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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Juwenalia
Category: Krakow Festivals
Place: Wisla Krakow Stadium Date: 05.05Juwenalia Nobody needs reminding that Krakow is a city of students – and nobody needs reminding that students (from anywhere) love to party, listen to good music and drink gallons of beer. And since Krakow loves its students, it provides them with what they need – this is the unofficial reason for creating the Juwenalia. Some basics: the Juwenalia are a students' holiday organized all around Poland, usually in May. The Juwenalia traditionally (offi... 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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Student Song Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Place: Rotunda Club Date: October 2009The Krakow Student Song Festival October, the first month of the Academic Year, is also the time of the most important festival for those learning at the Krakow Universities – at least the more cultivated part of them. The Krakow Student Song Festival (Studencki Festiwal Piosenki) is almost a legendary event, during which many of Poland's future music stars were born or discovered. The first Student Song Festival took place in 1962, and this first edition's la... More »
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Shanties Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Place: Rotunda Club Date: 19.02Shanties Festival Although the sea is five hundred kilometers away, and even in a thousand years the global warming won't bring its shores to Krakow , the city is prepared for an onslaught of sea dogs. In fact, it suffers one every February since 1981 during the Shanties festival. The International Sea Songs Festival “Shanties” started off as a local event, taking place some 27 years ago in a basement of a community center in Krakow. Su... More »
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Cracow Screen Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Place: Plac Szczepanski Date: 15.05Cracow Screen Festival Cracow Screen Festival may me the youngest of Krakow music festivals, but it seems that this is the way a good music festival should be. For rock’n’roll should always be the screaming, energetic and naughty little kid that behaves inappropriately in all those dull and serious places: and thanks to it taking place in the middle of the Krakow Old Town, the Cracow Screen Festival does just that. One more ... More »
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