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MY VISIT TO KRAKOW Last weekend, I spent a day in Krakow with my family. It’s the second largest city of Poland and many people have spoken to me about this city full of history, tragedy, beauty and traditions. It was a hot day with temperatures about 31 degrees Celsius. Firstly, it’s a medieval city. Its centre is surrounded by a great garden. It has a green ring where you can breathe free of contamination, walk watching the tall trees full of leaves, play with your children or your friends, or rest sitting on a bench and enjoy nature. It’s a fantastic way to relax, to think and to dream. Secondly, there’s a castle in the city centre so there’s a wall separating the city centre and the green garden. This wall covers a wide area and it protects the city centre and the exterior of the castle. You can imagine a story about foreign invasions to castles and so you’ll know how this structure is. Once we were inside of the wall, we walked along the streets. The streets are full of old houses and a lot of churches. In any of them, there are inscriptions about their origins. In general, great churches are of brick, are very high and are of renaissance or neo-gothic style and with triangular or circular roofs. Old houses are of different colors simulating the brick or ocher color although also you can see pink, brown, yellow or blue facades. The buildings have three or four floors and more or less, all of them have the same height. In the middle of city centre, there’s a square called Market Square. In it, there’s a tower with a great clock and an old market. We bought souvenirs there and after, we had dinner in one of the many restaurants surrounding the square. There are many people in this place, most of them tourists, so you can see a lot of kind of people. This place smells of flowers because Polish people buy flowers every day and they put them in their windows or on their balconies. Also, this is fantastic for your vision because you can appreciate great colorful streets. Usually, in the public gardens, there are red and white flowers like the polish flag but in the people houses, there are many kinds of flowers. The city is full of different colors due to the flowers and the facades of the houses. Additionally, there were many groups of people singing and playing their guitars with religious songs and you could listen to the music of bars too. Even, there was a cinema on the street where we could sit down to see the film because it was a silent movie (so we didn’t have a problem with the Polish language). Also there was a “splash pad” in the square centre so we enjoyed it. My baby was sweating because she was overheated. We so much enjoyed this experience because we hadn’t ever seen this before. A lot of people ran to the water and they smiled later. Really, it was very funny. For dinner, we tasted some Polish dishes. There was so much food that after eating, we were very satisfied. We tested a pink cold soup called Chlodnik. It was made with beet, milk, chive, egg and spices and it was very tasty. It reminded me of “Gazpacho” in Spain. When I tasted it, I felt cooled and its texture reminded me of milk and yogurt. In of it, there were pieces of spices, egg and radish. In conclusion, Krakow is a city that everyone has to visit. Some famous cities such as Paris, Rome and London are fabulous, I think so, but Krakow is a mix of culture, people and times that it’s essential to see in real life. Over the years, history has left an indelible mark on this city full of color, happiness, manners, development, environment and dreams. It's the perfect place to dream...