Top Krakow Art & Culture

A visit to Chochołowska thermal baths is the perfect way to pamper yourself for a day. Take the stress out of figuring out public transport, by having a convenient hotel pickup and drop-off included. You'll travel in an air-conditioned vehicle directly to the thermal baths, with an entrance ticket included. Enjoy the healing thermal waters, and lots of jacuzzis, saunas, and relaxation areas to explore too. If you’re hungry, there is a restaurant on site too.

With its many nocturnes, mazurkas and polonaises (based on Polish dance), Chopin's music is marked by a feeling of longing for his homeland, making this musical experience a wonderful way to enter the rich history and culture of Poland. Begin your evening at the Chopin Gallery, located in the heart of Krakow's Old Town. Take your seat inside the 15th-century building, once inhabited by the huntmaster of the Royal Family. Award-winning pianists will then take the stage and perform Chopin’s most celebrated pieces within the historic venue. After the 1-hour concert concludes, you can continue exploring the restaurants and nightlife in Old Town Krakow, or make your own way to your next destination from the venue's central location.

Pay your respects at the most notorious of all Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. If you choose the guided option, learn all about the history of this somber place from your guide. Otherwise, tour at your own pace without a guide. This is a convenient way to visit the important site from Krakow.

Soak up an evening of Polish food and folklore with a dinner show at Michalik's Cave in Krakow. Formerly frequented by the city’s bohemian crowd, settle into the artsy atmosphere and enjoy a folk music concert and dance show, showing off the country’s colorful costumes and longtime traditions. Afterward, savor an authentic, 2-course meal of regional specialties.

This tour will take you back centuries, through medieval Krakow. Your guide will show you some of the most beautiful buildings, tell you about the hidden histories behind them, and share with you the many stories that have been passed down for generations. Stories of Vampires, Ghosts, Dragons and Devils. You will learn of some of the greatest men in Krakow’s history too, the Alchemists and Kings whose exploits are the stuff of legends even today! Whether you’ve just arrived and want to orient yourself in the city, or to experience the Gothic beauty of it all when the sun goes down, this tour will give you what you seek.

Hop on a bike and get ready to see Krakow from a totally different perspective with this info-packed and fun guided bicycle tour. Stop at a whopping 25 sites and learn all about the history of each place, including the former ghetto, the Old Town and much more.

See the traditional wooden homes of Chochołow, the hills of Zakopane, and the thermal pools of Chocholow on this day trip from Krakow. In Zakopane, you’ll have a chance to walk down Krupówki Street in the city center and admire the views from Gubałówka Hill. Spend 3 hours relaxing in the thermal pools of Chocholow before your return to Krakow.

Experience a poignant piece of World War II history on a tour of Oskar Schindler’s Factory Museum in Krakow. Explore the exhibitions in the enamel factory where hundreds of Jewish employees were saved from deportation. Follow an expert guide through Schindler’s office, and examine multimedia projections, artifacts and photos while learning the stories of the workers.

Get a close-up view of Krakow on this walking tour around the Old Town area. As this is a private tour, you can go at your own pace, customize the itinerary, and see and do exactly what you want. Krakow’s streets and buildings are full of history, and you’ll learn all about it from your English-speaking guide. This is an ideal tour for first-time visitors to Krakow, and travelers who want an active way of seeing the city.

Get an up-close look at the life of John Paul II on this 5-hour tour to Wadowice, the former pope’s childhood home, from Krakow. Journey through the Beskidy Mountains, visit the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy, and explore the pope's family home as your expert guide provides illuminating background information. Your tour concludes with transportation back to Krakow.

WOMAI is over 600 m² of inspiring fun and entertainment you have never experienced before, open every day from 10:00 to 18:00. In two zones you will experience the world with your senses: sight, hearing, smell and touch. You’ll see how unreliable they can be. You will discover a reality in which sounds mix with images and the world turns up side down.

Make one of Poland’s most important pilgrimages with a private, full-day tour from Kraków to Czestochowa, home of the venerated Black Madonna painting. Travel to the Jasna Góra monastery in a private vehicle, and learn about the history of the sacred site on a guided tour. Hear about the legends and miracles associated with the Black Madonna, and see the historic defensive walls that famously survived a Swedish invasion.

Many of Krakow's most famous communist artefacts are alive and well. Hop in your Trabant with your guide and travel back in time as you cruise through the city in a car manufactured by the Eastern Bloc. Head to the Nowa Huta district, famously known as the city's communist enclave. Learn the history behind the neighbourhood that was Stalin's 'gift' to Krakow. Hop out to wander the labyrinth of tenements, designed to be a model communist city. Hear the stories of life behind the Iron Curtain as you explore the epicentre of Poland's resistance movement. This revolution led to the eventual overthrow of the communist government. The 'Communism Tour' was featured in BBC's 'Palin's New Europe' series and covered by many international TVs and newspapers. To upgrade your tour, select the 4,5-hour Deluxe option. It includes a visit to the original Cold War bunker at the former Lenin Steelworks and a lunch in an old-school 'Milk Bar' canteen.

