Town Hall Tower

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Town Hall Tower

Kraków


Southwest of the Cloth Hall, this soaring tower is all that is left of the 15th-century town hall which was dismantled in the 1820s. The 70m-tall tower can be climbed in the warmer months.

Transportation

  • tram: 1, 6, 8, 13, 18

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