Self-guided walking tour
Kraków Walking Tour: Wawel – Kings, Cathedrals and Legends (2 hours, 9 stops)
9 stops in walking order through Kraków, from Bazylika archikatedralna Świętych Stanisława i Wacława to Smok Wawelski: 1.3 km on foot, about 16 min of walking, 2 h 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 “Wawel: Kings, Cathedrals and Legends”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.
- Total
- 2 h
- Distance
- 1.3 km
- Walking
- 16 min
- Stops
- 9
The stops, in walking order
Bazylika archikatedralna Świętych Stanisława i Wacława
Wawel Cathedral is a nearly 1,000-year-old church within the Wawel Castle complex and the historic coronation place of Polish monarchs.
3 min walk · 280 m
Wieża Duńska
One of four residential towers at Wawel Royal Castle, beside the eastern wing.
2 min walk · 200 m
Skarbiec Koronny
The Crown Treasury at Wawel Royal Castle displays surviving objects associated with Poland’s ruling dynasties.
3 min walk · 220 m
Zamek Wawel
Wawel Castle is Kraków’s fortified royal residence on Wawel Hill above the Vistula.
2 min walk · 170 m
Krypta Wieszczów Narodowych na Wawelu
The National Bards’ Crypt lies beneath Wawel Cathedral and contains the graves of Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, Romantic poets honoured as national spiritual leaders during Poland’s partitions.
Next door, under a minute on foot
Krypta św. Leonarda
St Leonard’s Crypt beneath Wawel Cathedral is a Romanesque remnant of the Hermanowska Cathedral, built around the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
1 min walk · 60 m
Brama Wazów
Wawel Hill’s oldest surviving entrance gate, built in fifteen ninety-one for King Sigismund the Third Vasa on the site of a Gothic predecessor.
1 min walk · 40 m
Brama Herbowa
An entrance gate to Wawel Hill, created by Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz and distinguished by heraldic emblems representing Polish, Lithuanian, Ruthenian, and fief territories.
4 min walk · 320 m
Smok Wawelski
Bronisław Chromy’s six-metre bronze dragon beside the Dragon’s Den at the base of Wawel Hill.
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