Krakow sightseeing: Old Town, Kazimierz (Jewish District) and Schindler's Factory at Podgorze

The route begins at your hotel/place of stay in Krakow. The tour finishes either at the Main Square or at begins at your hotel/place of stay in Krakow.

Old Town
You will see monuments: Market Square, the Cloth Hall, St. Mary's Church, Slowacki Theatre, the Old City Walls, St. Florian's Gate, Czartoryskis' Museum, Bishops' Palace and the Pope's window, Grodzka Street - the historical route of the Polish kings, the baroque Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Romanesque church of St. Andrew from 12th Century, Wawel Royal Castle.

By the Royal Route and Stradom Street we will get you to the former Jewish district of Kazimierz.

Kazimierz (Jewish District)
You will admire there: former City Hall and the Museum of Ethnography, Wolnica Square, Corpus Christi Church, Tempel Synagogue, Kupa Synagogue, Isaac Synagogue, New Square, Szeroka Street, Remuh synagogue, the Old Synagogue and Popper Synagogue.

Schindler's Factory
It was founded by the Jews in 1937, and since 1938 located in the building at Lipowa 4. In 1939 the new factory owner Oskar Schindler - an industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party - shocked by the mass extermination of the Jewish people, created the famous Schindler's List, which allowed to transport to a new factory in the Sudetenland more than 1,100 people saving their lives.
Schindler's story, retold by Holocaust survivor Poldek Pfefferberg, was the basis for Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark (the novel was published in America as Schindler's List), which was adapted into the 1993 movie Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg.

Duration: 1,5 hours
Availability: 7 days a week
Languages: Polish, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish.
Bookings: via the reservation form on our website and by phone (+ 48 660 904 391; + 48 513 514 331).

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