My brother Adam and I visited Krakow from July 19-26 2002. These are some of the 95 photographs I took during our journey. For lack of a better organization tactic, they are in reverse chronological order.

This is the view of Krakow from the bell tower of the Cathedral on Wawel Hill.

This is the Wailing Wall at the Remu'h Synagogue, the only synagogue in Krakow still used for regular worship. This wall is made entirely out of fragments of gravestones from the cemetery which were destroyed by the Nazis.

The Remu'h cemetery now houses the gravestones and sarcophogi which were unearthed after the war. They are from the 16th and 17th centuries and were probably buried during the Swedish invasion at the beginning of the 18th cemetery.

We visited the Remu'h cemetary and synagogue the day before we visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp which is about two hours outside of the city by bus. Before WWII 1/5 of Poland's population was Jewish. Approximately three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, as well as approximately one million other Poles, and today 98% of the population of Poland is ethnically Polish due to forced as well as voluntary resettlement of those of other ethnic origins.

At Wawel Hill, the most truly touristy place in Krakow, it was only natural that I found Mountain Dew for the first time in Europe. Clearly Poland is making quick progress towards globalization. :)

This was a picture I wasn't supposed to take. Oops. Ruins of one of the former churches on Wawel Hill.

Adam plays tourist at the Collegium Maius, where Copernicus studied and we saw our first Oscar, while the security guard in the background schemes ways of punishing him for always being the last to leave a room.

This Pentecostal Church was very exciting to find in Krakow although we didn't have time to attend a service. You never can tell about Pentecostals.

Just in case you were thinking that because Krakow escaped bombing during WWII it also escaped hideous Soviet architecture, I thought I would include this picture of a skyscraper taken just outside of Krakow's old town.

Despite the fact that Adam looks as if this picture is being snapped unbeknownst to him, he is in fact the photographer.

Strange things happen in Krakow. I have no idea why these big-lipped vegetables are parading down the street.

The Church of Ss. Peter and Paul taken from the window of the Stanislaw Wyspianski museum across the street. Stanislaw is my favorite Polish artist.

Adam and I outside Ss. Peter and Paul's. I must confess that this picture has been rather haphazardly digitally edited to erase some unforunately situated women in the background. The rest are 100% authentic, however.

The Pope used to live here. He went to theological seminary in Krakow and he was Bishop here before becoming Pope John Paul II. The population of Poland is 98% Catholic and it rivals Italy for outward displays of devotion.

Krakow's market square is reportedly the largest in Europe. Some people say the square in Venice is larger, but I doubt it. In the background you can see St. Mary's Church which is the only church in Krakow with an enterance fee (of 50 cents).

Adam and I in the center of Krakow

As in Berlin, there is never a missed opportunity in Krakow to use a historic piece of architecture as a bulletin board. Tschibo advertises on the Cloth Hall.

The Old Synagogue in Krakow now houses the Jewish Museum.

This is one of my more random photographs. It is from the collection at the Jewish Museum in the Old Synagogue. I took it because the torah readers in the pointing hands always remind me of Evagrius.

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Adam approaching the market square. On the left we have McDonald's and on the right we have the bakery Adam and I frequented, The Flowery Mädchen, as we called it, until it came under different ownership later that week.

I photographed these t-shirts to try and quell my urge to buy one. I thought the CK: City of Krakow shirts were particularly hilarious.

Since you were allowed to take non-flash photographs inside many of the churches in Krakow and I took many of them I felt obligated to include at least one here.

Note: Most of the information I have about the history and culture of Krakow and Poland was gleened from the invaluable Eyewitness Travel Guide to Cracow and The Lonely Planet Poland.