{"id":8212,"date":"2009-01-23T16:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2009-01-23T16:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T16:33:56","slug":"cracow-the-historical-and-intellectual-capital-of-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=8212","title":{"rendered":"Cracow the historical and intellectual capital of Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cracow-aeed2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1173\" alt=\"Cracow the historical and intellectual capital of Poland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cracow-aeed2.gif\" width=\"170\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>I<\/strong>f you are going to visit Poland, there are some places that are obligatory stops, such as the Wieliczka Salt Mine, the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the home of Chopin and not the least the city of Cracow.<br \/>\nCracow was once the national capital of Poland. Its history goes back more than a thousand years. Already in the middle Ages, Cracow was a rich city surrounded by city walls containing fifty-five towers. Later, it became an intellectual centre attracting the most outstanding humanists, writers, architects and musicians. City life focused around the Market Square, the second largest market place in Europe-after St. Mark\u2019s Square in Venice.<br \/>\nIn no other place in Poland will you see so many different architectural monuments and such an extraordinary accumulation of cultural wealth. Cracow has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is impossible to list all the different historical monuments-some people might wish to learn more about Nicholas Copernicus, others may like to wander round in the Kazimierz Jewish district, or see sites linked with Pope Jean-Paul II.<br \/>\nEven at night there are many things to do in Cracow-there are numerous jazz clubs, restaurants\u2026<br \/>\nSo all I can say is \u00ab\u00a0go there and have a look\u00a0\u00bb \u2026 I\u2019m sure you won\u2019t be disappointed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going to visit Poland, there are some places that are obligatory stops, such as the Wieliczka Salt Mine, the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the home of Chopin and not the least the city of Cracow. Cracow was once the national capital of Poland. Its history goes back more than a thousand years.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=8212\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-travel-reportage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}