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  • 03.02.2012Polish poet Szymborska, dead at 88, brought light to her people

    POLAND'S 1996 Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked irony and empathy out of life, has died aged 88. Szymborska, a heavy smoker, died of lung cancer at her home in Krakow on Wednesday.  The Nobel award committee's citation called her the "Mozart of poetry", a woman who mixed the elegance of language with "the fury of Beethoven" and tackled serious subjects with humour. ... More »

  • 16.11.2011Stairs collapse in Kitsch club

    At least 12 people injured and 2,000 evacuated overnight. The owner has been ignoring safety regulations for years and now he is to face charges. More »

  • 21.09.2011Krakow airportKrakow Airport bomb threat

    Krakow Balice Airport: A c ivilian employee of a military unit at Balice airport has been arrested by police after  threatening to blow up military aircraft.  Krakow airport under dubious threat as man is arrested Sounding more like the plot of the lastest Borat movie, a 38-year-old male who has for the past month been working for the Metrolog company at Balice ai... More »

  • 24.08.2011Cracow trainVery fast train arriving in Krakow

    A contract to supply very fast trains, that will connect Warsaw, Katowice, Krakow and Gyndynia has been signed.      PKP Intercity’s Janusz Malinowski has announced that i n three years time the trains will connect Warsaw Katowice, Kraków and Gdynia. PKP Intercity have recently announced that they have placed 20 very fast 'Pendolino' trains on order, which ha... More »

  • 06.05.2011Vintage vanguard or vehement vogue?

    More and more residents in Krakow choose former communist workers’ district Nowa Huta as a place of settlement. The process itself and reasons behind it are a subject of sociological research. More »

  • 06.04.2011Brit blight strikes back

    Tourist season is just about to start, yet Englishmen coming to Krakow are not those with bowler and walking cane More »

  • 17.03.2011Hadrone therapy launched

    First successful eye cancer therapy sessions in Poland and Central Europe carried out recently in Krakow’s Nuclear Physics Institute More »

  • 19.12.2010Palaeolith burial place found near Krakow

    If tests confirm collected data, this will be the oldest archaeological finding of a burial place on Polish grounds More »

  • 06.12.2010New-old mayor Majchrowski

    After long and fierce campaign Krakow elected the mayor. Voter turnout was low because of frost More »

  • 14.11.2010E- tickets in Krakow by 2011

    No more standing in lines at kiosks or machines. Pay with cell phone for a ride on Krakow’s public transport More »

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