Udforsk Kraków

The Main Market Square is the central square of Kraków's Old Town, laid out in 1257 after the Mongol raid and covering about 3.8 hectares. The Renaissance Cloth Hall stands in its middle, flanked by the Town Hall Tower, the small Church of St. Adalbert and the Adam Mickiewicz Monument, with St. Mary's Basilica and townhouses around the edges.

The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is a brick Gothic church of the Conventual Franciscans on All Saints Square in Kraków's Old Town, consecrated in 1249 and enlarged in the 15th century. Inside are Art Nouveau stained-glass windows and wall paintings by Stanisław Wyspiański, including the window "God the Father – Let It Be" above the entrance.

St. Florian's Gate is a square Gothic tower gate from around 1300, the only one of Kraków's original old-town gates that still stands. It links Floriańska Street with the Barbican, and the royal coronation route once passed through it. A stretch of the medieval city wall and its towers survives on either side.

The KL Plaszow Memorial Site covers the grounds of the German Nazi camp in Kraków's Podgórze, built in 1942 on two Jewish cemeteries; about 35,000 prisoners, most of them Jews, passed through it until 1945. Visitors walk the marked camp roads past an outdoor exhibition, the Grey House and Witold Cęckiewicz's 1964 monument to the victims.

The Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Łagiewniki is a Roman Catholic shrine that holds the relics of Saint Faustina Kowalska. Beside the 19th-century convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy stands an elliptical basilica built from 1999 to 2002; its 77-metre tower, reached by lift or 315 steps, has a viewing platform at 46 metres.