Across the river from Kazimierz — a quiet, up-and-coming residential district that was the wartime ghetto, now home to Schindler's Factory and the modern art museum. Calm, local and cheap, with leafy squares and river paths, a footbridge from the action but a world away in feel.
A look around
What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
1/2
€45–75
typical per night in Poland
Easy on the wallet
Cheapest in KrakówPriciest
Among the cheapest areas to sleep in Kraków.
Where it sits
The circle is Podgórze and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
Kraków John Paul II (KRK)~23 min drive12.8 km
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- Jewish Kazimierz12 min walk965 m
- Kazimierz after dark14 min walk1.2 km
- Wawel Castle & Cathedral22 min walk1.9 km
- St Mary's Basilica27 min walk2.3 km
- The Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)28 min walk2.4 km
- Rynek Główny (Main Square)29 min walk2.4 km
- Collegium Maius7 min taxi2.4 km
- The Barbican & Floriańska Gate8 min taxi2.6 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 5.Schindler's Factory museum — Oskar Schindler's enamel factory, now a powerful, immersive museum of Kraków under Nazi occupation — the ghetto, the resistance, the 1,200 Jews Schindler saved. Harrowing and superbly done; book ahead, it sells out. In Podgórze, over the river.
- 14.Ghetto Heroes Square — The square in Podgórze where the Jews of Kraków were gathered for deportation, now a stark memorial of 70 empty bronze chairs, each standing for a thousand lives. Quiet and devastating, with the surviving stretch of ghetto wall and the pharmacy museum nearby.
When are you staying?
Find cheap flights to Kraków
Booking.com & Airbnb open searched to Podgórze; flights via Google Flights.