modern day Krakow by night… Sukiennice (cloth hall which to this day is used by merchants to sell souvenirs and hand-made art.) St. Mary’s Basilica - a Gothic structure originally built in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 14th.
Legend has it that two brothers were building the church, and a rivalry erupted between the two. Each wanted to finish his tower first. In a fit of envy, one brother killed the other, leaving one of the towers unfinished, and therefore shorter than the other.
Each day at noon a trumpeter plays the Hejnał Mariacki, in each of the four directions from the windows of the tower. The Hejnał was meant as a warning signal of approaching enemies in the past. Each time it is played it is abruptly cut short to commemorate the event during the Mongol invasion of Poland when one of the arrows shot by the attacking army shot the trumpeter through the throat and silenced the warning signal. The Hejnał is also broadcast each day live through a national radio station.
