I found an opinion that Metrum restaurant is one of the most instagrammable spots in Krakow. Well, I don't even know what that exactly means, but one thing is for sure - it's worth visiting. I invite you for a coffee with a view!
It is not easy to find this place, hidden on the sixth floor of a tenement house on St. Tomasz street, a few steps from Main Square. The Academy of Music occupies the building, and you can feel like an intruder here. Many students and lecturers surround you; music can be heard from everywhere. After climbing the stairs (you can also take the elevator), you enter the restaurant with a viewing terrace. In summer, you have to be lucky to find a free table - all of them are usually occupied by regulars, tourists, and students during breaks in classes. I was fortunate to get there just before noon and found one free table. I could enjoy a cup of coffee surrounded by the atmosphere of the old town. Half an hour later, the crowd of students came for a lunch break :)
Of course, there is also a glassed-in room inside the restaurant, but the terrace is best!
Krakow has low buildings so there's no many vantage points . In the photo, you can see St. Mary's Basilica - in the fall, I visited its taller tower (I wrote about it here), and from a height of over 50 meters, I admired the fantastic views. The whole tower is 82 meters high, and only two buildings in Krakow are higher than it. It's symbolic that there is a church dating back to the 13th century in a group of the city's tallest buildings.
The terrace in the Metrum restaurant is not that high. Still, it also offers a beautiful view of the old town's panorama, with the characteristic silhouette of St. Mary's Basilica and the Wawel Castle. It's worth booking a place for a warm, cloudless afternoon to watch the sun go down over the royal city.
From the terrace, you can also see other parts of the city that are not so romantic and attractive for tourists. However, they are still interesting for me because I can look from a different perspective at the buildings that I have known for years.
Here you can see a fragment of the Juliusz Słowacki Theater.
A characteristic, modernist shape of the building which was erected in the 1930s.
And here (on the left), you can see the tallest building in Krakow in the distance, the recently finished Unity Tower (102 m).
I like it because it combines modernity and tradition. Its style refers to Krakow's modernism from the interwar period.
And in this photo, on the right, you can see the second-tallest office building, 88 meters tall - only few meters taller than St. Mary's Basilica.
So now you know the tallest buildings in Krakow! It's definitely not a city of skyscrapers, but that doesn't bother me. I wouldn't change this view for any other.
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