🇵🇱 Kraków
Rynek Główny (Main Square)
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About 200 metres on each side. Laid out as a planned grid in 1257 after the Mongols levelled the old city — that perfect rectangle is medieval urban planning, not natural growth.
200m on a side. At its center, the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) — a Renaissance trading hall, today filled with souvenir stalls (good ones, actually). At its north end, St. Mary's Basilica, with its mismatched towers and the hourly bugle call (the Hejnał Mariacki) that cuts off mid-note in memory of a trumpeter shot in the throat by Mongols.
Excellent for an evening stroll. Cafés ring the square — pick one and watch the city.