Art & culture
A sloping wooden market town that inspired painters, next to a UNESCO pilgrimage park in the hills.
Lanckorona’s market square tilts down the hill, lined with old wooden houses and quiet cafés. Artists have come here for a century for the light and the calm.
Next door, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is a 17th-century landscape of chapels and paths built as a copy of Jerusalem, now a UNESCO site. Together they make a slow, beautiful half day.
Not at all. It is a beautiful landscape walk with baroque architecture, and the quiet is worth the trip on its own.
A farming village where the women paint flowers on everything: houses, wells, barns and even the dog kennel.
A 15th-century larch church, built without a single nail and painted inside like a jewellery box.
Under the Old Town lies a maze of brick cellars, and in some of them very good jazz plays late into the night.
