To and from the Airport in Krakow
The Krakow airport is situated on the Balice outskirts of the city, just 15 km west from Krakow city center, by the A4 expressway to Silesia province en route to Germany.
Two municipal bus services are available every 20-40 minutes. Fare is an equivalent of €0.70 euro or so plus one needs a separate ticket for every piece of luggage in the city buses.
Shuttle train service links the Airport in Balice with the Krakow Glowny main rail station in the city center. On average, trains run every thirty minutes between 4 a.m. and midnight. The 15-kilometer journey lasts about 15 minutes. A single ticket costs an equivalent of roughly €1.50. One can can purchase tickets on the train.
10 things to do in Krakow
- Main Market Square (Rynek Glowny)
- Wawel Royal Castle (Zamek Krolewski)
- Krakow Zoo (Ogrod Zoologiczny),
- Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)
- Oskar Schindler's Factory
- Czartoryski Palace
- Auschwitz Muzeum
- Wieliczka Salt Mine
- Slowacki Theatre
- Dragon's Cave (Smocza Jama)
Krakow Suggested Restaurants
- Restaurant Wierzynek
- Pod Krzyzykiem
- Chlopskie Jadlo
- Smaki Swiata
- Trzy Papryczki
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Szara
- Kassumay
- Kuchnia i Wino
- La Fontaine
"According to legend, Krakow was founded by and named after the mythical ruler Krak, who built the town above a cave occupied by a ravenous dragon."
More on Krakow
Kraków is a major center of education. There are eleven university or academy-level
institutions with 170,000 students and 10,000 faculty in the city, plus about a dozen
colleges. It is a home to one of the oldest and most prominent
universities in the country and in Europe.
Founded in 1364 and known for centuries as Cracow Academy until renamed in 1817 to
Jagiellonian University, the oldest and best known university in Poland was ranked by
the Times Higher Education Supplement as the best university in the country.
Krakow was named the European Capital of Culture for the year 2000 by the European Union. Kraków has 28 museums and public art galleries, some of the best in the country, among them the main branch of Poland's National Museum and Czartoryski Museum, featuring works by Leonardo, Raphael, and Rembrandt.
Krakow nightlife
The Main Market Square in Cracow and its environs have one of the most developed nightlife in Europe. There are over 200 cafés, restaurants and clubs just around it. The parties goes all week long, but of course the Friday and Saturday nights are the hottest. Everyone is able to find a place for himself. There is a wide range of different types of clubs that play: jazz, rock, modern pop as well as immortal evergreens.