Poland travel guides

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Krakow in Summer: Heat, Crowds and Where to Swim

July and August turn a walkable city into a hot one, and the people who enjoy it most rearrange the day rather than the itinerary.

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Air Quality in Krakow: Smog, the Coal Ban and Winter

Krakow banned solid fuel heating in 2019, and winter here is measurably different from the reputation the city still carries.

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Do You Need Cash in Krakow? Where Cards Still Fail

You can spend three days in Krakow without touching a banknote, right up until the moment you cannot.

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Is Krakow Safe at Night? What to Expect After Dark

Krakow is a low-crime city where the genuine night-time risks are drink, pickpockets and taxi pricing rather than violence.

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Driving and Parking in Krakow: Do You Need a Car?

For a city break in Krakow a car is closer to a liability than an asset, and the Old Town settles the argument on its own.

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Walking Distances in Krakow: How Far Everything Really Is

Krakow looks bigger on a map than it is on foot. Two of these distances are the ones that catch people out.

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Krakow Old Town: What It Is and Where It Begins

Old Town, city centre and Main Market Square are three names people use for roughly the same place, which is why the question keeps being asked.

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Taxis and Ride Apps in Krakow: Costs, Cards and Uber

Uber, Bolt and FreeNow all work in Krakow, which quietly changed what a fair fare looks like.

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Krakow Trams and Buses: Tickets, Zones and How to Pay

Krakow sells time, not journeys. Once you understand that, the tram network stops being confusing.

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Things to Do in Sopot

What to do in Sopot, the Baltic spa town between Gdansk and Gdynia: the longest wooden pier in Europe, the Crooked House on Monciak, the beach, the forest opera and the wooded hills behind town.

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Things to Do in Lublin

What to see in Lublin: the castle chapel with its 1418 Byzantine frescoes, the Old Town and its underground route, the Jewish heritage at the Grodzka Gate and the Yeshiva, and the Majdanek memorial.

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Things to Do in Toruń

A walkable guide to Toruń, the war-survived Gothic city where Copernicus was born: the Old Town Hall tower, the Leaning Tower, two gingerbread museums and the classic view from across the Vistula.