Poland

Krakow in 3 days: itinerary, food and budget

Krakow in 3 days is one of the best value city breaks in Europe. Spectacular medieval architecture, food that is generous and cheap, public transport

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Warsaw guide: the city rebuilt from paintings

This Warsaw guide is about a city that had a choice after 1945 and made an unusual one. With eighty-five per cent of its buildings

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Wieliczka salt mine: a guide to visiting

The Wieliczka salt mine is the most spectacular day trip from Krakow, and one of the strangest places in Europe: nine underground levels, over 245

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Visiting Auschwitz: a guide to the memorial

Visiting Auschwitz is not an ordinary excursion. It is a journey to one of the darkest places in European history, and it asks something of

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Wroclaw: the city of bridges and bronze dwarfs

Wroclaw is the fourth largest city in Poland, has one of the finest medieval squares in Central Europe, more bridges than Venice, and roughly a

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Kazimierz: the Jewish quarter of Krakow

Kazimierz is the district of Krakow where several centuries sit on top of each other without resolving into anything tidy. It was a royal town

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