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03 July 2012 • Travel time: with 02 June 2012 on 07 June 2012
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The Mał opolska Voivodeship has been beckoning me since childhood with its imperious hand. I have been waiting for 30 long years to finally, armed with a backpack and emotions, taking my wife and daughter as partners, go to the long-awaited meeting. The distance was not close, the air corridors helped out, in which the airline for the wealthy segments of the UIA unconditionally hosted. Since I was not on the list of the wealthy for 2012, it was with great relief that I used Wizz Air. Since the question of this whole trip was the eternal “how much does it cost to build a house”, we decided to save on everything so that the trip would not become a bone in the throat and the Mariana Trench in the family budget. Along the way, I wanted to refute the popular belief that they go abroad, those who have already resolved issues with living space and acquired a 4-wheeled voracious friend. .

For greater confidence and self-affirmation, I registered with the Wizz Air club.


Which immediately allowed me to save 100 hryvnias on a ticket. So our whole company of 3 people tickets cost 3300 hryvnia round trip. I could have kept an additional 500 hryvnia if I made the reservation on the appointed day when this wonderful company announces a 20 percent discount.

The flight was to Pryzowitz airport, the one near Katowice, which is near Krakow. In fact, everything is very simple. This is not the central airport of Krakow (like all of Wizz Air), but located 130 kilometers from it. The distance from the runway can be overcome by means of a transfer from Wizz Air for 13 euros per nose or by Matuzsek, which asked to chip in just a dozen.

The opachevalny was searched for on booking. com and were pleasantly surprised by the non-European prices for everyday services. After comparing prices with the hero city of Lviv, Lviv dropped out of the race after only 5 minutes of the first half.

Silvio's Home Appartment was chosen for 3 different qualities.

For the price, for the great location (10 minutes from the Old Town) and for the Appartment. Continental breakfasts, of course, favor the figure, but homemade coffee with fresh muffins in the family circle looks more attractive. The owner himself turned out to be an excellent fellow and, despite his absence, provided us with everything in the apartment to the smallest needs: from Wi-Fi to rolls of toilet paper and garbage bags. But let's start in order.

Zhulyansky airport met us with a fresh look of glazed facades and tiled floors. Toilets, escalators and interior decoration - everything was pleasantly pleasing to the eye. The convenience of the location, the simplicity of the internal structure gave him a head start in comparison with the mastodon from Boryspil. Having checked in with a young lady for our plane, we went through all the controls in 10 minutes and settled down to wait for landing in soft chairs on the 2nd floor.


It was interesting for me to see how passengers with priority boarding would be filtered from everyone else and how the crush promised by the Internet for empty seats would be carried out in practice. The filter, of course, was rather weak and those who acquired the right to be the first. They were forced to literally seep through the motionless holders of cheaper tickets, frozen by silent indignation and their own envy. As a result, when boarding the plane, priority citizens were given a 3-minute head start, after which other doors of the bus were opened and the "mob" moved to trample on the slow-moving moneybags.

There were enough seats for everyone (which is not surprising), but the landing was much faster than on planes of non-low-cost airlines.

Literally 10 minutes later we were already in the air. A couple of hours flew by, during which they offered to purchase juices, waters and perfumes.

For my daughter, I smuggled a couple of sweets through the security, so we did not waste money on the planes.

Katowice turned out to be as small as our Zhulyany, but working tirelessly, accepting a lot of low-cost airlines. But the Polish border guards were in no hurry to go anywhere, and we made our way through the protective cordons of Polish hospitality only after more than an hour. By the way, I was immediately happy for my wife, who never received a Polish multi-visa. The idea was through the Khmelnytsky intermediary Griand-voyage-tour to organize the Polish Schengen for the female staff of my tour group by invitation. The work of the company is rubbish, nothing was discovered, and, as it turned out, thank God. Polish border guards caught such multivisers with a bang and stopped every third one, escorting him with things, so to speak, to the exit.

Since we had a Spanish visa, the border guard typed something for a long time with one finger on the computer, after which, without asking a single question, he slapped us to enter. Hooray! Freedom!

