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Ryanair additionally operate cheap flights to Krakow from Glasgow Prestwick, with other central European budget airlines offering flights to Krakow from Manchester and London Gatwick. Scheduled flights or offer by British Airways, with other European network carriers offering connections via hubs such as Munich, Vienna or Warsaw. Alternatively, other budget airlines offer cheap flights to nearby Katowice.
Mini Guide to Krakow
Situated on the Vistula river, Krakow forms one of the oldest and largest cities in latter-day Poland - indeed, it formerly served as the nation’s capital - and retains vast appeal as a site of academic and cultural interest. An estimated seven million visitors head every year to what the official Krakow PR describes as “a city wrapped in legend, where time flows differently”, although many come here for more sombre historical reasons: as the capital of the General Government, Krakow and its surrounds felt the iron fist of Nazi Germany harder than most. Plaszow and Auschwitz, the sites of two of the largest concentration camps, sit close by, and Kazimierz, the city’s Jewish district, bears the scars of the ghetto it became under Nazi rule.
Unsurprisingly, elsewhere the emphasis is on what’s still standing, defiant. Krakow boasts a wide range of eye-catching architecture, from the Gothic St. Mary’s Basilica, in the vast, breathtaking Main Market Square (Rynek Glowny), to the industrial suburb of Nowa Huta, whose concrete shows of socialism constitute post-War urban planners’ idea of a response to fascism. Youngsters love running around the Wawel Royal Castle (Zamek Krolewski): with its torture chambers and bell towers, this former seat of kings is a history book come to life. Krakow still conjures up an image of decadent Old Europe, with its horse-drawn carriages clip-clopping between the city’s cafes, bars and nightclubs. There are also a host of attractions devoted to Pope John Paul II - a trail of houses and churches the former Pontiff at one time inhabited - which, collectively, offer a vivid, first-hand portrait of an extraordinary life.
Krakow Flight News
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Flights to Poland - Other Cities
Can't find any good value flights to Krakow? Read our general guide about finding flights to Poland, or try one of the other cities in Poland mentioned below:
- Flights to Warsaw (WAW)
- Flights to Krakow
- Flights to Gdansk (GDN)
- Flights to Katowice (KTW)
- Flights to Wroclaw (WRO)
- Flights to Poznan (POZ)
- Flights to Lodz (LCJ)
- Flights to Bydgoszcz (BZG)
- Flights to Rzeszow (RZE)
Other useful Krakow travel websites
- Krakow Airport - Official Website
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