Destinations

Krakow | Dea Birkett | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

Krakow may be Poland's second city in terms of size, but in things spiritual, artistic, and cultural it's indisputably number one. No other city has so many historic monuments, or such a vast collection of works of art

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Touring the Holocaust sites of Poland | Nigel Tisdall | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

It sounded like a holiday in Hell. Seven days touring some of the most harrowing Holocaust sites in Poland - Treblinka, Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto

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Krakow | John Hatt | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

Krakow is the most beautiful city in Poland, and one of the most unspoiled cities in Europe. Towards the end of the last war the Germans intended to destroy it, but the Soviet army arrived just in time, and as a result it remains almost unblemished.

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Café life in Krakow | Isabella Tree | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

The enduring legacy of Krakow’s extraordinary capacity for survival, its tradition of stoical underground resistance and socio-political camaraderie, is a burgeoning café culture of steamy windows and smoke-filled cellars. This is a city where people still talk for hours; where the din of conversation rises exuberantly above the sound of musak and the rustle of newspapers.

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The Incidental Tourist | Greg Clarke | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

There are many ways for those fond of travel to tell they are getting old.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau | Campbell Jefferys | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

There is nothing uplifting here, no tales of heroic resistance, of individual sacrifice to save others; there are only fences and towers, barracks and blocks, chambers and crematoria

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