Book Description: Like most cities, Poland's Kraków developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Kraków served as Poland's capital for half a millennium. It has functioned ...

For anyone seeking culture, scenic streets, and lots of history, Krakow is worth exploring. This beautiful city in Poland is filled with gorgeous architecture and undeniable charm. It also has a ...

KRAKOW, Poland — The notes of the trumpeter high in a famed belfry tumble down, followed by a portentous silence. The notes, briefly, float once more. To most of those dining, shopping, or strolling ...

Kraków's grand square, Wawel Castle, communist-era Nowa Huta; sobering Auschwitz-Birkenau. In Kraków, we linger on one of Europe's most crowd-pleasing squares, marvel at past glories in art galleries ...

Krakow used to be a mecca for Poland’s Jews, a center of cosmopolitanism and Jewish life in what was Europe’s most heavily Jewish country. Now that there are few Jews left in Poland, Krakow still ...

There’s much more to Krakow’s Jewish history than is depicted in Holocaust films. Indeed, when the city’s Tempel Synagogue was being built between 1860 and 1862, Jewish life already had been thriving ...