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Why do tourists go there?

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At a university building in Krakow's Old Town

Why do tourists from elsewhere go to the Old Towns? Some go for the same reasons as the natives. Some treat the Old Towns as a spectacle that doesn't affect their voyeuristic way of being. But even so, what they find is not just buildings, it is a different way of living and being. Standing and walking in the Old Town is not like seeing it in a movie; the spaces and places have their effects on your own body and your possibilities. At the very least they suggest different textures of action; you have a different landscape of possibility around you.