Poland

Main market square, Kraków, Poland.

Eros Bendato (Eros Tied) by Igor Mitoraj (born 1944) who studied at the Kraków School of Art and the Kraków Academy of Art.

Kraków, Poland.

Main market square (Rynek Glowny) with the 16th century Cloth Hall in the background.

Kraków, Poland.

Easter market in front of St. Wojciech's Church (with the green dome), Kraków, Poland.

Kraków, Poland.

Detail on the Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków, Poland.

Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków, Poland.

Kraków, Poland.

Kraków, Poland.

Kraków has its own leaning tower, the 70m Town Hall Tower which leans just 55 cm – a strong wind did it in 1703. The gothic tower was built at the end of the 13th century and got its first clock in 1524. Several fires weakened the Town Hall Tower during the ensuing 150 years, so its west wall has been supported since 1680 by a mammoth buttress reaching up to the third floor. In 1685 the Town Hall Tower was heightened for 6.5 m. Its present baroque roof dates back to 1686. The tower once adjoined Kraków's splendid 13th-century Gothic Town Hall that was pulled down in the 1820s. Kraków, Poland.

Easter market in the main market square with St. Mary's Basilica in the background, Kraków, Poland.

The main market square (Rynek Glowny) with the Cloth Hall in the background, Kraków, Poland.

The 16th century Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) in the main market square (Rynek Glowny)., raków, Poland.

St. Mary's Basilica from the main market square, Kraków, Poland.

A barbican is a fortified gateway leading into a town or castle. This barbican is one of the few remaining relics of the complex network of fortifications and defensive barriers that once encircled the royal city of Kraków, Poland. It was built around 1498, is one of only three such fortified outposts still surviving in Europe, and is the best preserved. Kraków, Poland.

Kraków, Poland.