Our City
You are entering a world filled with ghosts and phantoms, but also with people who are most definitely flesh and blood. Krakow is an extraordinary place which once visited, can never be forgotten. It is one of the few places in the world where you can feel history intermingle with the present.
And it all started, as legend tells, with Krakus, the first lord of a settlement located somewhere between the Danube and the Rhein, in a land referred to by the ancient Romans as Barbaricum. Although little is known about the founder of the city on the Vistula, one thing is beyond question: it was he who slew the terrible dragon of which legend speaks. And it is for this reason the so-called Wawel Dragon became the symbol of the city of Krakow, for centuries the seat of kings and a centre of cultural and academic life. It should surprise no-one that it was precisely here that, as the parish records show, the most renowned of all scholars, Doctor Faust, pursued his secret sciences.
Throughout its entire history the city has attracted, and continues to attract, extraordinary people. From architects, artists and scholars to honest merchants, who left behind them an exceptional legacy of historical relics and cultural and material achievements on a par with anything in the world. Today, thanks to our attachment to history and regard for our ancestors, we are able to combine our history with the demands of a modern metropolis. The development of the transport and tourist infrastructures, together with a huge number of hotels and restaurants, make Krakow as pleasant for its inhabitants as it is for visitors searching for interesting places on their map of Poland.
