Poland · Heritage Walks

Krakow Jewish Quarter: Exploration Game and Tour

2 Hours Round trip from Kraków Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Explore Kazimierz through a self-guided city game
  • 02 Solve puzzles and challenges to unlock each next stop
  • 03 Learn about Jewish heritage, local history, and street art
  • 04 Visit historic landmarks including synagogues and market squares
  • 05 Discover stories from everyday life in Kraków’s Jewish Quarter
  • 06 Play at your own pace with flexible start and break times
  • 07 Works offline once the game is unlocked
  • 08 A mix of walking tour, treasure hunt, and escape game

Discover Kraków’s historic Jewish Quarter in a different way with this self-guided exploration game through Kazimierz. Using the app, you’ll solve fun challenges and puzzles that lead you from one location to the next, unlocking stories about the district’s Jewish heritage, landmarks, street art, and everyday life along the way.

This experience blends a walking tour, treasure hunt, and outdoor escape game, giving you the freedom to start when you like and explore at your own pace. Along the route, you’ll encounter historic squares, synagogues, bridges, murals, and atmospheric corners of one of Kraków’s most fascinating neighborhoods.

This experience blends a walking tour, treasure hunt, and outdoor escape game, giving you the freedom to start when you like and explore at your own pace.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 2 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Not included
Transport Not included
Wheelchair access No
City Cracow
Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

This historic square was a Jewish market in the pre-war days, with its rotunda serving as a kosher slaughterhouse. Today you'll still find butcher shops inside, while fast food windows line the exterior - mostly selling 'zapiekanki,' the local street food.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Izaak Synagogue, formally known as the Isaak Jakubowicz Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue from 1644 situated in the historic Kazimierz district of Kraków, Poland. The synagogue is named for its donor, Izaak Jakubowicz, also called Isaac the Rich, a banker to King Ladislaus IV of Poland.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.It was built in the 16th century by Sebastian Montelupi, and served as a headquarters of the Polish Post, and one of the centers of Italian culture in Kraków. When it was operating as a postal centre stagecoaches to Venice departed from here.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr Basilica, also known as Skałka, which means "a small rock" in Polish, is a small outcrop in Kraków atop of which a Pauline monastery is located, a place where the Bishop of Kraków saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów was slain by order of Polish king Bolesław II the Bold in 1079.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.When laid out as the town square of Kazimierz (Rynek Kazimierski) upon the town’s establishment in 1335, this space measured 195m by 195m (only 5m shorter on each side than Rynek Główny) making it the second largest market square in Poland, if not Europe.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Father Bernatek's Bridge is a modern, pedestrianized river crossing adorned with sculptures of acrobats by artist Jerzy Kędziora.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The pig, set in a position to be lit ablaze, signifies renewal.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The mural was created during the 24th Jewish Cultural Festival in July 2014 and is located on the “Bosak Building” located at 3 Bawol Square in Kazimierz. This building is named after the Bosak family, a Jewish family that lived in the residence for 400 years until WWII.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Built on the cusp of the 15th and 16th centuries, the Old Synagogue serves as the oldest surviving example of Jewish religious architecture in Poland and is home to a fine series of exhibits that showcase the history and traditions of Polish Judaism. It is no longer a working synagogue.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Old Jewish Cemetery of Kraków, more commonly known as the Remah Cemetery, is a historic necropolis established in the years 1535–1551, and one of the oldest existing Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.One of Kraków's most evocative bars, the aptly-named Alchemia perfectly captures the sepia candlelight, forgotten photographs and antique intrigues of the former Jewish district.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Kraków 1 city · 2 Hours

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Full flexibility: start at any hour, take a break at any time and resume later
  • This experience is permanently available, 24/7, every day of the year.
  • Play offline: you DON'T NEED an internet connection for this while exploring
  • Free for Kids

What's Not Included

A physical tour guide

Know before you go

  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • ANIMALS OR PETS ALLOWED
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Infant seats unavailable
  • - Unlock your city game in the Questo app using this link:
  • - Download the Questo app using this link (it’s free):
  • - Head to the starting point and enjoy your city game!

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Kraków, PL
Tour start
Kraków, PL
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 2 hours finish where they began, in Kraków.

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