Hello guys, I hope you're doing fine. I'm still in Krakow. I'm here for more than a month, like
thousands of other Ukrainians, and I want to tell you a bit about this beautiful city, because it's
my favorite in Poland. If you ask me: "Diana which city in Poland I should visit first?" - for me it's
definitely Krakow. It's very hard for me to talk about this city from touristic perspective, because
it's my fourth visit here, and I live here more than a month. But I'll try to give you the clue where
you should go to find the most interesting and amazing places of Krakow, because that's exactly
the reason why I stay here for so long. This city is amazing, it's full of history, interesting places
to visit, museums, theaters, churches, bars, cafeterias and so on and so on. I would recommend you to start
from the most obvious spot: it's Old city of Krakow. It's just amazing architectural complex in
the center of the city. Most of the buildings there were built in the 15th century in the King's time.
It's very atmospheric, full of very nice samples of gothic architecture. If you don't have enough
time you can just walk the central street. enjoy Rynok square, enjoy the most beautiful churches and
go to Wawel castle. But if you have more time I would recommend you to explore every street in the
Old town, because all of them are so beautiful, and there are so many hidden gems you can find,
that if you just spend several hours walking every street you will get lots and lots of joy. In every
Polish city I try to find the best viewpoint where you can enjoy the cityscape of the city.
and in Krakow there are three of them, on the Rynok square. First one is on the Cloth Hall, it's
free to enter, because there are restaurants, so you can just walk to the restaurant, enjoy the
view and go back. Second one is on the City Hall. For me, it's one of the least favorite, but still
it's quite enjoyable to visit it. And the third one, the hardest to get, is the viewpoint on the Mariacka
church. It's the most beautiful, but it's very complicated to get there. First reason is because
it's very high, and you should work many many steps, and second reason because the stairs are so narrow
it's almost not possible for two people to squeeze there. So usually they sell ticket in advance for
some time. That's why you should buy ticket. For example, if you want to go tomorrow, you buy ticket
today and you go in your time with a group of 10-15 people. Second the most popular attraction in
Krakow it's Wawel castle, very beautiful castle. You can get there for free, walk around, but if
you want to visit it inside, you should buy tickets. There are many different tickets for
different spots of the Wawel castle. You know that I'm not a big fan of visiting castles, so I would
just recommend you to buy ticket for the viewpoint. Wawel castle also has viewpoint on one of the
towers, but if you want to save money, you can enjoy the same view just walking around the castle.
And another very interesting attraction near the castle it's a legendary Wawel castle dragon.
And if you wait for five minutes or so, you will see the fire show, this dragon makes fire
every five minutes. I read on the website that if you send SMS on some number you can make him
do the fire when you want. I tried to do it but I didn't succeed, I guess this number doesn't
work anymore, so we just waited for five minutes and enjoyed this fire show. but Wawel castle and
Old town is not the things that do Krakow, because it's something you can see in every polish city:
beautiful churches, Old town, some castle and so on. What really makes Krakow Krakow it's a Jew region
called Kazimierz. So, in the King's time there were lots of misunderstandings between catholic people,
polish people and Jews so they made them to leave Krakow, the Jews weren't allowed
to live in the Old city, they built their own city called Kazimierz right next to the Krakow. Now it's
just a very big touristic and popular region, so if you're thinking where should I rent an apartment in
Krakow, definitely the Jew region. Because it's very beautiful, cultural, there are lots of interesting
things to see and to visit, and all bars and coffee shops - they are all in Kazimierz. So when we were
thinking where should we go to drink coffee, we looked for the best places with a beautiful
interior with nice coffee, and all places we found were in Kazimierz. Also I would recommend you to take
a tour, free walking tour around Kazimierz. I found one on the website called "Walkative". I will
leave you a link in the description. It's not an advertisement, because, first of all, they're
free, they work for tips. At the end of the tour you give tips if you enjoyed it. And I enjoyed it so
much. so I took it, like, two times. "Guys, if you look here we have a plate, part of a memory trail
in Polish, Hebrew and English which is telling the story of the building but also there is
a map of the ghetto..." so on this tour you will find out lots of interesting historical
facts about Jews in Poland, not only about their life in the King's time, but of course about their life
during the second world war and during holocaust. Because as you know, maybe you didn't know, but
in Krakow there was the biggest Jew ghetto and the famous Schindler factory. I think you
heard about this movie, maybe you saw this movie. And, like, 40 kilometers from Krakow there was
the biggest concentration camp called Auschwitz. You can also take a tour to the factory, you can take a
tour to the concentration camp, and when you take this tour, when you go to the Schindler factory,
when you go to the Auschwitz, it's very hard to realize, that something like this happened 75 years ago.
And it's even harder to realize, that something like this is happening right now, in Europe.
Because all this history of the Jews people is so tragic and all these events that happened
during world war II, they're so unbelievably cruel, so I believe that everyone should visit Krakow,
everyone should visit these places to realize, how horrible is war, how horrible it is to kill people
because they have different nationalities and that no one should repeat it ever again. So that's
basically the reasons I love Krakow so much. It's a beautiful history of King's time, very tragic
history of a second world war, lots of nice coffee shops, lots of museums, lots of theaters. There is one
place I haven't visited yet, it's an entertainment park of Stanislav Lem, because it works only during
summer, and every time I go to Krakow it's either spring or fall. So for me it's one more
reason to visit this city again. So come here and enjoy Krakow and I'll see in the next video, bye.