Discover Krakow’s historic charms in a thoroughly modern manner as you cruise through the city on this Segway tour. Over the course of 90 minutes, you’ll learn about Krakow’s history, culture, and cuisine. Visit the Barbican armory, the Main Square, St. Mary’s Church, and Wawel Castle. Your Segway allows you to cover a great swath of the city with ease.

Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in an important place to remember the victims of this former concentration camp during World War II Nazi-occupied Poland. You won’t have to worry about organizing how to get there as hotel pickup and drop-off is included. You’ll travel in a small group and will avoid waiting in long visitor lines as entrance tickets are provided. Tour Auschwitz-Birkenau with a guide to provide commentary and important historical information along the way.

Visit Schindler’s Factory and, during two hours long sightseeing, find out more about the story shown in Stevens Spielberg “Schindler’s List” film.The museum located in Schindler’s Factory opened in 2010. After years of preparations, it has now become one of the most commonly visited museums in Krakow. Factory building has been preserved almost intact throughout the years.English speaking guide will show you around the heroic Oscar Schindler attitude and his merits in saving Jewish lives. Whereas it is not only the story about his life, in Schindler’s Factory you can experience the tough everyday basis of Poles.In Schindler’s Factory, with a certified English speaking guide, you will meet ethnic Jewish community habits and everyday life basis. Over wartime history, you will also discover the culture, routine, traditional dishes and far more. In Schindler’s Factory museum you will get familiar with Jewish culture, the guide will narrate you through a journey around Nazi-occupied Krakow

Get a fantastic introduction to the rich history and resilient spirit of Krakow with this private city walking tour. See where Polish kings ruled and are buried at the Royal Wawel Castle, stroll through the atmospheric streets of the Kazimierz district, tour the remnants of the old Jewish ghetto established by the Nazis, and much more. Delve deeper into the city's wartime history with an included visit to Oskar Schindler’s Factory, and enjoy hotel transfers and personalized attention from your private guide, who will answer all your questions about this captivating Polish city.

Wieliczka Salt Mine has nearly 2 miles (3 km) of tunnels, so it can be hard to know which are the best parts to visit. By going on a guided tour, you’ll make sure you see all of the salt mine’s highlights such as Chapel of the Blessed Kinga, and you won’t get lost either. Coach transport is included and you won’t have to wait in long visitor lines as entrance fees are included too.

Pay your respects at one of the most notorious World War II-era sites, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Whether you’re a history buff or just want to learn something new, your tour guide will explain the significance of this heavy place (if you select the guide option). This is an easy way to visit two different camps (Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau) on a convenient day trip from the city of Krakow.

Visit UNESCO World Heritage–listed Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi concentration camp where more than a million European Jews and other prisoners were confined or killed during World War II. A professional guide sensitively portrays the horrors of the Holocaust as you tour the barracks, watchtowers, railway ramps, gas chambers and crematoriums at the two camps, located in Oświęcim. See poignant museum exhibits and witness moving memorials, where you hear narratives by former detainees and learn of Auschwitz’s liberation in 1945.

Dating back to the Middle Ages, Krakow’s Old Town is one the most historic, charming, and best preserved in all of Europe. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, it has been home to legendary figures like Copernicus and John Paul II. This private tour gives an overview of the Old Town’s past, filled with glory and tremendous tragedy, and will help you see an enduring space with new eyes.

The Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps were the largest and most notorious of the Nazi regime and this full-day tour from Krakow visits both. Take a moving tour of the preserved ruins, museum, and memorials at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and uncover the harrowing truths of Poland’s WWII history and Nazi occupancy. Hotel pickup and drop-off is included.

If you want a life-changing experience visit Auschwitz-Birkenau. Oswiecim is a city that has become a symbol of the ruthlessness of the fascist regime. Several millions of people died here during the Second World War: those people were not only murdered, but physically and psychologically tortured and used as subjects in terrible experiments.

Gain a better understanding about the impacts of WWII on this private, 5-hour tour through Krawkow. Because this is a private tour, you can choose your departure time, and let your guide know which attractions you’d like to spend more time at. Go to the historical Kazimierz district, Oskar Schindler's Factory, the old WWII Gestapo headquarters on Pomorska Street, and the Ghetto Eagle Pharmacy Museum.