Krakow Tours – how to spend holidays in Krakow

There is so many options to spend your time in Krakow during holidays! Choose whatever you want. You can go to the Vistula riverside for some chill out time. You can spend some time strolling around the tiny streets of Krakow charming Old Town. In the evening you can visit few nice pubs and try great Polish liquor.

Ideas are countless, but for those of you, who want to save some time on planning and instead fully use holiday time and do something truly interesting then choosing our organized Krakow Tours will be the best option for you! Read this article to learn more about our rich offer. Everyone will surely find something satisfying.

Top Things To Do in Krakow

Krakow Beer Tasting

Sample many different kinds of Polish beers during an awesome tour through best pubs and breweries in Krakow. Your friendly beer master will explain the most important aspects of professional beer tasting. Taste and enjoy a full range of mass production, regional and unique craft beers and learn about the brewing traditions.

Krakow Vodka Tasting

Learn about the history, and production of vodka. Find out why it is said to be the Poland’s national drink. Hear about cultural customs and traditions of drinking vodka in Poland. Taste many various kinds of vodka and shots in carefully chosen venues along with perfectly matching appetizers.

Krakow Vodka Tasting Marathon

Take part in amazing vodka tasting marathon. Prepare for the whole night of fun, music, litres of great Polish vodkas and fancy shots in best bars and clubs where you will have VIP entry. Many challenges on the way and great food to complete the experience will make this night unforgettable for all of you.

Krakow Traditional Polish Food Tour

Delicious cuisine is a big part of Polish culture. Make sure that you won’t miss trying the best local food while travelling to Krakow and Poland in general. During our Food Tour you will have more great food than you will be able to eat. Visit the best local restaurants and patisserie and enjoy sampling many traditional Polish dishes. Learn about Polish culture and customs and about the city’s history

Krakow Family Friendly History Tour

If you’re coming to Krakow with kids add a little bit of adventure to your explorations and make history fun for them. Your children will love this walking tour with additional attraction of tasks to solve on the way! Combine the sightseeing of the highlights and main attractions of the city with exciting and fun things to do for your kids. Learn about legends and fairytales about the Old Town and Wawel Hill. All of you will enjoy it.

Dumplings Cooking Workshop

Try yourself in making and cooking dumpling (pierogi) – one of the most popular Polish dish. Join our culinary workshop led by a professional chef and make as many dumplings as you can manage. Learn the history of dumplings in Poland and the main occasions for preparing and eating them. After the workshop taste the effect of your work and eat the best Polish pierogi. We advise you to skip the lunch before joining our class because huge amount of amazing dumplings that you will get is guaranteed!

Krakow Old Town Highlights Guided Walking Tour

If you’re more into exploring the city of Krakow, its history and culture then walking guided tour is perfect idea. Experience the beauty of Krakow, discover hidden gems of this former capital city and admire its highlights such as Wawel Castle, St. Mary’s Basilica and Sukiennice. Thanks to your private professional local guide you will learn incredible stories and curiosities that you wouldn’t find in any guidebook.

Krakow Old and New Town Tour

Discover the history and true spirit of Krakow on this historical guided tour. Explore the most famous landmarks of the city but also the best places known only by localc. Your local guide will tell you the history of Krakow from medieval times to World War II and the Polish People’s Republic to the present. Encounter the new history with various stories and curiosities, and see the everyday life of Krakow.

Wawel Castle Skip the Line Guided Tour

Wawel Castle is placed in Wawel Hill and is one of the most important places in Krakow and in the whole Poland. Explore this number 1 attraction during our tour with a local knowledgeable guide who will tell you all of its history. You will be taken to the State Rooms exposition which is the most stunning part of Wawel Castle. You will have a chance to see Wawel Dragon and learn the legend that it refers to. Don’t wait in long queues and fully enjoy your visit in this UNESCO listed beautiful Castle!

Jewish Ghetto and Old Synagogue Guided Tour

If you’re interested in the topic of WWII and Krakow’s history, you should take part in this tour. Learn about the turbulent history of Krakow Jewish Ghetto. Learn about its creation and how everyday life inside looked like. Your local guide will take you to all of the most important parts as well as to the historic Old Synagogue and tell you stories that you wouldn’t find anywhere else. Explore beautiful Kazimierz District – cultural and full of life part of Krakow.

Oskar Schindler Factory Guided Tour

Schindler’s Factory is very important place on the map of Krakow referring to the history of the Second World War. On this tour your professional licenced guide will tell you the history of Schindler’s factory and how did he help Jewish people during the war. Explore the interesting main exhibition and enjoy the tour in small group without waiting in queue!

Auschwitz Concentration Camp Tour

Poland has many memorials referring to tragical events of WWII. Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp located 70km from the city of Krakow is definitely one of them. On this tour you will explore the largest former Nazi concentration camp. Learn about one of the darkest chapters in the history of Europe from the local knowledgeable guide. See the gas chambers, barracks and many prisoners’ personal things left and preserved in the Auschwitz museum as you comKrakow Must See Placesprehend the enormity of what happened there.

