. At the top of every hour a trumpeter would emerge from the northern tower of St Mary's Basilica, the city's ancient Gothic church, and blast an ancient war call that according to legend awoke the night guard and saved Krakow from Genghis Kahn's invading army. Listening carefully, you can hear the song end abruptly, for on the night this tradition began the trumpeter was shot through the neck with an arrow, ending his song, and his life.
