Self-guided walking tour

Kraków Walking Tour: Medieval Kraków – Market, Walls and Royal Road (about 3.5 hours, 9 stops)

9 stops in walking order through Kraków, from Bazylika Świętego Floriana to Brama Rzeźnicza w Krakowie: 2.0 km on foot, about 24 min of walking, 3 h 15 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Medieval Kraków: Market, Walls and Royal Road”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.

Total
3 h 15 min
Distance
2.0 km
Walking
24 min
Stops
9

The stops, in walking order

  1. Bazylika Świętego Floriana

    A Roman Catholic parish and university collegiate church in Kleparz, at the start of Kraków’s Royal Road.

    4 min walk · 360 m

  2. Brama Floriańska

    Kraków’s preserved medieval gateway and a major landmark of the Old Town.

    2 min walk · 180 m

  3. Floriańska

    A three-hundred-and-thirty-five-metre Old Town street connecting Kraków’s Main Market Square and St. Florian’s Gate.

    3 min walk · 250 m

  4. Kościół pw. Świętego Marka

    Church of St. Mark is a Gothic Roman Catholic church at the corner of Świętego Marka and Sławkowska Streets in Kraków’s Old Town.

    5 min walk · 380 m

  5. Wieża Ratuszowa

    Kraków’s seventy-metre Town Hall Tower, the sole remnant of the old town hall demolished in 1820.

    1 min walk · 100 m

  6. Rynek Główny

    Kraków’s historic Main Market Square, laid out in 1257 as a centre of trade.

    1 min walk · 80 m

  7. Rynek Podziemny

    Kraków’s underground archaeological museum beneath the Main Market Square.

    3 min walk · 290 m

  8. Mały Rynek

    A compact rectangular square behind St Mary’s Basilica, created as a supporting market for Kraków’s Main Market Square.

    4 min walk · 330 m

  9. Brama Rzeźnicza w Krakowie

    Brama Rzeźnicza is Kraków’s oldest surviving medieval city gate, first recorded in 1289 and now embedded in a convent façade beside Planty.

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The route line, 2.0 km, drawn from the tour’s routed walking path.

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