The driver of the mini-bus with the inscription Matuszek, who was already bored, greeted us joyfully and asked for our names and suggested not to delay loading on board. I was very worried if they would wait, but that's the beauty of online booking. Wait until the last customer. The weather was rather suspicious and the thought that all my wife's summer outfits and swimwear might not fit here got into my head.


In 1.5 hours we got to the Krakow bus station. I looked for a long time on the Internet for the final position of the transfer and our monastery, but I did not find the given location. Fortunately, the driver noticed my confusion and threw me on the ball to the combat position, which, as it turned out after, was about 15 minutes away.

We liked the apartment.

It is so successful to make a layout in a room no more than 20 square meters. meters to turn it into an apartment - you need to be able to do this. True, ceilings of 3.5 m each helped here. So the beds were on the 2nd floor. The apartment had a gas boiler for water and heating, as well as a washing machine and a dishwasher. So to speak, everything for happiness.

Krakow was amazing. Cobbled streets, alluring cafes on every corner, old buildings along with countless churches created the charm and taste of the 18th century. I wanted to walk here, love, and just live. A significant advantage of Krakow was its accessibility, competing with price loads with our Ukrainian towns, but offering much more.

There are a lot of impressions, there is a lot of information, and the desire to return here once again clouds the mind with pacifying calmness.

But in order not to juggle a mix of everyday adventures and emotions in front of you, I will concentrate on details and details.

Deserves a rating of 5 and even despite that. That sometimes I had to stray in search of the right cafe. Prices that really bite were found only in a couple of establishments, and I guess that one was for what. It happened that we sat on the very square of the Golovny Market in the forefront and got off after that with not very significant sums. But, in order.

Cyklop, pizzeria, ul. Mikolajska 16

It is located on the north side of the Small Market. Seeing the sign, you need to go a little to the patio. Good Italian cuisine with moderate prices, a wonderful hall and an open garden. Pizza 14-25, pasta 16-20, salads 14-18 zł . Coffee and beer from PLN 6. Fast and pleasant service. Ideal place for lunch.

Morena, restauracja, ul. Stolarska 13

Located south of the Small Market, not far from the Dominican Church. Great place with excellent cuisine.


Specializes in dishes with buckwheat (! ), dumplings and meat dishes. At first it may seem that the choice is limited, but it is not. Everything is delicious. The portions are large and the prices are between PLN 15-18 per plate. Beer, coffee from 7 PLN. Great place for evening gatherings. Very stylish and pleasant (which is not always the same) design.

Gospoda Koko, ul. Golebia 8

Near the student mecca of the Yagel University. Ala-home cooking with the same home environment. Lunch costs PLN 14, which includes a first and meat course with salad and a side dish. Mostly students eat here and I can’t vouch for the quality of the food. Pretty unassuming looking. As my grandmother would say - hearty! Manual menu in the style of "not like everyone else. " It has its own charm for student gatherings.

Service comes automatically from the kitchen, so if you fall out of the clip, you risk being left unserved.

Our daughter got the dish, don’t stop with potatoes, but they didn’t even cook with that one! The conveyor went on, leaving a 5-year-old child starving.

I liked only some cottage cheese casseroles with jam. Everything else requires refinement by the hands of the master.

Chlopskie Jadlo, ul. Grodzka 9

Full fashion. Polish-Ukrainian charms - pancakes, borscht, dumplings, snacks, kvass. National cuisine, in a national room with cheerful Hutsul songs. Good option, but the dishes are quite greasy. Ideal for lovers of Polish cuisine, so to speak first hand. Real yadlo: ). Different prices. But still at the level of 15-18 zł per dish. Sweets are cheaper. Beer, kvass from PLN 6.

Jama Michalika, ul. Florianska 45

Great cafe with a wide selection of cakes and ice cream. A cafe was called a pit a long time ago, apparently due to the fact that there are no windows there. The decor and atmosphere inside is extremely chic and aristocratic.

Here you can have some fun with your camera by taking a couple of portrait shots with a great background. Prices are not low. Coffee from 10, cakes 10-15 zł . But it's definitely worth going once. It is located not far from the Florian tower. Next to the easily visible McDonalds.

