Krakow
Vistula River metropolis
Krakow is Poland's second-largest city and former royal capital, located in the south near the Vistula River.
It served as Poland's political and cultural center for centuries before Warsaw.
The historic old town and Wawel Castle draw tourists, as does the nearby Auschwitz concentration camp memorial.
Also spelled Kraków.
Original settlement area preserved
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- baroqueExcessively ornate or elaborate
- partitionsBarriers dividing a space
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
Schindler · ghetto · shtetl · communist · World Heritage · resistance · liberation · pogrom
Fortified medieval residence
- cathedralBishop's principal church
- dragonLegendary fire-breathing reptile
- royalOf monarchs
- cryptsSubterranean burial chambers
coronation · tapestries · Renaissance · fortifications · courtyard · monarchs · throne room · Vistula
Organized public celebration
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- film festivalMulti-day movie exhibition
- theatreArt of staged performance
galleries · museums · street art · buskers · poetry · cabaret · heritage · trumpet call
Filled Central European dumpling
Renaissance astronomer, heliocentrism
- studentOne formally enrolled somewhere
- professorSenior university teacher
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
lectures · academia · campus · faculty · medieval university · library · astronomy · philosophy
Old Town
Original settlement area preserved
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- baroqueExcessively ornate or elaborate
- partitionsBarriers dividing a space
Auschwitz · Schindler · ghetto · shtetl · communist · World Heritage · resistance · liberation · pogrom
castle
Fortified medieval residence
crypts · coronation · tapestries · Renaissance · fortifications · courtyard · monarchs · throne room · Vistula · relics
festival
Organized public celebration
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- film festivalMulti-day movie exhibition
theatre · galleries · museums · street art · buskers · poetry · cabaret · heritage · trumpet call
pierogi
Filled Central European dumpling
Copernicus
Renaissance astronomer, heliocentrism
- studentOne formally enrolled somewhere
- professorSenior university teacher
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
research · lectures · academia · campus · faculty · medieval university · library · astronomy · philosophy · humanities
- PolandWarsaw, Gdansk, Poles, Poznan, Polish language
- Eastern European citiesPrague, Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Gdansk
- Kosciuszko Uprisingscythemen, peasant army, universal conscription, volunteer corps, Warsaw
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealthpartitions, magnates, Lithuania, palatinate, Warsaw
- Vistula GeographyWarsaw, Gdansk
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria