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Wadowice
Place in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Wadowice

Wadowice is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland, 50 kilometres southwest of Kraków with 17,455 inhabitants (2022), situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Foothills.

Plan a trip to Wadowice→From Katowice

Wadowice is known for being the birthplace of Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II and Godwin von Brumowski, Austria-Hungary’s best flying ace with 35 credited and an additional 8 possible wins in the air.

Get in

Getting to Wadowice

It is easily accessible from Kraków and Katowice by car, bus or train. The

See

Worth seeing

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    Municipal Museum

    Wadowity), Kościelna 4, muzeum@wck.wadowice.pl.

Do

Things to do

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    Energylandia

    Poland's largest amusement park with area of 35 hectares and one of the Europe most searched attractions acc.

Eat

Where to eat

Numerous cafes around the market square sell famous papal cake (kremówka).

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.