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Main Square
One of the largest medieval squares in Europe, with the Renaissance Cloth Hall at its center and cafés all around.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid for the gallery and the tower
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Rynek Główny, 31-042 KrakówDirections
- Getting There
- A 10-minute walk from the main station, through the Planty park.
Why Go
The square was laid out in 1257 after the Mongol raids, about 200 meters on each side. In the middle, the Cloth Hall, a medieval market hall rebuilt in the Renaissance, still has stalls of amber, lace and wooden toys on its ground floor, and a gallery of 19th-century Polish painting upstairs.
The lone Town Hall Tower is all that's left of the old town hall, and you can climb it in summer.
Nearby in Kraków
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