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World Youth Days 2016, Pope Francis, cracow, krakow

31st World Youth Days will be held in Krakow on 25 July till 1 August 2016. It is an international Catholic event for the young. It will be the second World Youth Day celebrated in Poland. It is going to be a tribute to Saint John Paul II, canonized on 27 April 2014. There are...

Turkish house among the Catholic churches

24 Feb 2015

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krakow, muezzin, Commander, Artur Rayski, Russian Empire, Turkish house, cracow

On the corner of Dluga and Pedzichow streets stands a town house called the Turkish House. It was erected in the late 19th century. It features three minarets, one of which ends with a moon crescent. The voice of the muezzin is nowhere to be heard, no one uses the minarets for...

The Remuh Cemetery

19 Feb 2015

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cracow, krakow, Remuh, Miodowa, sarcophaguses, Renaissance, Moses Isserles, synagogue, rabbi, Kazimierz, Jews, Jewish cemetery

In 1533 the Jewish municipality Kazimierz (back then a separate city rather than a district of Krakow) bought a parchment of land between Szeroka and Jakuba streets and turned it into a graveyard. Twenty years later Izrael Isserles, an emigrant from Regensburg, banker for King...

Legend of the two towers of St Mary’s Church

04 Feb 2015

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Legend, Cloth Hall, St. Mary's Church, main market square, market square, cracow, krakow

The two towers of St Mary’s are of different height, which everyone can see. The bugle call is played from the taller tower – Hejnalica, while the church bell known as Półzygmunt hangs in the lower tower. There are however no architectural plans that would explain the difference...

A competition of elite marksmen in traditional dress

28 Jan 2015

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Corpus Christi, St. Mary's Church, Kur fraternity, The Marksmen, market square, cracow, krakow

To this day, there exists a little-known society in Krakow called The Marksmen (in Polish Bractwo Kurkowe). According to historians, it’s as old as Krakow itself – over 700 years old, dating back to 1257. Its main role was to protect the city. Thick walls, towers and...

ICE Krakow Congress Centre awarded by Travel+Leisure Magazine

23 Jan 2015

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Travel + Leisure, ICE Krakow, congress centre, ICE, cracow, krakow

ICE Krakow Congress Centre, opened in October 2014, was placed by the prestigious magazine “Travel + Leisure” at list of “most exciting new tourist attractions” that are worth visiting in 2015. Magazine emphasises the importance of historical changes....

Top 10: European city breaks for 2015

08 Jan 2015

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Top 10: European city breaks for 2015, 2015, The Telegraph, poland, cracow, krakow

Are you planning a short break? Nick Trend from British magazine The Telegrapf has 10 great suggestions for destinations which look set to make their mark next year, either because there’s plenty going on or because new connections make them much easier to get to – or both. Lyon,...

Mounds of Krakow

30 Dec 2014

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Kosciuszko Moud, Wanda, Jozef Pilsudski, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Pilsudski Moud, Wanda’s Mound, Krakus Moud, mouds, moud, cracow, krakow

There are four mounds in Krakow today. Let us begin with the oldest, and the legends that are set around it. The Mound of the Krakus is located in the Podgorze district. It is 16 metres high and it was most likely heaped up in the 7th century – as seems to be indicated by the...

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Poland

23 Dec 2014

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cracow, Churches of Peace, Centennial Hall, Muskau Park, Torun, Malbork, Bialowieza, UNESCO List, Zamosc, old town, market square, poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau, krakow, UNESCO

The beginning of the List of World Cultural Heritage dates back to 1968, when experts of the United Nations gathered in Paris and began to invent the criteria that would help to find and protect valuable objects and places in the world. In 1972 in Paris, the “Convention on...

Krakow won MICE Trend Award 2014

17 Dec 2014

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MICE Trend Award, MICE, Amsterdam, MICE & Business Travel, MICE Destination Trends, conference, zoover award, cracow, krakow

Another award for Krakow. During the gala, MICE & Business Travel Event, which took place on Thursday (November 11th) in Amsterdam, the city received the title of “MICE Destination Trends 2014”. Krakow defeated Dubrovnik and Riga. – Krakow is more and more...

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