Events
Krakow really is a town that parties all year round. Krakow hosts a flurry of events that will captivate and entertain you. During the Summer months the Plac’s are abound with Festivals and cheer that guarantee plenty of smiles and lots of beers. During Winter Cracovians head indoors but continue to celebrate life and liberty and love!
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Easter
Category: Public Holidays in Poland
Place: Krakow-Market-Square Date: 12.04Easter in Krakow Krakow at Easter is a particularly colorful and jolly place to visit (apart from maybe Good Friday), and the Misteria Paschalia Festival adds a pinch of the profound to the atmosphere. The Easter Sunday and Monday are public holidays , so nearly all shops and banks will be closed. Palm Sunday The Easter celebrations start a week before the Easter Sunday – on the Palm Sunday the faithful go to the Krakow... More »
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Christmas
Category: Public Holidays in Poland
Place: Krakow-Market-Square Date: 25.12Christmas Although Easter is considered the most important Catholic Holiday, it certainly runs second to Christmas when it comes to popularity. Although Krakow and Poland in general have adopted much of the American way of celebrating Christmas – Santa drinking Coke from the second week of November – luckily, much of the Polish traditions survived. Christmas Day The most important part of Christmas in Poland is probably the Christ... More »
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New Year in Krakow
Category: Public Holidays in Poland
Place: Krakow-Market-Square Date: 01.01New Year in Krakow December in Krakow? An excellent idea. You catch Santa twice (on Mikolajki and Christmas Eve ) then hear the Christmas carols and buy some weird and beautiful handicraft products on the annual market. And if you wait long enough, you'll see perhaps the biggest New Year's party in Europe. But first, a few facts: New Year's Eve isn't a public holiday in Poland, so there's enough time to stock up for the big party (although you... More »
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Category: Krakow Festivals
Tolerance Festival
Place: Krakow-Market-Square Date: 16.04Tolerance Festival While Krakow is perhaps the most gay-friendly city in Poland – and at one point Cracow planned to organize a promotional campaign aimed exclusively at the gay community – it seems that tolerance is still an issue to be discussed in the country. In 2003 several members of the Krakow branch of the Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (Anti-Homophoby Campaign) decided to change the unfortunate course of events, by organizing the first Toleranc... More »
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Rozstaje Folk Music Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Place: Krakow-Market-Square Date: July 2009Rozstaje Folk Music Festival The Rozstaje (Crossroads) music festival in Krakow is one of the biggest meetings of folk bands from the Carpathian region. Folk culture in general was frowned upon by the declaring-themselves-as-internationalist Communists (in fact, the communist regimes, be it in Poland or the USSR, were closer to nationalism), so after 1989 it needed some time to get back on track. Festivals such as the Rozstaje were one of the most important ... More »
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Lajkonik
Date: Spring Annually
Lajkonik If one doesn't wander around Nowa Huta at night, or meet a particularly dissatisfied group of Cracovia or Wisla fans, it is not likely that one will get hit with a bat or a club in Krakow. A mace – that's a different story. If you're hit – don't be mad, be grateful, as it will mean you've been blessed by the Lajkonik, one of the most distinguishable figures of the Krakow folklore – and one of the most loved ones. To commemorate Po... more » -
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