Pod Sloncem, Rynek Glowny 43


Not a bad cafe with an excellent summer terrace, located right on the Main Square, along with other twin brothers, differing only in the color of the tablecloths on the tables. Successfully decorated salads, light snacks, but we did not load ourselves with serious chops. What you need for an evening dinner with a view of the St. Mary's Church and the Sukonnitsa. Comfortable chairs and warm blankets are included in the price in the evening. Salads 15-18, cheese slices PLN 20. Beer 7-9 zł.

Kuchnya and Dorothy, ul. Augustianska 4

We ended up in the second cafe of this group of establishments that had just opened. Both are located in the Kazemiezh area. We stumbled upon this while heading to Wolnitsa Square to the ethnographic museum.

Home cooking, without pretensions and frills, but a lot and satisfying. Soups of the day for 5 PLN, meat, chicken, buckwheat, rice, potatoes, no alcohol. If you are tired of creative dishes, then eating homemade pancakes with pancakes will be what you need. An institution in the spirit of an improved dining room. Extremely popular among locals at lunchtime, there are almost no empty seats. No pressure and no credit cards. He did his job, washed his hands and went on his way.

Akropolis, ul. Grodzka, 9

It is located near the Main Square towards Wawel. Promised Greek food, atmosphere and all but only saw a narrow hallway with a few tables and shawarma service from 2 nimble Arabs. You can take a hamburger, pizza, shawarma, take it out to refuel on the go. Not impressed, so we didn't go.

Rozowy Slon, ul. Straszewskiego 24

Real student cafeteria.

We arrived a little later than lunch (well, we didn’t have time to dine with these sights on schedule), there were 2 people crippled. Pretty basic conditions at low prices. In the spirit of a cafe with unpretentious names "Zharyu-paryu" and "Koshevarnya 44". If I were alone, I would have eaten, but somehow I didn’t feel like it with my family. Maybe if only there were people. The prices are very friendly. 3.4, 5 zł for everything.

Chimera, ul. Sw Annie 3

The dog knows her. The poster says that all cafes in some kind of awards and merits. In the spirit of "The best in cooking using the technique of cutting salads with cubes": ). I think the restaurant is really interesting with a set of unusual, exotic dishes, but in terms of price, it was clearly out of my circle of interests. It is located in the lower left corner of the Main Square.

Pauza, ul. Florianska 18/3 (second floor)


Complete trash! It is about such places that they say cozy! Really not an ordinary place, converted from an antique apartment. Located on the 2nd floor.

Huge selection, very reasonable prices, so you can not be afraid to land in any place you like. The overall impression of the food is 5+. Even in my native places, I did not get such pleasure. Just be vigilant and don't pass it on - there are still many walks around the neighborhood ahead.

Menus are on display everywhere, so you don’t have to do a special search, but if you stumble upon the establishments described, then come in. Hope you don't regret it. In general, one evening we ended up in a tavern with a capacity of 10.5 people, obviously converted from a 2-tier communal apartment. While my wife and I were examining interesting theater screens and looking through the grate-shop to the first floor, my daughter skillfully operated on a Singer typewriter, drinking apple juice in between. So good luck in your search and new experiences.

Yes, I almost forgot.

Although we didn’t manage to go hang out, because of the busy schedule, and not the desire to introduce the child to loud music and smoky scenes. Right next to the square there is a good, according to reviews, funk bar Harris Piano Jazz Bar, pl. Rynek Golowny 28. Every day something happens there in the summer. Sometimes the entrance is free, and so 10-20 zł . Good luck, I'm sure something worthwhile is going on there. Jazz, funk, blues, electro, or both.

After the Ukrainian realities - transport Krakow plunges into a stupor. German punctuality and the quality of transport are pleasantly surprising. Travel here, of course, is more expensive than at home, but it's worth it. The cheapest 15-minute ticket costs 2 PLN. There are also 1 journey, 60 minutes, round trip, day, two, etc. If you plan to travel, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with this list in advance. Since you won’t save much on tickets for 1 trip.


