Medieval Kraków on Foot

The stops, in walking order

1. 1

   

   Stop 1: Baszta Ciesielska

   ~3 min here

   Baszta Ciesielska is one of only three Kraków wall towers to survive intact.

2. 2

   

   Stop 2: Baszta Stolarska

   ~3 min here

   Baszta Stolarska is the Carpenters’ Tower: a surviving defensive tower built into Kraków’s old city walls.

3. 3

   

   Stop 3: 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.

4. 4

   

   Stop 4: Baszta Pasamoników

   ~3 min here

   Baszta Pasamoników is the rounded brick tower rising from a square stone base beside Kraków’s former city walls.

5. 5

   

   Stop 5: 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.

6. 6

   

   Stop 6: 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.

7. 7

   

   Stop 7: 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.

8. 8

   

   Stop 8: Kościół pw. Świętego Wojciecha Biskupa i Męczennika

   ~15 min here

   At the meeting of Kraków’s Main Market Square and Grodzka Street, this is the Church of Saint Wojciech, a Roman Catholic church named for the missionary and martyr Wojciech Sławnikowic.

9. 9

   

   Stop 9: Planty

   ~3 min here

   Planty is the green park ring around Kraków’s Old Town, laid out where the medieval city’s defensive system once stood.

10. 10

    

    Stop 10: Kościół pw. Świętego Andrzeja

    ~15 min here

    Church of Saint Andrew is the stout stone church on Grodzka Street, marked by the two towers rising from its façade.

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