What the route covers
The tour starts in front of St Mary's Basilica and follows Floriańska Street. It looks at the events of the Nazi occupation and how local people lived through them, and reaches Main Market Square, which was the setting of public executions during the war and was renamed after Adolf Hitler.
Stops include buildings from the Nazi period, such as the headquarters of the Ordnungspolizei, and places linked to the Armia Krajowa, the Polish resistance.
Other stops on the route
At the Collegium Novum the guide tells an episode from Krakow’s war years. The route also passes a former Gestapo prison and the Katyn Cross, and ends at the Grunwald Monument.
How it works
You walk for about two hours with an English-speaking guide. The meeting point is in the centre, in front of St Mary's Basilica, at the scheduled time, and the tour ends at the Grunwald Monument.
The subject is the occupation as seen from the streets of the centre: buildings, places of resistance and places of suffering for the local population.
