Main Market Square

A number of back blips now follow of my trip to Krakow, Poland in early June.

Here is the famous market square, built in 1257,  being the largest of all medieval city squares in Europe measuring nearly 200 metres long.  Instead of merchants from far and wide selling their wares, it is now full of tourists and many school parties at this time of year.  Most of the traders are now under cover of the Cloth Hall, the building on the right, tempting the tourists with their amber, arts and crafts, souvenirs, and not so nice souvenirs.

The extra photograph is of the interior of the Cloth Hall after the traders had finished for the day and gone home.  In the past the  local merchants traded textiles, lead and salt from the nearby Wieliczka Salt Mine here in exchange for more exotic produce imported from the East.

Pleasant temperature: 28 centigrade.