▲▲▲ Main Market Square Stunning heart of Kraków and a people magnet any time of day.
▲▲▲ Schindler's Factory Museum Historic building where Oskar Schindler saved more than 1,000 Jewish workers, now filled with engaging exhibit about Kraków's WWII experience.
▲▲ Planty Once a moat, now a scenic park encircling the city.
▲▲ St. Mary's Church Landmark church with extraordinary wood-carved Gothic altarpiece.
▲▲ Cloth Hall Fourteenth-century market hall with 21st-century souvenirs.
▲▲ St. Francis' Basilica Lovely Gothic church with some of Poland's best Art Nouveau.
▲▲ Wawel Cathedral Poland's splendid national church, with tons of tombs, a crypt, and a climbable tower.
▲▲ Wawel Castle Grounds Historic hilltop with views, castle, cathedral, courtyard with chakras, and a passel of museums.
▲▲ Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art Worthwhile collection of paintings by should-be-famous artists, upstairs in the Cloth Hall.
▲▲ Wyspiański Museum Art by the talented leader of the Młoda Polska (Polish Art Nouveau) movement.
▲▲ Old Jewish Cemetery Poignant burial site in Kazimierz, with graves from 1552 to 1800.
▲▲ Rynek Underground Museum Super-modern exhibit on medieval Kraków filling excavated cellars beneath the Main Market Square.
▲ Czartoryski Museum Varied collection, with European paintings and Polish armor, handicrafts, and decorative arts.
▲ Jagiellonian University Museum: Collegium Maius Proud collection of historic university, surrounding a tranquil courtyard where medieval professors lived.
▲ New Jewish Cemetery Graveyard with tombs from after 1800, partly restored after Nazi desecration.
▲ Ethnographic Museum Traditional rural Polish life on display.
▲ Pharmacy Under the Eagle Small Podgórze exhibit about the Holocaust in Kraków, including three evocative historic films.
▲ Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków Today's thought-provoking art, displayed in renovated old warehouses behind Schindler's Factory Museum.