laid the cornerstone. Interestingly, the foundation act was signed by the famous Polish writer Maria Konopnicka. Work continued until the outbreak of World War II. During the German occupation, the unfinished building served as a casino.At first, the museum was a treasury of memory. In the times of the Second Polish Republic, it supported the identity of the rebuilding state, and indicated the role of culture and art in the process of preserving this identity. In times of limited sovereignty, it was a place where one could oppose totalitarian ideology.Duration 1,5 h, English-speaking guide: 350 PLN,  tickets: 35 PLN. + cake & coffee break in Galery. Famous “Hellena Modrzejewska cake”

Ojców National Park, 20 km from Krakow city center.

Departure from Cracow, the trip consists: Będkowska Valley + Wierzchowska Cave + Prądnik Valley

• Guide service in Polish or English (licensed Jurrasic guide) ~~ 850 PLN 
• Other  languages  on  request  (different price).  To  book a tour in other languages contact me.
• Visiting Wierzchowska Cave with the internal English-speaking guide: 25/20 PLN/person (entrance tickets)
• Ojcow Castle (entrance tickets): 2/3 PLN/person.
• Transportation service paid extra.

Pradnik Valley (Ojcow National Park) The trip includes only the routes of The Ojcow National Park – it is a more comprehensive visit than one presented above.

• A walk from Krakowska Gate to Ojcow village, then bus ride to Pieskowa Skala.
• In Ojcow, you can visit one of the Jurassic caves.
• Lokietek Cave – the longest cave of The Ojcow National Park. According to the legend, it was a hiding place of king Wladyslaw Lokietek during the fights for a throne.
• Ciemna Cave (Dark Cave) – a place of many archeological discoveries. Both caves are interesting examples of karst formations, where you can see stalactites, stalagmites and other drippings formed in many different shapes.
• You can also visit former health resort hotel “Pod Lokietkiem” with its bio-geological exhibition about the geology and wildlife of the valley and the influence of man’s activity on this area. Besides that, we will also pass between Ojcow and Krakowska Gate, visit the ruins of Casimir Castle in Ojcow, see the St. Joseph Chapel “On water” and the castle in Pieskowa Skala.
  
• Duration of the trip: 6-7 hours.
• During all the trip you will be accompanied by a local Jurrasic English-speaking licensed guide.

• Guide service in Polish or English (licensed Jurrasic guide):  ~~ 850 PLN
  
• Other languages on request (different price). To book a tour in other languages, contact me.
• Visiting Lokietek Cave: 30/15 PLN/person (entrance tickets)
• Visiting Ciemna Cave: 30/15 PLN/person (entrance tickets)
• Ojcow Castle (entrance tickets): 2/3 PLN/person
• bio-geological exhibition: 20 PLN/person (booking in anticipation)
• Transportation service extra paid.