Krakow Must See Places

Wawel Royal Castle

Residential-defensive castle in Krakow, with an area of 7040 m² with 71 exhibition halls. The castle was built in 13th century and has been extended and renovated over the next years. The centuries-old residence of kings and the symbol of Polish statehood, in 1930 the Castle also became one of the most important museums in the country, storing a valuable collection of paintings, graphics, sculptures, textiles, goldsmiths, military items, porcelain and furniture. Wawel’s collections of eastern art include the great and the largest collection of tents in Europe.

Castle collections are presented at several permanent exhibitions, showing the appearance of the royal residence in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Wawel Cathedral

Archcathedral Basilica of St. Stanisław and St. Wacław in Krakow is archcathedral church, located in Wawel, owned by the archdiocese of Kraków. A place of coronation of Polish kings and their burial. Many Saints, Cracow bishops and almost all kings since Władysław I the Elbow-high to Stanisław Leszczyński are buried there. The cathedral is surrounded by three towers. In the north there is the Sigismund Tower with the famous bell “Zygmunt”. Second is Clock Tower, taller one, topped with a Baroque cupola, while on the southern side there is a third one, called the Wikary Tower or Silver Bells, because the bells hanging there contain an admixture of silver.

Krakow Old Town

Krakow Old Town is one of the most beautiful and representative parts of the city. This is the oldest area of Krakow, surrounded by Planty Park. Its center is the Main Market Square. In 1978, the Old Town, along with Wawel, Kazimierz and Stradom, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In 1994 together with Wawel, Stradom, Kazimierz, Podgórze, Nowy Świat and Piasek, it was recognized as a Historical Monument. The architectural complex of the Old Town survived all the cataclysms and wars of the past and has kept the layout unchanged since the Middle Ages.

Krakow Barbican

The Krakow Barbican is the northernmost part of the city’s fortifications in Krakow. It is a Gothic building with seven turrets, rounded and six-sided, arranged alternately with each other. Formerly, it was connected with the St. Florian’s Gate with a long neck and its main task was to defend it. The two gates of the fortress were led by drawbridges, thrown over a stone-paved moat, 24 meters wide and 3,5 meters deep.

Kazimierz District

Part of the Old Town District in Krakow. From its foundation in the 14th century to the turn of the 18th and 19th century, it was an independent city, located south of Krakow. Its north-eastern part was occupied by the Jewish quarter. For many centuries, Kazimierz was a place of coexistence and infiltration of Jewish and Christian culture so it’s perfect place to go if you want to understand the past and present of Jewish culture and history. Currently, it is one of the most important tourist attractions of Krakow, it is also one of the centers of the city’s cultural life.

The monuments of Kazimierz together with the Old Town District and Wawel were entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1978.

Vistula Boulevards

Vistula boulevards in Krakow are historic hydrotechnical constructions with a flood function in Kraków along the Vistula. It’s difficult to imagine the panorama of Krakow without the Vistula River Boulevards. Along with the adjacent fragments of the Vistula and Rudawa embankments, they gained the function and status of park areas, being now a popular recreational and leisure place for Krakow residents and tourists. Thanks to many paths, the long riverside promenade is perfect for a walk or bike or rollerblades ride.

Market Square Underground Museum

It’s located below the eastern part of the Main Market Square and covers an area of over 6000m², of which the archaeological reserve – nearly 4000 m².

Permanent and temporary exhibitions in the underground museum are very innovative. Holographic devices for the presentation of reconstruction of buildings, designed to create in the museum an atmosphere that allows you to empathize with Cracow from seven hundred years ago.

The underground exhibition presents both the history of Krakow and the relationship of this city with the Hanseatic League and the trade and cultural centers of medieval Europe. The presented monuments are coins from the 14th century, ceramics, decorations, medieval tools, 600-year hygiene utensils and much more.

Everyday life in Krakow is documented by collected objects: clay figurines, leather shoes, dice, beads and medallions from the East, as well as caves of Tatar arrows. The unique on a global scale is the 693-kg mass of commercial lead.

Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory

Factory founded in 1937 as a place of production of enamelled and tin products. Taken over by German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler in 1939, as the German Enamelware Factory, run by Schindler until 1945. The permanent exhibition presented in the museum is entitled Kraków – the time of occupation in 1939-1945. The intention of the museum is to show the history of the factory at Lipowa street in Krakow in a wider historical context. In 45 exhibition halls there is shown Krakow and its residents from the times of the Second World War.

Krakow Sightseeing

As you can see, Krakow is a beautiful place with a lot of things to see and to do. If you want to make sure that you will see its highlights and the most important and interesting parts choose one of our sightseeing Krakow tours. Your private guide can show you every corner of the charming Krakow Old Town and Wawel Hill and tell you all of its story. If you want to go somewhere further, you can pick one of our 1-day tours outside of Krakow and explore other places.

Private guide and transport (if needed) are always included in price. What’s more, for your convenience, you can choose between private and shared options of our Krakow Tours. If you’re travelling alone and want to meet new interesting people then group tour will be perfect for you, but if you’re coming to the capital city with your friends of family – private option will meet all of your expectations.

Whatever you decide for – you will spend unforgettable time in Krakow!

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