Routes
Day-by-day travel routes through Europe’s second cities, each with an honest budget and the best months to go.
Wrocław
A Wrocław weekend by the river: islands, bridges and the lamplighter
Two days in Poland's most easy-going big city, built around the Oder islands, a twentieth-century concrete landmark and a man who still lights gas lamps by hand every evening.
- Duration
- 2–3 days
- Budget
- €120–190 per person
- Best season
- Apr–Oct
- architecture
- history
- walking
- food
Kraków
Kraków in three slow days: Kazimierz, Podgórze and Nowa Huta
Skip the second lap of the Main Square. Spend the days south and east of it — the Jewish quarter, the old industrial bank of the Vistula and the Communist model town at the end of the tram line.
- Duration
- 3–4 days
- Budget
- €190–280 per person
- Best season
- Apr–Oct
- history
- food
- architecture
- walking