Art & culture
The home town of Pope John Paul II, his family museum, and the cream slice he loved as a boy.
Karol Wojtyła grew up in Wadowice, and the flat where his family lived is now a modern museum about his life. Even for non-religious visitors it is a well-told story of 20th-century Poland.
Afterwards you eat a kremówka on the square, the custard cream cake he once said he missed. It combines nicely with Lanckorona and Kalwaria.
Yes, entry is by timed ticket and groups fill it up. I book it and combine it with Lanckorona and Kalwaria in one easy day.
A farming village where the women paint flowers on everything: houses, wells, barns and even the dog kennel.
A sloping wooden market town that inspired painters, next to a UNESCO pilgrimage park in the hills.
A 15th-century larch church, built without a single nail and painted inside like a jewellery box.
