Hidden Kraków
Synagogues, hidden courtyards, a late zapiekanka at Plac Nowy and the bars locals actually pick.
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Kazimierz was for centuries the heart of Jewish life in Kraków. Today the old synagogues stand next to cafés, galleries and some of the city’s best bars, and the district comes alive at night.
I plan your evening in an order that makes sense: the history on Szeroka Street first, then dinner, a drink in a courtyard and the famous open sandwich from the round market hall.
Most close in the late afternoon and on Saturdays, so I put them just before dinner and leave the evening for food, music and drinks.
A whole town built after the war as a communist ideal. Wide avenues, a church its people built themselves, lunch in a milk bar.
A prehistoric mound with the whole city at your feet, and an abandoned quarry around the corner.
Chapels, lakes and chandeliers carved out of salt, deep under the ground. Or put on a helmet for the miners’ route.
