Tour descriptions
Vodka Factory Museum and Tour around Grzegórzki historical and post-industrial trendy areas
(3.5 hours, 4 hours with entrance to Cracow Botanical Gardens)
We are going to tell you about the enormous transformation of the quarter in the last 20 years, we are going to show you the Hala Targowa market, the former UJ university campus in Wesola area, Jesuit univrsity and church, Cracow Botanical Gardens (optional entry in spring and summer),modernist neogothic buildings among other attactions and in the end we are going to take you to Cracow's new Covent Garden, that is the Fabryczna 13 complex, in order to visit the Wodka Factory Museum and try some fancy vodka cocktails
(4 hours) World War I Cracow by car
We are going to show you the graves of WWI soldiers in Cracow's main mlitary cemeteries, a small Austrian WWI cemetery n.384 near Lagiewniki sanctuary, an 1915 Austrian monument to the repulsion of the Russian Army on December 6, 1914 in the so-called Second Battle of Cracow, which most historians claim actually never occurred, the Grebalów Austrian fort including its small museum and World War I cemetery n.391 – Kocmyrzów, as well as a battle site near the breathtaking Ojców National Park that you will also be able to see at the end of the tour
(2 hours) Secrets of Cracow's Old Town
We are not only going to guide you through the main Old Town's attractions, but also we are going to unveil some of Cracow's best well-kept secrets for you. Moreover, we are also going to tell you some legends that are unknown to most locals, and force you to look up
(2 hours) The magic of Kazimierz Jewish Quarter
We are going to guide you through a magic, mystic and bohemian area of the city where time has stood still since the 18th century if we were only to consider arquitecture and urbanism, a place that displays a combination of both a Jewish quarter, one of the best kept ones in Europe, and a trendy nightlife and social life bustling area. Synagogues, a market hall, bohemian bars and many surprises are awaiting you.
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(2 hours) Austrian Cracow Fortress (Festung Krakau) walking tour in Kleparz quarter
Starting from Plac Matejki, we are going to tell you about Cracow under the Austrian (and Austro-Hungarian) Empire and what life looked like in the city. Then we are going to visit the Austrian-period Cacow fortress fort Bastion III Kleparz, the site of the former Habsburg ArchDucal Brewery, the Lunetta Warszawska (Warsaw Telescope) Fort and we are going to end the tour in the former Austrian barracks not far from the train and bus station area
(3 hours) John Paul the II's Cracow Tour in the Old Town, Debnicki and Ludwinów quarters
In this tour we are going to go through Karol Wojtyla 's biography, namely reviewng his life in Cracow by stopping at the places where he lived, studied, prayed and conducted masses in the Old Town and in Debniki and Ludwinów quarters across the Vistula River
The church in which Karol Wojtyła gave his latest resurrection mass before becoming John Paul II
(1.5 hours) Cracow main military cemeteries tour in Rakowice and Prandota streets
A tour around Cracow's two main military cemeteries, one next to each other, to see the graves and monuments dedicated to Polish and foreign armies' soldiers and officers from 1863 January Uprising, WWI, Polish-Soviet War and World War II. A place full of interesting life stories and tombs that are unusual in Poland.
(2 hours) Zwierzyniec-Salwator quarter to Kosciuszko Mound walking tour
Starting from the famous moderning bulding that hosted former Hotel Cracovia, in this quarter between the river and the Blonia meadow, we are going to show you, among other attractions where Robert de Niro is bulding a new luxury hotel in Cracow, the iconic Norbertine Sisters Church by the Vistula river, a wooden church, the Salwator church before walking up to the Austrian Fort surrounding Kosciuszko Mound, where after the tour you will have the chance to visit the Kosciuszko Museum and reach the top of the Mound.
(2 hours) Zablocie post-industrial area walking tour
We are going to tell you about the history of the quarter, including its recent transformation from industrial area to one of Cracow's trendiest areas nowadays. We are going to take you to a former Salt Warehouse from the 17th century that today hosts some of Cracow's most famous alternative artists. You will see the famous Schindler Factory (no entrance with this tour) and Schindler's Villa, a residence of Oskar Schindler, the industrialist who saved the life of around 1000 Jews in Cracow during World War II. Moreover, you will see a fancy bar terrace- park including old railway tracks, few still remaining industrial buildings and amazing murals on the walls of the neighbourhood, among other urban landscape attractions.
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