Step Into History
Walk Kraków in 1570
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Step Into History · City walk
Sigismund's Kraków, 1570
Kraków in 1570 stands at the height of its Renaissance remaking: Wawel renewed under Italian architects, a gilded Sigismund Chapel crowning the cathedral, and a reworked Cloth Hall presiding over Europe's largest medieval market. The walk passes royal terraces, crowded market arcades, university courts, and the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, where synagogues and merchants animate narrow streets and river quays.
36 scenes — 24 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Kraków as it stood in 1570 (“History of Kraków”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Błonia and the Vistula Approaches
- 2. Vistula Bank at Stradom
- 3. Barbican and St. Florian's Gate
- 4. Floriańska Street
- 5. Town Hall Tower
- ↳ Town Hall Council Chamber · interior
- 6. Rynek Główny (Main Market)
- 7. Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)
- ↳ Cloth Hall Storage Attic · interior
- 8. St. Mary's Basilica Tower
- ↳ Veit Stoss High Altar Chapel · interior
- 9. Merchant Tenements of the Rynek
- ↳ Italian Merchant's Palazzo Hall · interior
- 10. Grodzka Street to Wawel
- 11. Kanonicza Street
- ↳ Canons' Hall at Kanonicza · interior
- 12. Wawel Hill: Lower Terraces
- ↳ Tapestried Audience Hall · interior
- 13. Wawel Cathedral Exterior
- ↳ Cathedral Nave and Royal Tombs · interior
- 14. Sigismund Chapel Dome
- ↳ Gilded Sigismund Chapel · interior
- 15. Wawel Castle Arcaded Façades
- ↳ Arcaded Royal Courtyard · interior
- 16. Stradom and Craftsmen
- 17. Nowy Kleparz Market
- 18. Collegium Maius and University Lane
- ↳ Collegium Maius Lecture Hall · interior
- 19. Skałka Church and Hill
- 20. Szeroka Street, Kazimierz
- 21. Old Synagogue (Exterior)
- ↳ Old Synagogue Prayer Hall · interior
- 22. Remuh Synagogue and Cemetery
- ↳ Remuh Prayer Room · interior
- 23. Vistula Quay and Warehouses
- 24. Upper Wawel Terrace Panorama