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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Zaduszki Jazz Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Place: Piwnica Pod Baranami (Pod Baranami Cabaret) Date: November 2009Zaduszki Jazzowe Festival in Krakow The Summer Jazz Festival shows the jazz potential of the Piwnica Pod Baranami , and has become one of the longest of Krakow Festivals. But there's also another jazz festival in Krakow, whose history is much longer, and which shows the more thoughtful, melancholic side of jazz music – the Zaduszki Jazzowe (or All Souls' Day Jazz Festival). It all began in a gymnasium in one of the Krakow st... More »
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Womens Day
Category: Traditional Celebrations
Date: 08.03Women's Day Poland celebrates the International Women's Day on March 8 th , like other countries. However, it seems that the Polish celebrations of the Women's Day ( Polish Dzień Kobiet, pronounced 'jen kobhet') are somewhat special, and somewhat linked to the country's communist past – and although there's only a slight chance that a Krakow girl will call you a 'commie' when you hand her a flower on Women's Day, this indeed might happen. Women's Day an... More »
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Category: Krakow Festivals
Wianki
Place: Wawel Castle Date: June AnnuallyWianki Festival The Krakow Mounds aren’t the only relic of Paganism in Krakow – another one is certainly the Wianki Festival. Having little to do with its original version, devoted to celebrating fertility, today’s Wianki are a music festival organized in one of Krakow’s most picturesque spots. The Pagan Tradition of Wianki The first feasts that we now may call “Wianki” were organized more than one tho... More »
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Unsound Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Date: October 2009Krakow Unsound Music Festival Going to a concert with one's own sleeping bag is no strange thing for the regular festival-goers, but being encouraged to sleep not between, but during the gigs – that's another thing. And what about listening to live music performances in clubs as well as art galleries, churches and factories? And if the music is more-alternative-than-anything-you-ever-heard and it's hard to say if its classical or electronic or club or all in one? ... 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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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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