Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camps

This is a sobering sight for visiting tourists, but harrowing and essential for any visit to Krakow. You can catch a bus for a 90-minute journey to the former Nazi concentration camp, where millions of Jews were exterminated during the Second World War. Most travel agents organise day excursions to the camp. The Museum is about 2 km from the train station Oświęcim, and can be reached from there by local buses.

• Web:

  www.auschwitz.org/en

• E-mail:

  reservation.office@auschwitz.org

• Address:

  Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim

• Phone:

  +48 338 448 099

Botanical Garden

This is the oldest botanical garden in Poland, having been in operation since 1783. Here, you will find several greenhouse complexes, a tropical greenhouse with approximately 50 species of palms and a museum.

• Web:

  ogrod.uj.edu.pl/english

• E-mail:

  hortus@uj.edu.pl

• Address:

  Kopernika Street 27, Krakow

• Phone:

  +48 12 421 26 20

Church of St Adalbert

Church of St Adalbert, also known as the Church of St Wojciech, is located to the side of the Main Market Square in Old Town, and is one of the oldest stone churches in Poland. Its almost thousand-year old history goes back to the beginning of the Polish Romanesque architecture of the early Middle Ages.

• Address:

  Kościół Świętego Wojciecha, Plac Mariacki, Krakow

• Phone:

  +48 12 422 83 52

Czartoryski Museum

The Czartoryski Museum houses a vast collection of ancient works of art from Greece and Egypt, but the key artworks here have to be Leonardo Da Vinci’s "Lady with an Ermine” and Rembrandt’s “Landscape with the Good Samaritan”.

• Web:

  krakow.wiki/czartoryski-museum

• E-mail:

  biuro@fundacja-czartoryskich.krakow.pl

• Address:

  Fundacja XX. Czartoryskich, Krakow

• Phone:

  +48 12 422 61 37

• Opening hours:

  Thu–Sun 10am–6pm, Mon closed

Jagiellonian University & Collegium Maius

Founded in 1364, this is one of the oldest universities in Europe, and it can boast names like Nicolaus Copernicus and Pope John Paul II among its alumni. To learn more about the history and campus life, you can take a guided tour. The building is centrally located, close to the Main Market Square.

• Web:

  en.uj.edu.pl/en

• Address:

  Gołębia 24, Krakow

• Phone:

  +48 12 422 10 33

Kazimierz

Kazimierz is the old Jewish district where the city’s Jewish population have lived for over 500 years. It is an ideal place to experience some of Krakow’s Jewish culture and history. You will also find a range of cafes and restaurants, along with many museums, synagogues and cemeteries.

• Address:

  Kazimierz, Krakow