Transport is needed only if you are going to go really far, you hate walking, or if you, like the postman Pechkin, already have a bicycle. We went only 3 times: to Wieliczka, to the Water Park and just to ride for 15 minutes. Tickets are bought from vending machines at bus stops and on very few buses, but not on trams. So don't jump lightly into transport, as most likely you will find only a machine for composting an already purchased ticket and sometimes a controller there. At the stops, the machines are equipped with an understandable menu and give change. On buses, you can still buy a ticket from the driver, but it will be more expensive and without any discounts.

A ticket for 15 minutes costs 2 zlotys, for 1 journey 3.20, you can buy a 2-way ticket for 6. But to the Agglomeration, that is, the district, for example, to Wieliczka, a ticket costs 3.40. Sometimes you come across controllers who will need to explain something in Polish for a very long time why you have the wrong ticket.

For children 50% discount. Tickets are called Corner. By the way, there you can fill several tickets at once, and then pay for 3 at once, for example. Just after choosing a ticket, click next and the costs will be summed up. This is the only option for buses that do not give change to cars. You pop 3.5, knock out 3.4, and then catch all your pennies back in your palms ...and you won’t do anything to him!

At the stops there are all the timetables and electronic scoreboards for the tram. After a couple of trips, you will forever part with the habit of asking someone about something, as everything is very informative and conveniently presented on the stands!

By the way, you can still buy tickets in the stalls of the Polish Soyuzpechat!

We first fished out the route numbers we needed from the map, and then just looked at the timetable at the stops.

Only here I understood why people still go to Poland for clothes.

Absolutely everything is located in this hypermarket on 3 floors, including Carrefour, which we have loved since Dubai, and the Saturn equipment store, the prices in which correspond to the level of prices for equipment in our online stores.

Products are also cheaper here. We bought excellent Italian coffee, spaghetti and cold meats at completely reasonable prices. When I brought home a sausage for 24 hryvnias per kilogram (which the saleswoman recommended to me after my impotent context in Polish), I thought that the cats near the entrance would eat up this sausage. An, no. My daughter said that she had never eaten such a delicious sausage in her incomplete 6 years.

Attractions


Of course, like any professional foreign tourist, I had a plan. Where, what and when to see. Upon arrival at the place, it had to be specifically retouched and I consider it my first mistake to avoid routes away from the tourist office.

Now I always swore at the first opportunity to take by storm the first stall with an info service that came across. There you can always get updated data, useful maps and update your version of the data downloaded from the Internet. So don't repeat my mistakes. Prepare at home, check with tour offices and enjoy the culture of the hosts!

In the course of the description, I will follow the so-called Royal Road, which allows you to see everything at once. I will make a reservation, I did not manage to move along such a route due to backlogs in the ranks of my special detachment, which did not prevent me from overcoming one of the sections of this path every day. I will describe in sequence, and not in chronology, since our first point was Wawel. That is, start from the end, not from the beginning. (Like everything else in women! )

Grunwald battle monument – ​ ​ pl. Matejki

The Battle of Grunwald thundered here 500 years ago, and the monument is still here.

Interesting exposition with Lithuanian and Teutonic machos. The monument with King Yagelo on horseback will be the starting point of our route. Painfully conveniently located it and the area surrounding it. It is a 5-minute walk from the bus or railway station. Yes, and strategically, we will attack the city, like many of its "friends" who have been trying to do this for 10 centuries now. Especially for which they built the Barbican and a moat 6 meters deep and city walls up to 3 meters thick.

On the map of the Gallery of Krakowska, the square is circled in blue, and our shelter at Silvio Home’s Appartment is circled in green. Next, we will use the second map, as well as the names in English for reference, we will take directly from it.

Let's focus on the area. We're looking at the Barbican. Behind him is King Yagelo with Prince Witold.


To the left and to the right of us, the Planty go around - green light cities that form a wide, almost continuous ring, torn only near Wawel itself, in the southernmost part of our route. The march will be from north to south, so keep an eye on the "left-right".

