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Skalka sanctuary,
here in 1079 St. Stanislaw, the bishop of
Krakow, suffered martyrdom. His shrine consists
of a Rococo church of the 18th century with a
adjacent Renaissance monastery of the 17th
century.
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St. Catherine's
church of 1363 at 7 Augustianska street and Skaleczna street
represents Krakow's Gothic
architecture. Adjoining medieval monastery has a
beautiful cloister with fine Renaissance
frescos.
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Corpus Christi church
at 26 Bozego Ciala street and Sw. Wawrzynca street dates from
circa 1340.
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Old
Synagogue
at 24 Szeroka street dates back to the late 16th century.
It holds a
Jewish museum.
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Jewish Museum in the Old
Synagogue
is a branch of the City of Krakow History
Museum. It shows the history and traditions of
Kazimierz Jews.
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Isaac
Synagogue of 1644 at 16 Kupa
Street .
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High
Synagogue at 36 Jozefa street opened in 1563 on the upper
floor of the home of a Jewish banker.
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Kupa Synagogue
of circa 1590
at 8 Jonatana Warszauera street and Kupa street was financed by
the Jewish commune to serve the poor.
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Popper Synagogue
of 1620
at 16 Szeroka street was founded by Wolf Popper, a very rich
merchant. Now a
culture center.
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Tempel Synagogue at
24 Miodowa street was built in 1862 by Krakow's
progressive Jews.
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Remuh
cemetery between Szeroka and Jakuba
streets dates from years
1533 to 1799.
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A wall of broken
Jewish gravestones alongside Jakuba street
contains tombstones destroyed by the Nazis.
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Plac Wolnica square
was the central
piazza of the city of Kazimierz with its
Renaissance town hall in the middle and also
served as the main marketplace.
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Museum of Municipal Engineering
/Muzeum
Inzynierii Miejskiej/ at 15 Sw. Wawrzynca
street.
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Szeroka street was
the central square and main marketplace of the old Kazimierz
Jewish quarter.
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Plac
Nowy square,
Jewish marketplace
in the 19th century is a center of
Kazimierz's nightlife today.
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Ghetto
Heroes Square (Plac Bohaterow Getta) was made a part of the
Krakow
Ghetto by the Nazis during WW2. The square has
been turned into a
memorial to the holocaust victims.
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Jozefa street
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Wawrzynca street
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Dajwor
street was the eastern
perimeter of the medieval
Jewish quarter
of Kazimierz.
