Kraków in 2 days
A ready route for 2 days in Kraków: the main sights grouped by area, so you don't walk back and forth. Each day opens on the map with all its stops.
Old Town & Main Square
6 places · about 5,5 h of sightseeing · 1,1 km between them
Morning
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Rynek Główny (Main Market Square)Europe's largest medieval town square — the natural starting point for any visit, ringed by the Cloth Hall, St. Mary's Basilica and cafés.
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Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)
Renaissance trading hall splitting the Main Square in two — free to browse the market stalls; the upstairs gallery of 19th-century Polish art is a separate paid museum.
Afternoon
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St. Mary's Basilica (Bazylika Mariacka)
Gothic brick basilica famous for Veit Stoss's carved wooden altarpiece and the hourly trumpet call from its taller tower.
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Rynek Underground MuseumInteractive archaeological museum beneath the Main Square, built around excavated medieval market stalls and merchant routes.
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St. Florian's Gate & the Barbican
The last surviving gate of Kraków's medieval city walls, linked to the round Barbican fortress by a stretch of the old defences.
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Czartoryski Museum (Lady with an Ermine)Home to Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine, one of only a handful of Leonardo paintings anywhere, alongside Poland's oldest and richest private art collection.
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Kazimierz & Podgórze — Jewish Heritage
4 places · about 6,5 h of sightseeing · 6,3 km between them
Morning
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Kazimierz (Historic Jewish Quarter)Kraków's former Jewish district — synagogues, the Plac Nowy market square, street art and a lively café/bar scene, best explored on foot.
Afternoon
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Old SynagoguePoland's oldest surviving synagogue building, on Kazimierz's central Szeroka street, now a Museum of Kraków branch on the history and traditions of Kraków's Jewish community.
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Oskar Schindler's Factory MuseumFormer enamel factory turned museum on Kraków under Nazi occupation, built around Oskar Schindler's original office.
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KL Płaszów Memorial SiteThe grounds of the former Nazi forced-labour and concentration camp made infamous by Schindler's List — a free, open-air memorial landscape with a visitor centre opened in 2025.
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Good to know
When to go
Spring (April–May) and autumn (September–October) are mild and calmer than summer.
Book ahead
St. Mary's Basilica (Bazylika Mariacka), Rynek Underground Museum, Czartoryski Museum (Lady with an Ermine), Oskar Schindler's Factory Museum
Closed days
- Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) — closed: weekday.Monday
- Rynek Underground Museum — closed: weekday.second Monday of the month
- St. Florian's Gate & the Barbican — closed: weekday.Monday
- Czartoryski Museum (Lady with an Ermine) — closed: weekday.Monday
- Oskar Schindler's Factory Museum — closed: weekday.first Tuesday of the month
Want times, places to eat and a plan for your own dates?
In your own plan:
- exact times for each day, checked against the opening hours on your dates
- places to eat near every stop, in three budgets
- your flights, hotel, kids and pace taken into account