Kraków

Kazimierz: the jewish district of Kraków

Synagoga Tempel

- built in 1862

first time in a synagogue

Plac Nowy (The New Square)

the marketplace

creative tables of a café in Kazimierz :)

a bookshop

 Synagoga Remuh 

- built in 1557

Cmentarz Remuh (Remuh Cemetery)

- a jewish cemetery dating back to 1535

Stare Miasto: Kraków Old Town

Teatr Słowackiego (Slowacki Theatre)

Barbakan

- built in 1499

Brama Floriańska (The Florianska Gate)

Kościół Mariacki (St. Mary's Basilica)

- built between 1287-1320

- stands 80m tall

old town streets

Kościół Dominikanów Świętej Trójcy

(Dominican Church of the Holy Trinity) 

- a gothic church for the Dominicans of Kraków

- built in the 13th century 

Kościół Świętych Apostołów Piotra i Pawła

(The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul)

- a baroque church built between 1596-1619 

Kościół Świętego Andrzeja (The Church of Saint Andrew)

- built in romanesque style between 1079-1098

Wawel: the hill where polish royalty once lived

 

Wawel Castle

- a gothic castle built in the 14th century

Wawel Cathedral

- first built in romanesque style (1058-1079) and then destroyed

- reconstructed in the 12th century 

- destroyed again by a fire in 1305

- reconstructed again but this time in gothic style (1320-1364)

view of the city from the castle

and the view on the opposite side

Wisła (Vistula) River

My impressions of life in Kraków:

 

"Be careful THIEF!" (bus ticket machine)

Zapiekanka: a low-cost polish fast food (popular in Kraków)

- it's a crispy baguette with cheese, mushroom and meat on it

Zapiekanka Monster

vegetarian Zapiekanka

Omertà Pub

- a bar with the godfather theme and 60 kinds of beer

- omertà: the mafia code of silence (silenzio) in Sicilia

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"