A journey through time and history: Auschwitz-birkenau

If you are looking for cheap but tasty street food this is the place for you. I recommend you buy something for lunch before you leave for Auschwitz.
A quick stop here for an envy-inducing takeaway. Do you know what a Zapiekanka is? It is a baguette of bread toasted and stuffed in a variety of ways. I would tell you to try them all, they are each better than the last. The traditional ones are with cheese, mushrooms and ketchup.

Auschwitz is a place that should not have existed but still exists today to remember. To remember all those people whose lives were taken during World War II. Many would have liked to raze it to the ground, to forget that horror, but the survivors felt it was important to create a place of remembrance that would remain immovable and enduring.
Auschwitz constitutes the largest concentration camp complex built under the Nazi regime. It is divided into three main parts: Auschwitz I, Birkenau and Monowitz, the latter, however, is not accessible to tourists.
Auschwitz I is where it all began, the oldest part that was built in 1940 and had about 12,000 deportees; Birkenau is only 3 km from the first camp and was created 2 years later following the evacuation of the Polish population as the "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem," inside it were incarcerated over 90,000 people; Monowitz arose the following year, in October 1942 but did not come into full operation until 1944 when it too came to contain over 10,000 deportees.
Words can never explain the feelings experienced there. I needed time to metabolize what it was. Let emotions guide this tour of yours but always approach it with awareness and respect.
The museum is always open, 7 days a week. Closing time depends on the month of your visit. For more information, click here.

After a reflective and emotionally taxing day, let's drop all thoughts and rock out to the beat!
This pub is located in one of Krakow's most characteristic areas, the Kazimierz district in the Jewish Quarter, and in its deep cellar it offers great drinks and rock music. The beer selection is varied and the atmosphere here will allow you to enjoy it to the fullest.
This pub is open daily from 4 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.; on weekends closing hours are extended until about 3 a.m.
Follow the vibe, have a nice cold beer and relax.

We have come to the end of this journey. I hope you have discovered many interesting places and I hope I have stimulated your interest to want to know more and more. Have you? Then I will greet you with one more tidbit about the city: the legends of the Smok Wawelski Dragon. If you walk around Krakow and want to buy souvenirs, it will be easy for you to notice that there is a dragon almost everywhere. Do you know why? The dragon has now become a symbol of the city and is a widely established belief in Polish culture.
The story goes that so many centuries ago Kraków enjoyed a period of maximum and rapid splendor thanks to Prince Krak who 'transformed it from a small, economically rather insignificant village to one of the largest and most important trading hubs in Northern Europe. Unfortunately, however, after a short time, a dragon arrived who turned Wawel Cave into his home and began to terrorize the population. There are many legends about it: according to some legends, the dragon killed anyone who passed by him or the young virgins or the pig. Prince Krak felt rather helpless in the face of this situation and therefore called a proclamation to defeat the dragon guaranteeing the winner half of his kingdom and the young princess in marriage. Some legends say that he killed everyone who passed by him, others that his victims were only the young virgins, and still others that he devoured all livestock. No doubt that fierce monster terrorized the inhabitants, and Prince Krak sought a solution to protect his people and his family.
Prince Krak's banishment to defeat the dragon. Prince Krak issued a proclamation promising those who defeated the Dragon.
No warrior or valiant hero ever succeeded in the feat. The challenge against the dragon, which had now become almost impossible, was won by a shoemaker who had no noble origins but great cunning.
The man left a sheep full of sulfur at the entrance to the cave, and when the dragon devoured it he was overwhelmed by an endless thirst that forced him to drink all the water in the Vistula River until he exploded.
The shoemaker thus brought freedom back to Krakow and, as promised, took the princess as his wife.