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Kraków Główny, 2016, 2017 r.

Krakow Main station, 2016, 2017

Kraków, Poland by cracowbydrone

Supra Europe Tour 2019

Krakow, Poland

It’s not all doom and gloom. After Auschwitz, we spent the next day in Krakow, which was one of the few cities in Poland to remain largely untouched by the war. The city centre is attractive and largely friendly. A note needs to be made on the tour vendors, who seem to think that “Krakow city centre”, “salt mines”, and “Auschwitz” are all equally cheery outings. They are not.

Photo 2 is of Wawel Castle, which is an old, sprawling mass of buildings periodically updated by various rulers of Poland (and/or Poland-Lithuania) over the course of a thousand years. We didn’t explore it thoroughly, but did see the cathedral, dating to the 1300s and containing many of Poland’s monarchs.

Photo 3 is the ‘dragon bones’ (most likely whale bones) hanging over the cathedral entry. Wawel Castle is strongly associated with a dragon slaying legend from the 1100s (in its earliest form), and so of course, there have to be dragon bones!