March 28, 2008 at 7:38 pm (Culture, Events, Krakow - the city, Tourism)
Tags: Events, spring, weather
Hallo again,
we all hope the spring will show up in Krakow really soon. But until now March has been rather unpleasant and not encouraging to do any tourism connected activities. It’s still cold and quite wet, the temperature around 0. So – if you come to Poland don’t forget your hat and hot jacket. Otherwise … well, you know, you’ll get a cold. Anyway – the spring is coming with such events as Krakow Fashion Awards 2008, The Wojciech Cejrowski Show or Romanian Culture Festival, all in April.
January 31, 2008 at 10:28 pm (Culture, Krakow, Poland, Restaurants, Tourism, weather)
Tags: weather, wine, winter
Well … simple as that – wear a hat and a scarf, don’t go out too often and take care of yourself. Winter can be tough in Poland, but fortunately there are some ideas … It’s always possible to go and have a portion of moulded wine in the Market Square. Straight from the barrel. Also – polish speciality is a hot beer with spices added. It’s tasty, spicy and really worming up. So – enjoy.
November 27, 2007 at 9:40 am (Culture, Krakow, Tourism)
Tags: Culture, krakow - city of culture
Krakow is a city of culture. It’s said that as Warsaw is a capital in political and economical sense, Krakow is a cultural capital of Poland. Planty of galleries, museums, historical sights and significant monuments make the city the most important place in the whole country. Such places as Bunkier Sztuki, Galicia Jewish Museum or monumental National Museum in Krakow are not only important but also speak to the people of all ages. In short – if you come to Krakow don’t forget to take it cultural side under the consideration.
November 24, 2007 at 10:25 pm (Culture, Krakow, Poland, Tourism)
Tags: christmas, Poland, tradition
Christmas in Poland are traditionally polish, Catholic and very official. You’re suppose to visit your family, eat 12 dishes served on the Christmas Eve supper. Then go the a midnight mass and sing Christmas songs all the way. On the Christmas Day you also go to the church and then basically eat and watch tv. Also people wish good health and prosperity to each other. Well … at least that how it’s done. And after you survive couple of days, usually free of work, only thing to cope with is a New Year celebration. But that’s in the next episode…
August 6, 2007 at 8:30 am (Culture, Poland, Tourism)
Hot polish weather is nothing compared to hot polish politics. Anyone who has been watching tv or read papers have the idea that Poland is going seriously downhill. Never mind – you should say to yourself, if you were planning to come here. Poland and Krakow in particular is still beautiful, people are friendly, and despite of new interpretations of our history – there is still a lot to see, learn and enjoy. So – don’t be bothered by anything and come to Poland, and enjoy!
June 19, 2007 at 6:28 am (Culture, Events, Krakow, Poland, Tourism)
Krakow seems to be a typical university city where most of what is happening is connected to student life. That is basically true. But, fortunately summer time brings lots of attractions for general public and for local people as well. That is why the city, unlike other university cities, don’t die in the summer time.
There is nothing as nice and soothing as walking by the Vistula boulevard in the summer time. One thing to remember is that public drinking if strictly forbidden, so in opposition to other countries you can not enjoy a beer under a clear blue sky.
Another thing to do is to attain cultural events. There are any of them – Street Theatre Festival, famous The Jewish Culture Festival, European Jazz Night, Summer Jazz Festival, 5th Dumplings Festival, and many others.
June 11, 2007 at 8:08 pm (Culture, Krakow, Poland, Tourism)
Galicia Jewish Museum is an institution one in it’s kind. Founded and run by an English photographer Chris Schwarz in 2005 serves both as a cultural institution and a gallery of photographs. Permanent exhibition presents a selection of over 80 photographs taken by Schwarz in his 10 years photo research in Galicia, a part of pre-war Poland which now belongs partly to Poland and partly to Ukraina. All the pictures have academic captions written by Oxford professor and jewish cultue specialist Jonathan Webber.
Temporary exhibitions feature jewish culture, polish photographs and art in general. Also the Museum provides wide range of events, from lectures and meetings with prominent people to dance classes and language courses. Very often one can attend a truly unique concert or cultural event. Vital and always helpful staff consists of young poles who speak English and always try to help as much as they can.
To put it simple – a must see to all the foreigners visiting Krakow. A drawback is poor advertising, so sometimes it’s hard to get information of what exactly is going on in the Museum, even if it’s something really worth seeing.
Map of Krakow with Galicia Jewish Museum on it can be found here.
