Tuesday, April 29th, Krakow, Poland

Greetings!

 Krakow began as a towering cathedral, castle, and trading center built on a rock near a bend in the Vistula River in the 10th century.  It stretched north to add gridded streets around the second largest Medieval square in Europe, one of the world's oldest universities, encircling it all with a huge wall and garden, and it became the Royal Capital of Poland.  

This morning, we walked from our hotel to the rocktop site, and continued on throughout the rest of the City in two large expanded golf carts.   Visiting St Mary's Basilica, and Saints Peter and Paul's Church, we obtained tickets for the huge underground archeological dig under the square we'll visit tomorrow while others visit Auschwitz.

South of the City lies Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter and home to many old synagogues and refugees from Ukraine and Bohemia.  Our hotel (Golden Tulip Krakow Kazimierz) lies in the center of the district, and is served by several free trams.

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