Cracovia - altera Roma - English version

Cracow is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe Millions of tourists visit it every year. 

Cracow has been admired for centuries, also as

Cracovia – altera Roma

This comparison was used for the first time by This comparison was used for the first time by Giovanni Paolo Mucanti, who visited Cracow at the end of the sixteenth century in the company of the papal legate Henry Gaetano, whose secretary Mucanti was, he noted in his diary the following words: 'There is an ancient proverb that if there was no Rome, then Cracow would be Rome'. 

There is an ancient proverb that if there was no Rome, then Krakow would be Rome'.

Cracovia Metropolis Regni Poloniae (1603/1605)
  (Cracovia the capital of the Kingdom of Poland)