Krakow '“ a city we should all visit
Some holidays you remember for amazing views you have seen; others for fantastic local cuisines you experience for the first time, the people you meet, or sampling different cultures from outside your comfort zone.
Then, there are the rare trips that you remember not for what you saw or who you saw it with, but for how you felt. Krakow is certainly one such destination.
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Hide AdKrakow is just over 50 kilometres from Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Nazi's most infamous concentration camp still casts a dark shadow over the picturesque and welcoming Polish city.
It is almost impossible to visit Krakow and not acknowledge the horrors of the Nazi regime. It permeates much of the city, particularly the Jewish Quarter, and is an inescapable and, at times, blunt message from the past. And so it should be.