Attention, please. This is a very important information for all movie fans: one of the most interesting and unique film festival is going to take place in Cracow from 27th November to 4th December. We’re talking about 16th International Film Festival “Etiuda&Anima”. You won’t find it anywhere else.
“Etiuda&Anima”, which is organized in Kraków since 1994, [...]

Suprised? But I’m sure not by which city it is placed in. Yes, Cracow is very – you can say – literary. A hometown of The Nobel Prize awarded poets – Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska and also, altough only part-time, Seamus Heaney – is really the best place to organize Joseph Conrad Festival.
The Joseph Conrad [...]

The All Souls’ Day in Cracow is a very special time not only becauce of a unique mood you can feel and experience when you visit historic cementaries as Rakowice or Salwator but also because of the music. Jazz music. Why?
The Cracow Jazz All Souls’ Day Festival - you can belive it or not – [...]

One of the most important music events of current autumn has just started in Cracow. But don’t worry – it lasts till early December, so everyone who wants, will be able to participate in concerts of the best jazz players in the world. Cracow Jazz Fall is a proof that Cracow is the Polish capital [...]

“Lady with an Ermine” by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most precious painting you can see in Cracow’s galleries (it is located in Czartoryski Museum). It is also one of only four female portraits painted by Leonardo. But who said one Ermine is enough? For sure it wasn’t Ottmar Hörl.
Professor Hörl is a [...]

It started from rumors that were hard to believe in: a big white balloon over Cracow’s old town? Yeah, sure. But it became real and – willy-nilly – the part of a landscape as Wawel or Skalka Church. Willy-nilly? Rather nilly. Several British and Americans living in Cracow have united against it and launched social [...]

For several years Cracow is well known not only of its monuments and history but also festivals. There are two reasons why. Firstly – they are well advertised and presented in media. Secondly – more important – they are splenidid. One of the most splendid is just starting. You can’t miss Sacrum Profanum.
Almost everything connected [...]

During the nearest weekend (August 29-30) there is a really interesting fest scheduled in Cracow – the final of 5th Malopolska Taste Festival. The event presents manufacturers of food and of agricultural food products from across region. Visitors who come to Wolnica Square (Kazimierz District) on Saturday and/or Sunday could taste and test Polish culinary [...]

The Finish of the 66th Tour de Pologne, the biggest cycling stage race in Poland, will take place in Krakow for a second time in a row. Competitors, after a week of cycling, having more than 1000 km in their legs, are coming to the town in the Saturday afternoon, 8th of August. Wait for [...]

This year we’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of the yongest district od Krakow – Nowa Huta. It was built as a model socialist city in the age of Stalinism. Communist era has fortunately gone, but the quartier remains. And it is good for us.
In August there are two interesting events connected to this jubilee. The [...]