Trip to the Market Square in Cracow does not have to be boring. Apart from such obvious places like St. Mary’s Church, Cloth Hall and monument of Adam Mickiewicz in the Market Square and around it You can find also lesser-known areas. Few people know that walking around Cracow at the entrances to apartment houses can be seen equipment from the nineteenth century extinguishing the torches (useful when achieved the aim of nightly wandering, and the torch was still burning), or that even in the early nineteenth century on Cracow’s Market Square there was a source of mineral water.
You should know that standing in the middle of the Market St. Wojciech Church is the oldest sacred witness history in Cracow. Successfully it can be assumed that the inconspicuous-looking church dates back more than 1000 years old. In addition, descending to its entry well to imagine that it was at the interior of the church in former times housed market level.
There are also associated legends with the Cracow Market Square : about pigeons, a bugle call, about Twardowski and the knife in the Cloth Hall.