What you see

Rynek Główny, Wawel Castle, and the Kazimierz quarter (the most precisely KrakówPoland single Rynek Główny 200m × 200m largest medieval market Europe Cloth Hall Sukiennice 1300 CE rebuilt 1555 CE arcaded Renaissance ground floor tourist souvenir market upper floor National Museum Polish 19th century paintings Mariacki Church Saint Mary Basilica 14th century CE twin towers 81m 69m asymmetric hejnał St Mary’s bugle call played every hour four directions stop mid-note legend Mongol archer 1241 CE killed bugler mid-note call Wieża Ratuszowa Town Hall Tower 70m 1383 CE only surviving piece demolished town hall 1820 CE Wawel Royal Castle complex Wawel Hill 25m above Vistula 1038 CE founded Italian architects Bartolommeo Berrecci 1507 1548 CE Sigismund I Renaissance courtyard finest Renaissance Poland Sigismund Chapel 1519 1533 CE Jacob Burckhardt finest Renaissance funerary chapel outside Italy golden dome Wawel Cathedral 1320 1364 CE Sigismund Bell Zygmunt 1521 CE largest bell Poland 11 tonnes rung major national holidays national mourning Smolensk 2010 CE plane crash bells Bernaś Bell Jadwiga Bell Casimir Bell all Wawel National State Museum Wawel state rooms tapestries Jagiellonian Arras tapestries 137 Brussels 16th century CE Wawel Crown Treasury Dragon’s Cave beneath Wawel Kazimierz former Jewish city 1495 1939 CE Schindler’s List filming 1993 CE Spielberg Oskar Schindler Enamel Factory museum UNESCO heritage: the Schindler’s Factory Museum and Kazimierz (the WWII historical quarter): the Kazimierz quarter (originally a separate royal city founded by King Casimir the Great in 1335 CE to accommodate the Jewish population expelled from Kraków in 1495 CE) was the heart of Kraków’s Jewish community until the Holocaust (1939-1945 CE); at the start of WWII, approximately 65,000 Jews lived in the Kraków area; by 1945 CE, approximately 2,000-3,000 remained alive; the Schindler’s Factory Museum (the actual Oskar Schindler Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik; Lipowa 4; the factory where Schindler employed 1,200 Jewish workers (Schindlerjuden), saving them from the death camps; the interactive museum covers the German occupation of Kraków and the persecution of the Jewish and Polish populations; the most visited museum in Kraków)) — the most precisely KrakówPoland single Rynek Główny 200m × 200m Cloth Hall Sukiennice 1300 CE 1555 CE Mariacki Church 14th century CE 81m 69m asymmetric hejnał hourly Wawel Castle 1038 CE Berrecci 1507 1548 CE Sigismund I courtyard finest Renaissance Poland Sigismund Chapel 1519 1533 CE Burckhardt finest outside Italy golden dome Wawel Cathedral 1320 1364 CE Sigismund Bell 1521 CE 11 tonnes 137 Brussels tapestries 16th century CE Kazimierz 1495 CE expelled 1495 1939 CE Jewish 65000 Jews 1939 CE 2000 3000 survived Schindler Factory Museum Lipowa 4 1200 Schindlerjuden saved UNESCO heritage in any UNESCO world heritage site)).