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Rynek Underground

A museum four meters below the Main Square, among the excavated stalls, roads and graves of medieval Kraków.

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Open
Closed the second Monday of each month
Price
Paid
Time Needed
1½ hours
Address
Rynek Główny 1, 31-042 KrakówDirections
Getting There
Enter from the north side of the Cloth Hall, on the Main Square.

Why Go

Archaeologists dug under the square from 2005 to 2010 and found the foundations of medieval market stalls, cobbled roads and an 11th-century cemetery. Glass walkways lead through them, with holograms and models of the trading city.

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