• Kraków, Poland
    Wawel Castle

Kraków

Kraków is easily Poland's best destination: a beautiful, old-fashioned city buzzing with enjoyable sights, tourists, and college students, and some heavy history (nearby lies the Holocaust memorial and museum of Auschwitz). Even though the country's capital moved from here to Warsaw 400 years ago, Kraków remains Poland's cultural and intellectual center. Bustling university life, thought-provoking museums, breathtaking churches, great restaurants, sprawling parks, and vivid Jewish heritage sights round out the city's appeal. Of all of the eastern European cities laying claim to the boast "the next Prague," Kraków is for real.

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