Medieval Kraków: Market, Walls and Royal Road

The stops, in walking order

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   Stop 1: Bazylika Świętego Floriana

   ~15 min here

   Before you is Bazylika Świętego Floriana, a Roman Catholic parish church and university collegiate church in Kleparz.

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   Stop 2: Brama Floriańska

   ~3 min here

   Brama Floriańska is Kraków’s surviving medieval city gate, a Gothic stone tower that once belonged to the fortifications around the Old Town.

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   Stop 3: Floriańska

   ~3 min here

   Floriańska is Kraków’s historic street linking the Main Market Square with St. Florian’s Gate, a route only three hundred and thirty-five metres long but packed with centuries of city life.

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   Stop 4: Kościół pw. Świętego Marka

   ~15 min here

   At the corner of Świętego Marka and Sławkowska Streets rises the Church of St. Mark, a historic Roman Catholic church in Kraków’s Old Town.

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   Stop 5: Wieża Ratuszowa

   ~1 hr here

   Wieża Ratuszowa is the seventy-metre Town Hall Tower rising from Kraków’s Main Market Square.

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   Stop 6: Rynek Główny

   ~3 min here

   Rynek Główny is Kraków’s historic Main Market Square, first set out in 1257 as the city’s commercial heart.

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   Stop 7: Rynek Podziemny

   ~1 hr here

   Rynek Podziemny is Kraków’s archaeological museum beneath the eastern part of the Main Market Square.

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   Stop 8: Mały Rynek

   ~3 min here

   Mały Rynek is the small rectangular market square behind St Mary’s Basilica, created east of the Main Market Square as Kraków’s supporting marketplace.

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   Stop 9: Brama Rzeźnicza w Krakowie

   ~3 min here

   What appears in the convent façade facing Planty is Brama Rzeźnicza, the blocked-up Butchers’ Gate: Kraków’s oldest surviving medieval city gate, first recorded in 1289.

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