Cracow
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Discovery.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté.
Petit Futé
Where to stay ?
The map of your stay "Cracow"
Detail of the stay : Cracow
How to get there
The Jews of Krakow
Steps: Cracovie
Morning: it all starts in the old town, near Jagiellonian University. This is where the very first Jews lived, before they were driven out. After a detour to Szczepanski Square, where many Jews still lived in the Middle Ages, and then to the Grand Place, a quarter of which was reserved for Jewish merchants, towards Kazimierz. On Szeroka Street are the old synagogue and the Remu synagogue, named after a famous rabbi who officiated there. Both are open to visitors, and provide an opportunity to learn more about the history of Krakow's Jews and their tragic destiny.
Lunch: many restaurants, including Ariel, Rubinstein and Hamsa, offer quality Jewish cuisine.
Afternoon: walk through the charming narrow streets of Ciemna or Kupa. Nowy Square and its central rotunda are about a hundred metres as the crow flies. There is a fresh produce market on weekdays and a flea market on weekends. Have a coffee in Singer, named after the Jewish founder of the famous sewing machines.
Dinner: choose one of the restaurants already mentioned, or the Dawno Temu Na Kazimierzu with its unique atmosphere. Hopefully, you'll even get a little concert of klezmer music.Places of interest : RUE SZEROKA (ULICA SZEROKA) PLACE NOWY (PLAC NOWY) VIEILLE SYNAGOGUE (STARA SYNAGOGA) SYNAGOGUE ET CIMETIÈRE REMUH
Podgorze district and Schindler factory
Steps: Cracovie
Morning: direction Podgorze district, south of the Vistula, where about 15,000 Jews were transferred from Krakow in 1941. The visit is poignant, so much the unthinkable has happened here, on these cobblestones now full of blood. We can see the facades of the Jewish hospital and orphanage on Jozefinska Street. You can also walk around the heroes' square and visit the . pharmacie de l'aigleIt was held by a Pole who remained voluntarily in the heart of the ghetto.
Lunch: at ZaKladka, in a Parisian bistro setting, with renowned French cuisine. And have a little black one right next door, at Rekawka, a lovely pocket coffee, where coffee is roasted the old-fashioned way.
Afternoon: the visit to Jewish Krakow continues with the Oskar Schindler factory, transformed into an exciting museum on the history of the city under Nazi occupation.
Dinner: at the Industrial restaurant & bar, just next to the factory, to recover from your emotions. Modern decoration, all with bay windows, open kitchen and art gallery. The humanity found again.Places of interest : LE GHETTO USINE D'OSCAR SCHINDLER PHARMACIE DE L'AIGLE (APTEKA POD ORŁEM) PLACE DES HÉROS DU GHETTO
