KRAKOW - 3D Timelapse (NO AI)

Kraków was Poland's royal capital for more than 500 years. Watch the whole story, from a hill by the Vistula to the town square of 1257, Wawel Castle, the Jewish town of Kazimierz, the Second World War and the city of today, as a 3D timelapse. 0:00 A hill by the Vistula 0:49 Poland 1:05 The capital of Poland 1:47 The Mongols 2:03 1257: a new town with a plan 2:23 The walls 2:41 Kazimierz and the university 3:04 St Mary's Basilica 3:15 The Jewish town 3:25 The golden age: the Renaissance castle 3:42 The Cloth Hall burns and is rebuilt 4:06 The king leaves 4:17 The Swedes 4:48 Kościuszko's oath, then Austria 5:11 The Free City of Kraków 5:32 The Planty 5:50 The railway 6:03 The great fire of 1850 6:11 Fortress Kraków 6:45 Poland is free 7:02 1939: the Germans 7:19 The ghetto 7:36 Liberated, Nowa Huta 8:01 A Polish Pope 8:20 Free again: the new Kraków 8:40 Kraków today 8:56 Then and now 9:08 The whole story in 20 seconds Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, public domain, except Samhanin (CC BY 3.0, CC BY-SA 4.0), Olek Remesz (CC BY-SA 2.5), FOTO:Fortepan / Magyar Pál (CC BY-SA 3.0). Buildings: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Terrain: Copernicus DEM. Music (in order of appearance): "Medieval Chateau" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Pippin the Hunchback" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Dark Hollows" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "The Streets of Prague" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Spring in Russia" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Sad Trio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Interloop" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Bonds That Bind" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Medieval" from Old School RuneScape (Jagex). Created under Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules using assets from Age of Empires II. Not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.