Kraków’s Cultural Heritage
Kraków’s streets and squares are lined with monuments of all ages. It is a city of art and a city of museums, included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Kraków is a city of kings; it has been Poland’s spiritual capital for centuries, and today it is the centre of the country’s cultural capital. Cultural heritage is Kraków’s greatest resource driving the city’s development.
Kraków doesn’t have a single symbol; in fact, it would be difficult to whittle down the list of candidates to under ten: Wawel, the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice), the Jagiellonian University, the Kazimierz Jewish quarter, Cracovian nativity scenes, the Lajkonik, the hejnał bugle call, Wyspiański, Szymborska, Planty Garden Ring… It has myriad layers and aspects, and it can be endlessly explored through the prism of obvious and unusual locations, individuals, images, sounds, flavours…