Silesia needs police officers.
The main police station is struggling to hire an additional 800 police officers. One source may be a series of meetings with unemployed people, which is being organized by labor exchanges.
The University of Science and Technology (AGH) in Krakow ? the biggest technical university in Poland ? has a new pavilion worth 7 mln zloty. The new building belongs to the Department of Telecommunications and was opened on Oct. 24 thanks to the financial help of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
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The leaders of the 27 members of EU have agreed on the text of the Reform Treaty.
Read moreThe national government’s Silesia-based coal-mining operation ? the biggest in Europe ? is struggling to hire an additional 1,700 workers this year because higher wages overseas have lured away so many Poles.
Read moreKrakow has so many places connected with the man who became John Paul II that it is impossible to see them all in one day.
The locations where Karol Wojtyla lived, worked, contemplated or relaxed are called, appropriately enough, the papal footsteps. Each day tourists from around the world trace them.
Krakow would not be Krakow without the bugle call. Every hour, the refrains of a bugle are heard from atop St. Mary?s Church tower. The Krakow bugle is the oldest permanent radio music broadcast in the world.
Read moreThe gorgeous landscapes of the Ojcowski National Park have earned it the title of Poland?s Switzerland. White rocks, evergreen forests, deep caves, the twitter of birds, the rushing torrents of wild streams and a picturesque castle ? it has it all. But one big cave and the castle are the foremost attractions. The Pieskowa Skala Castle dates back 700 years. Wladyslaw Lokietek, the king of Poland from 1320 to 1333, mentioned it in a document he wrote as a prince in 1315. He called it the Castle Penkenstein.
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They are everywhere — on Rynek Glowny, on the roofs of homes, at the railway station.
Every nook of Krakow has pigeons. If you drop a crumb, dozens descend on it.