I do not pretend to be a guide here. There will be an opportunity - buy one of them in Krakow. As a preparation, I recommend printing a free edition from Nikolai Kalashnikov on the Krakow website. ru. The information is there. of course, 10 years ago, but with the age of Krakow more than 1000 years old, this will not hurt you. The difference is mainly in prices and changing locations of some cafes. So for the theoretical foundations there.

A monumental building, one of the only ones of its kind in Europe. Together with the Florian Tower and the surviving fortifications, it forms one museum complex. For 14 PLN we bought a 2+1 family ticket to visit this complex.

On the map you can see some marked places of interest that I won't mention. I just don't have much to say about them in addition to any guidebook. But they are subject to independent inspection. Yes, and be careful with Mondays. Often, museum workers decide to quit their jobs and sit behind closed doors.

Lord's Transfigurati on Church

A chic church in the French style in the Rococo style was left without our attention. We took a couple of good pictures against its background, but we were not allowed inside because of the service. I note that, to be honest, we visited not so many local churches from the inside. There are really a lot of them here, like handicrafts at a fair, but they interested us so much from a purely tourist point of view, and my daughter was not happy with the transitions from church to church.

But, next to it, in 3 steps, there is the Czartoryski Museum, rich in a collection of works of art, exhibits, weapons known throughout Europe. By the way, there is also a work by Leonardo da Vinci, a variation in the spirit of the Lady with a Dog, but with a more aristocratic sound "Lady with an Ermine".


During our visit, the museum was closed for reconstruction and we criticized the da Vinci painting while standing in the Wawel Castle as a temporary shelter for the painting. By the way, critical reviews were mostly flattering.

Florianska Street

Together with Grodskaya Street, they form a central avenue, which is definitely worth walking along if there is not much time - you will immediately see 80% of the sights.

On the left side you will see the house-museum of Jan Matejko. Not far from the mecca of the sweet tooth "Yama Michalik". Jan Matejko, as they say man and ship. The most eminent artist and honorary citizen of Krakow. His drawings are really good.

He was especially successful with historical canvases from the history of Poland. He also became famous for the fact that he was the author of the painting of St. Mary's Church, where he worked completely free of charge. The museum has 4 floors and many halls. Don't forget the audio guide. It will be much more interesting with him. Tickets PLN 8 and 4 and audio guide PLN 4 or 5.

In addition to paintings, you will see a collection of weapons, memorabilia and decoration of living rooms.

From Florianskaya Street we get to the Main Square, or rather to its edge, where St. Mary's Church is located.

St. Mary's Church

It is, of course, one of those sights to see and die. This is the main shrine of Krakow. He is already dark. But the last version that we see now was laid down in 1290, it seems. Every hour, a trumpeter's melody is heard from the tower of the Church, which is played on all four sides.

To climb to the 54-meter height and personally thank the trumpeter, you need to wait until Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday and, having taught your breath with 239 steps, fly up to the top to have a nice conversation with heralds and also look out the window at the beauties of Krakow.

From the side of the square, the entrance is strictly for worshipers. And for people like us there, the sign is inscribed, they say, do not go in. For tourists there is an entrance a little further. From the side of St. Mary's Square, where for 5/3 zlotys you will be allowed to join the shrine, as well as appreciate the serious 12-meter-high altar.

Rynek Glowny


Striking at first sight. As soon as I saw this square, I immediately wanted to change my residence permit so as not to part with it. The area measuring 200 by 200 m, along with Piazza San Marco in Venice, is considered the largest in Europe. It is especially full of attractions and museums. Although you can just sit on it with a cup of coffee and have fun dreaming.

On weekends, it comes alive and allows you to melt into the surroundings of walking mimes and clowns, souvenir sellers, numerous visitors and luxurious horse-drawn carriages that make regular trips to the surrounding area.

By the way, unable to withstand the onslaught of my daughter, we still took a ride in a luxurious carriage. The price is 40-50 PLN. Depends on the carrier. We got it for 40. It can be seen that an experienced citizen, but his partner clearly looked like a drunkard. And another carriage was parked nearby with such an elegant cab in a black and white suit that you immediately start looking for 10 differences. But everyone liked the trip, and at the end the Polish men took their daughter to their place and we took some funny pictures. The horses, however, smell a little, and so that they do not litter on the roads, an experienced partner substituted a voluminous net in time. They must be getting fined for doing something like this on the roads.

