Krakow and region in 1 week
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Discovery.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté.
Petit Futé
Where to stay ?
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Detail of the stay : Krakow and region in 1 week
How to get there
Discovery of the historical centre of Krakow
Steps: Cracovie
Enjoy this city with a tour of Planty Park and/or a horse-drawn carriage ride. Discover the historic old town: Barbican, the St Florian Gate, the market square (Rynek), the cloth market (craft market), the belfry of the old town hall, the main shopping streets, the many churches. Take one or more of the marked paths in the historic city (the droga królewska, for example, the royal road, which leads from Barbacane to Wawel Hill). Walk along the Vistula River.
Places of interest : PORTE FLORIAN ET ANCIENS REMPARTS HALLE AUX DRAPS (SUKIENNICE) WAWEL
Visit to Krakow
Steps: Cracovie
Visit Notre-Dame Basilica (on the Rynek) and witness the opening of its altarpiece and then climb into its highest tower to listen to the Hejnal. Lunch in a bar mleczny, a former communist canteen. Walk up and down Wawel Hill: the royal castle, the cathedral, its crypt and tower. Go to a hostel in Zakopane for dinner in the evening.
Places of interest : CHÂTEAU ROYAL DE WAWEL WAWEL
The Tatras and Zakopane
Take a hike in the Tatras. For example, Mount Giewont and its cross at 1 909 m above sea level offering beautiful walks, beautiful landscapes and a beautiful view or one of the many roads marked at the beginning of Mount Kasprowy Wierch, connected to the plain by a cable car. At the end of the afternoon, discover the city centre of Zakopane, its wooden houses, its very lively main artery (Kominiarski), which leads to its handicraft market. Dine again in a hostel in Zakopane, because you will never tire of it because you could not taste everything the day before...
On the way from Zakopane to Krakow
Try rafting down the Dunajec gorges. Visit the medieval castle of Niedzica and/or the wooden church of Debno (inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List).
Wieliczka Salt Mines/ Kazimierz District
Steps: Cracovie
Go down to the salt mines of Wieliczka (inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List). Back in Krakow, you will learn at the ethnographic museum. Visit Kazimierz, the former Jewish quarter of Krakow, to discover synagogues. Spend the evening in Kazimierz enjoying Jewish cuisine to the sound of klezmer music.
Places of interest : MUSÉE ETHNOGRAPHIQUE
Around Krakow
Steps: Cracovie
By tramway, discover Nowa Huta, this industrial district, a communist dream all in concrete. By train, visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp (inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List). By car, in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, immerse yourself in the middle of the forest in a cultural landscape of great beauty and spiritual importance. Almost unchanged since the 17th century, it remains a place of pilgrimage to this day. By boat, enjoy the "cruise" on the Vistula: from Wawel to Tyniec Monastery.
Places of interest : WAWEL
