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Cracow's Stare Miasto (Old Town) is based around the Rynek Glowny (Main Market Square), with a network of lanes surrounded by the Planty, a linear park that occupies the site of the former town walls. The Brama Florianska (Florianska Gate) is one of the surviving remnants.

To the south of the Old Town, on the banks of the Wisla (Vistula) River, is Wzgorze Wawelskie (Wawel Hill) where the bishopric of Cracow was founded and where Polish Kings ruled from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. The tiny district of Kazimierz, southeast of the Old Town, is where the Jews lived for centuries before being forced into the wartime ghetto across the river in Podgorze.

Tourist Information

Krakowskie Centrum Informacji Turystycznej
(Cracow Tourist Information Centre)
ulica Pawia 8
Tel: (012) 422 6091. Fax: (012) 422 0471.
Opening hours: May-Oct Mon-Fri 0800-1800, Sat 0900-1300; Nov-Apr Mon-Fri 0800-1600.

A new cultural centre, offering a full tourist information service to Cracow and the Malopolska Region, has recently opened in the Main Market Square (tel: (012) 428 3600; fax: (012) 428 3036; e-mail: info@mcit.pl; website: www.mcit.pl). Dexter, Rynek Glowny 1/3, and Jordan, ulica Slawkowska 12, also offer information and tours. There are no museum passes.



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