Off-the-Beaten-Track Krakow City Tour | Podgorze and Nowa Huta

Villas, Townhouses, Housing Projects

'Where do local Krakow people actually live?' - I cannot count how many times this question popped up while I was walking around the Old Town and historic Jewish Quarter with my guests. To give you a perfect answer, I designed this private city tour of two districts: Podgorze and Nowa Huta. Although the history of these districts is about 150 years apart, both places are connected with times which shaped and defined Polish national identity: times directly before and directly after WW2.

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Podgorze District

Modern art, local artists' homes, majestic villas and quaint river-bank cafes and restaurants. The district connected with times before WW2 provides eye-opening context for the story of the war in Poland.

Nowa Huta District

Former 'Lenin Steelworks' and 1950s housing projects designed and built to provide housing for the labourers. Perfect place to understand social and economic challanges of the communist era.

Alternative Culture

With lots of street art and vibrant cafes and bars, Nowa Huta and Podgorze are definitely the most hip districts in town.

Local Experience

The route is packed with beautiful buildings, lots of greenery, gasping stories but also thriving with genuine local life which you will not experience in the Old Town or Jewish Quarter.

Pick-up at your accommodation

Private tour of the Podgorze District (ca. 2 hours)

The Bernatka Birdge which is full of ‘love locks’ and modern art, former Main Square with St. Joseph’s Church and lots of quaint townhouses, a district of 19-th-century villas where a lot of popular artists live -beautiful greenery, and the smallest church in Krakow.

Coffee break or short lunch at one of the original milk bars or other place popular with local people.

A drive to Nowa Huta (ca. 15 mins) and a private tour of the district (ca. 2 hours).

The Administrative Buildings of the former Vladimir Lenin Steelworks (the direct reason for the district to be built), The Central Square which is now dedicated to Ronald Reagan, where we will talk about the paradoxes of communism, projects and neighborhoods designed to suit the ‘perfect communist community’, where we will see how this community is coping with the challenges of capitalism right now.

Drop off at your accomodation or other place of choice.

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