You could be Krakow’s next Hejnał Mariacki bugler
Fancy taking your place in Kraków legend? If you have a strong pair of lungs and robust knees, you could do just that.
Read moreFancy taking your place in Kraków legend? If you have a strong pair of lungs and robust knees, you could do just that.
Read moreA march in memory of the liquidation of the ghetto takes place in Kraków each spring. This year it will be on March 15, at 12 noon.
Read moreHe was the comic fantasy author who unwittingly spread the Polish birthday greeting ‘Sto Lat’ (100 Years) to hundreds of thousands of readers around the world, and even found a place in academic literature on post-1989 Poland. Now, British author Terry Pratchett, creator of Discworld, has died, aged 66.
Read moreImbued with western-movie imagery and nostalgia for the era of cassette tapes, Disco Polo is overtly entertaining and frivolous.
Read moreI’ve always loved apples. Growing up in Poland, which is the largest producer of apples in Europe, and the world’s largest exporter of the fruit, I must have eaten hundreds of kilos of them.
Read moreIn 1491, the eighteen-year-old Nicolaus Copernicus and his older brother Andrzej came to Krakow from their home town of Toruń for a few years’ study at the University. Michał Karski was there at the railway station to witness their arrival…
Read moreLast week Roman Polanski, the accomplished Polish-French film director of Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist, appeared once again in court, this time in Kraków when Judge Dariusz Mazur weighed whether or not to extradite him to the United States over charges of unlawful sex with a minor in 1977.
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