The Guide Office of the "The Royal Castle in Cracow" Association offers guided tours of Cracow and Wawel Castle and Cathedral in Polish, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
You can buy tickets while arranging for a guide at the Association's office.
Offer - Cracow
Guided tours include:
- the Barbican and the still-existing defensive walls which in the 14th and 15th centuries protected the city
- the Main Market Place, one of the largest in Europe, laid out in 1257, with the Cloth Hall and the old Town Hall tower.
- historic churches such as St Mary's (Mariacki), which contains the famous altarpiece completed in 1489 by Wit Stwosz (Veit Stoss)
- the university quarter with the Collegium Maius, where world famous astronomer Nicholas Copernicus once studied.
- places connected with the Polish Pope John Paul II
- the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, once an island in the Vistula River, and a place of continuous Jewish settlement from the 14th century until 1939
- Nowa Huta the youngest district of Cracow and an interesting example of socialist realism architecture.
- Ojców National Park, a nature reserve with dramatic limestone formations only 30 km north of Cracow
- The 16th century castle of Pieskowa Skala, the most magnificent aristocratic residence of southern Poland