On the square, you can visit the Cloth Hall (shopping malls), the City Hall, the Underground Market Museum, the Church of St. Wojciech, appoint an arrow under the monument to Adam Mickiewicz, or you can just get drunk on beer in any of the 100 cafes located around the square.

Church of St. Wojciech.

A completely unremarkable building that makes it difficult to take gorgeous pictures on the square. This is one of the oldest churches in Krakow, which is why it stands so differently from Feng Shui, along with the rest of the later buildings. There is a very small chapel inside, where they offer for 60-80 zlotys to listen to the performance of classical violin parts by young prodigies. You can also go to the museum, which is, as it were, underground, thanks to the gradual rise of the main square to new heights. The museum is not big, but quite informative, telling about the history of the Main Square. It is interesting to see at what level the area was in different centuries.


Here is a multimedia room offering a virtual tour of the development of the Cloth Hall over the past 130 years. All this sounds interesting, and since we still didn’t get there, but I spotted for myself the entrance to this event for the next time. If you go from the granite Mickiewicz to the arch in the center of the Torgovy Rows, then the entrance to the museum will be on the right. There, on the right, a little further is the entrance to the Underground Market Museum, and where to buy tickets you will be prompted right there.

A visit to Sukkenica will cost you PLN 12/6, plus PLN 5 for the audio guide. In general, 5 zł is the standard price here for an audio guide, and not 4-5 euros as in Barcelona, ​ ​ for example. At the entrance of the tour you will visit the upper terrace, which you can go to without a tour for 2 zł.

underground market

This is a museum exposition located 4 meters deeper than the malls. 4 thousand sq. m of the multimedia exhibition "Following the Traces of Krakow's European Identity".

Pictures of a medieval place with computer monitors look quite attractive. So we decided that next time we will definitely part with 17 zł from the nose and do not even skimp on the audio guide.

Collegium Maius

After the square, we will take to the right along St. Ani Street, so that optionally lit up in the church of this very Ani, we will see the oldest building of the Yagel University, which is already over 700 years old. The inner courtyard is very original and is free to visit all daylight hours. Liked the security guard. We got there already closer to dusk and unobtrusively taking pictures, accidentally stumbled on the 2nd floor for gatherings of significant people of the university. So there were no screams and tantrums. We ourselves realized that the banquet was not for us and slipped away along the wall.

During working hours, a museum is open here, where for 12/6 zlotys you will be shown not Kuz'kin's mother, but an internal gallery with library funds, astronomical instruments and unique collections. Nobody wanted to demonstrate all this to us at 8 o'clock in the evening.

Ulica Grodzka


The main boulevard that allows you to reach the main attractions of Franciscan Church, Basilica of Holy Trinity, Church of St. Peter and Paul and St. Andrew Church. The names are given from the map for better orientation. All of them have their own history and are worthy of attention. But the Saami are impressive - this is, of course, the Church of St. Peter and Paul, the entrance to which is guarded by sculptures of 12 apostles, copies of figures from the 12th century. Now the cathedral belongs to the Yagel University.

Further, turning onto Kanonicza street, (in one of the houses of which Karol Wojtla himself lived when he was the vicar of the Krakow hierarchy), on the way to Wawel you can visit the Museum Palace of E. Ciolek and the Archdiocesan Museum.

The first one is a branch of the National Museum in Krakow and will offer you 2 exhibitions for 12/6 zł : “Antique art of Poland in the 12th-13th centuries” and “Ecclesiastical art of the Commonwealth”. The names are promising, and the guides do not skimp on flattery.

Another museum for 5/3 zł is ready to display collections of several hundred gifts and personal items of Archbishop Karol Wojtył a.

