Planty is a city park in Kraków, Poland. It encircles the District of Stare Miasto (Old Town), where the medieval city walls used to stand.

By the beginning of the 19th century the expanding city had begun to outgrow the confines of the old defensive walls. The walls had been falling into disrepair due to lack of maintenance after the Partitions of Poland. As a result, Emperor Franz I of Austro-Hungary ordered the dismantling of the old fortifications. However, on January 13, 1817, Professor Feliks Radwański of Jagiellonian University managed to convince the Session of the Senate of the Republic of Kraków to legislate the partial preservation of the old fortifications, namely, the Florian Gate and the adjoining Barbican.

The green belt was established in place of the old walls between 1822–1830 as part of the urban development projects to preserve the concept of a "garden city". The park consists of a chain of thirty smaller gardens designed in varied styles and adorned by numerous monuments. The gardens form a scenic walkway popular with Cracovians. The park has a surface of 21 square hectares (52 acres) and a length of 4 kilometers (2.5 miles).

Park Krakowski, located in Krakow, Poland, was founded in 1885 by city councillor Stanisław Rehman. It was built on the grounds leased from the military. The park was modelled after similar parks in Vienna. After World War I its area was reduced, due to rapid real estate development.

The park was originally equipped with a concert bowl, an ice and bicycle rink, a swimming pool, a bowling alley, a restaurant, cafés, a summer theatre (since 1890), and a zoo. It was a popular destination point with many Fin de siècle Cracovians. From the original setup only the pond remains. Since 1974 there are numerous abstract sculptures on display throughout the park, made by S. Borzęcki, A. Hajducki, W. Kućma, J. Sękowski and J. Siek.

Jordan Park, known also as Jordan's Garden, set up in 1889 as the first public playground in Kraków, Poland, and perhaps as the first in Europe, was equipped with exercise fixtures modeled after playgrounds in the USA. It is located on the grounds of Kraków’s Błonia (city-owned grasslands used previously for pasturing cattle).

The original Jordan Park included a swimming pool, 12 playing and soccer fields, as well as numerous running and exercise tracks. Facilities were added for indoor activities in 1906, in case of bad weather. The park was also equipped with locker rooms and showers. On top of that, a free meal service was established for the children.

Jordan Park was Dr. Henryk Jordan's biggest achievement, brought to completion with the help from the director of Kraków City Parks, Bolesław Malecki.

The concept of Jordan’s Gardens became very popular throughout interwar Poland. Similar gardens were opened in Warsaw, Płock, Kalisz and Lublin. In 1928 the Society of Jordan’s Gardens was established to oversee the building of all recreational facilities in the country.

St. Mary's Basilica is a Brick Gothic church built in the 14th century, adjacent to the main market square in Kraków, Poland. It is particularly famous for its wooden altarpiece carved by Veit Stoss.

On every hour, a trumpet signal - called the hejnał (pronounced hey-now) - is played from the top of the taller of St. Mary's two towers. The plaintive tune breaks off in mid-stream, to commemorate the famous 13th century trumpeter, who was shot in the throat while sounding the alarm before the Mongol attack on the city. The noon-time hejnał is heard across Poland and abroad broadcast live by the Polish national Radio 1 Station.

St. Mary's Basilica also served as an architectural model for many of the churches that were built by the Polish diaspora abroad, particularly those like St. Michael's and St. John Cantius in Chicago, designed in the so-called Polish Cathedral style.

The church is familiar to many English-speaking readers from the 1929 book The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly.

Mirów is a village in southern Poland, in Silesian Voivodeship (Myszków County).

It is best known for the ruins of the 14th century Mirów Castle, part of a defensive chain of medieval castles built along Polish Jura (Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska). To the south of Mirów, there are Beskidy Mountains, including Silesian and Żywiec Beskids.