Attractions in Kraków

monastery with papal enclosure, open to the faithful only for Masses in the chapel

a forest reserve in Poprad Landscape Park with remnants of the Carpathian Primeval Forest

a copy of the Slavic Zbruch Idol from 1968, set up at the foot of Wawel Hill

1990s church designed by an architect from Tarnów, with plans going back to 1914

post-war parish church from 1959, preceded by a chapel with altars by Stanisław Faron

a glacial pond at 1120 m above sea level turning into a peat bog with rare plants

commemoration of 29 Roma shot in 1942, with 29 granite stones

a former prayer house from 1879 in Podgórze, today the seat of an art gallery

church from 1948-65 on a Greek cross plan, with a dome and eight-column porticoes

90-metre mural of the history of Kraków on the retaining wall of Lasota Hill in Podgórze

reconstructed forester's settlement from 1934 with an exhibition of Gorce National Park

branch of the Bystra Valley with two glacial cirques below Kasprowy Wierch

gallery of young contemporary art on the second floor of a townhouse by the Planty

valley below Kasprowy Wierch with Kasprowy Stawek pond, Swiss stone pines and the Kasprowa Niżnia cave

resort on the slopes of Jaworzynka with 11 lifts, runs up to 3.4 km and a 1,600 m chairlift

private collection of agates and petrified trees, with a huge black oak in front of the entrance

resort in the Little Pieniny with a 783 m chairlift and a 1,800 m family run

hill in Ojców National Park with rocks, the Dark Cave and a green trail

biblical sculptures by Jan Wnęk in a branch of the Diocesan Museum by the sanctuary

ecological site of 60 ha of old beech forest between the Wodna and Siersza estates

First World War cemetery designed by Dušan Jurkovič, with a twenty-metre stone tower

625 m summit in the Little Beskids with viewpoint clearings towards Babia Góra and the Polica Range

site of the first gas chamber in Birkenau, commemorated with plaques in three languages

chapel on the site of a burnt wooden church, with a surviving figure of Mary and the Stations of the Cross