Plac Nowy

This guide to Plac Nowy in Kraków starts with engineer Władysław Klimczak's round market hall in Kazimierz, carved by 1900 into four kosher butcher stalls that anchored what locals then called Plac Żydowski. It follows the square through the German occupation, when that community and purpose were wiped out, and the quiet decades that followed. You'll hear how the same round walls found an unexpected second life after Schindler's List brought tourists to the neighborhood. Listen while standing in the square after dark, when the windows glow.