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1. Wawel Royal Castle

Royal castle and museumWawel Hill

The hilltop residence of Polish kings beside the Vistula, now a museum of state rooms, royal apartments, the Crown Treasury and seasonal gardens.

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2. Wawel Cathedral

Gothic cathedral and royal necropolisWawel Hill

Poland's coronation church on Wawel Hill, consecrated in 1364, with the gilded Sigismund Chapel, royal tombs, poets' crypts and the giant Sigismund Bell.

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3. St Mary’s Basilica

Gothic basilicaOld Town

The twin-towered brick Gothic church on the Main Market Square, home of Veit Stoss's carved altarpiece and the hourly hejnał trumpet call.

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4. Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)

Historic market hall and art galleryOld Town

The long Renaissance trading hall in the middle of the Main Market Square, with souvenir stalls below and the National Museum's 19th-century Polish art gallery upstairs.

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5. Rynek Underground

Underground archaeology museumOld Town

A multimedia museum beneath the Main Market Square where glass walkways run over excavated medieval streets, workshops and trading stalls of early Kraków.

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6. Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory

History museumZabłocie

The Zabłocie factory once run by Oskar Schindler, now a Museum of Kraków exhibition on life in the city under German occupation from 1939 to 1945.

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7. Czartoryski Museum

Art museumOld Town

The Old Town museum of the Princes Czartoryski collection, home to Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine and a Rembrandt landscape, reopened in 2019.

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8. Collegium Maius

University museum in a Gothic collegeOld Town

The oldest building of the Jagiellonian University, a late-Gothic college around an arcaded courtyard that now houses the university museum and its historic instruments.

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9. Old Synagogue

Synagogue and Jewish history museumKazimierz

The oldest standing synagogue building in Poland, a fortified Gothic and Renaissance hall on Szeroka Street that houses the Museum of Kraków's Jewish history exhibition.

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10. Kraków Barbican

Medieval fortificationOld Town

A round brick Gothic outwork built around 1498 to guard the northern approach to the Old Town, now a Museum of Kraków branch on the city's fortifications.

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