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Magdalena's Kraków: on foot, by bike and with a legend in your pocket
The tune that has broken off for six hundred years
Every hour, day and night, a trumpeter plays from St Mary's tower. And he always stops in the same place.
Read more · 4 min readThe city four metres down
Beneath the Market Square lies a second Kraków: streets, stalls and a cemetery people walked over seven hundred years ago.
Read more · 4 min readThe obwarzanek, a ring that feeds the city
Sold from blue carts from dawn. Six hundred years of history, its own legal protection and one rule: eat it within a few hours.
Read more · 3 min readA park where the walls stood
The Planty circle the Old Town in a green ring. They came from demolition, compromise and one man's stubbornness.
Read more · 4 min readA Tatar on a wooden horse
Once a year a bearded rider in Tatar costume dances through Kraków and taps passers-by with a mace. Meet the city's strangest tradition.
Read more · 3 min read By bikeKraków by bike: how to ride the city and stay sane
The most important advice: ride out beyond the Planty. That is where the city that is truly made for bikes begins.
Read more · 5 min read By bikeTo Tyniec along the river: the most beautiful 13 kilometres in Kraków
An abbey on a rock above the Vistula, an hour's ride from the Market Square. It is my favourite route and I want to give it to you.
Read more · 4 min readThe knife in the Cloth Hall
An iron knife hangs on a chain in the passage of the Cloth Hall. Every guide has a different story for it.
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