Unfortunately, we didn't make it here. Therefore, we do not have copyrights to write with a marker on the walls "here was ... ". Both museums got number 3 and 4 in my collection "What I forgot to do in Krakow" after fraternizing with firefighters on the tower of St. Mary's Church and paying for lunch at the "Invito pizza & pasta" restaurant.

Address: Wawel, 5

How to get there: Kanonicza street goes straight to it, you can also go along Grodzka street.

Price: from PLN 3 to 25 per nose, depending on the exhibition.

A huge castle on a hill that strikes no less than the Moscow Kremlin.

The Royal Castle, which served as the coronation site of Polish kings for more than 400 years, is now a huge museum complex with more than 10 sightseeing objects. The castle is really amazing both from the outside and from the inside, but to meet it you need to prepare a little.


Despite the fact that I scrolled through the official website and could easily find the main entrance at the foot of the castle, after entering the territory I was forced to get a little confused. Only complete self-control did not allow me to burst into tears nervously, after the question of my wife: “Where are we going? ” At the entrance, on the right, some kind of ticket office was visible with a massive queue, but apparently they were buying tickets there, those who already knew what they wanted or who took the tickets, and then they will figure out who to show them to. The first nervous attempt to break through at least somewhere was adequately beaten off by costumed guards on the outskirts of the Cathedral.

I had to retreat and regroup in a small souvenir shop, licking my wounds and brewing with a plan. Here it was clear that a guide was needed, or at least a pointer, where to start and where to end. The guide at hand eloquently filled in about the charms of the castle collections and the delightfulness of the cathedral decoration, but he did not reveal where the Start line was. And only pamphlets mechanically collected along the way shed light on the situation.

So that you do not have such embarrassment, I will orient myself on the ground.

Having climbed the main road to the castle and caught up with the resilient Tedeusz Kosciuszko, I boldly ignore the ticket offices, dive into the courtyard.

For convenience, look at the plan slightly squinting your eyes and leaning back in your chair, then you definitely won’t have any questions, and a slight nod of your head with a satisfied face expressing the completed “understood” will accompany you all 5 minutes of further reading.

So, according to the plan, we enter from the left, through Brama Herbawa. To your left is the Cathedral, a private temple of the royal family, and to your right is the ticket office for it. Entrance to the cathedral itself on Sunday was free, but not during the service. There are usually a lot of people, but it will still be possible to consider something. To visit the cathedral museum, the royal tombs and look at the largest bell in Poland - the Sigismund bell, you need to pay in zlotys. After enjoying the cathedral, we move on.

If you go straight, you will lose money! Or rather, spend it on wonderful cakes and coffee drinks. Coffee and sweets there for 6-8 zł.

-) Sandomere tower - where my daughter and I were looking for a princess. Bo’s daughter said that “each tower has its own princess, ” otherwise why were they built at all. From the top platform you get especially attractive photos of Wawel, and even Krakow itself.


-) The Dragon Cave is the last attraction, the exit from which leads to the foot of the castle from the Vistula side. Approaching the cave, do not dare to stand in line. There are only onlookers who buy tickets from an apparatus that looks like it sells tickets for transport. After going through the dungeon and sympathizing with the unlucky dragon, which the apprentice of Prince Krak defeated by cunning, you will come to the sculptural image of the dragon itself. Which regularly spits out a bright flame during working hours from its burned throat, delighting children and especially impressionable parents.

Continuing with the flow of the crowd on the weekends, we will find a fun fair on the banks of the Vistula with children's attractions, craft shops, light snacks and other entertainment. Approaching the river itself, you can ride one of several pleasure boats playfully carrying tourists along the river expanses for an hour for 25/15 zlotys or especially stingy ones for 15/12 zlotys, but half an hour.

The same way you can come to one of the picturesque districts of the city of Kazimierz. Until 1800 it was separate

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Флорианская с утра
Бронзовый загар
Страсть по бижутерии
Мы с Мариацким
Адам в сумерках
За проезд
Марья рукодельница
Костел Святых Петра и Павла без зонта
На улицах Кракова пахло весельем
В западне Барбакана
В Яме от Михалика
Пойдем на площадь!
К Cyclope за пиццей
Свет и вода
Ягельский университет изнутри
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