As is our tradition, we will welcome the New Year together with those who love music at an extraordinary New Year gala concert, to which this year we have invited the Wojciech Karolak Trio, the renowned jazz guitarist Jarek Śmietana and, of course, the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by...

U.S. experts have predicted that Poland has vast quantities of unconventional gas, perhaps even as much as five trillion cubic metres. The process of verifying this by means of explorative drilling is presently underway. Many of the international giants in the industry have purchased the...

Kraków’s soccer supporters still have not forgiven Michel Platini, President of UEFA, the Polish Football Association and the politicians who did not choose their city as one of the Polish centres in which the matches of EURO 2012, i.e. this year’s European championship organized...

Not many medieval stained-glass windows have survived in Kraków, and most of those that have can be seen in St. Mary’s Church. This type of art was only revived in the city in the early twentieth century, when Kraków’s Stained-Glass Workshop (Krakowski Zakład Witrażów) SG Żelenski was...

This association was established in Poland in 1991, after the First World Congress of Hidden Children which took place between 26th-27th May, 1991. The headquarters are in Warsaw but there are four branches located in Cracow, Łódź, Wrocław and Gdańsk. There is an Annual General Meeting of the...

Before his retirement last winter, in the wider world Polish ski jumping was associated primarily with Adam Małysz. Now it seems that Kamil Stoch will take over this mantle. He proved last season in the World Cup competitions that he is ready and able for such a role. Kamil also did very well in...

An interview with Wojciech Strączek, President of the Harenda ski station in Zakopane.
• A state of the art cable car has been operating in Harenda for five years. To what extent has such a well equipped ski station become part of the tourist scene in...

...from PAWEŁ PRZYTOCKI, Managing and Artistic Director of the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Cracow.
The concert repertoire in December is a kind of harbinger of Christmas and New Year period, which has a very specific ambience. The first concerts from the symphonic and...

The past year has seen a considerable improvement in the Polish economy. Economists have assessed that, despite the European crisis, the Polish GDP in 2011 will grow by about 4 %. It is a very good result compared with the rest of Europe, but it does not mean that the economy of our country is not...

An interview with Róża Thun, MEP from Kraków.
• What is your evaluation of the events that were held in Kraków during the Polish Presidency of the European Union?
• I can really only evaluate the event I co-organized, but the Single...

It will be possible to view Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’, the most valuable painting in the collections held by Polish museums, in Kraków once again in three months’ time. This is when the ‘Lady’ will return from her great European tour, during which...

There is a unique exhibition at the International Cultural Centre in Kraków (Main Market, 25), which is open until the end of January. It is entitled ‘The Hunt for the Avant-garde: Forbidden Art in the Third Reich.’ and shows the work of artists persecuted by the Nazi regime. There are...

The Hotel Astoria *** is conveniently located for those who really want to enjoy the atmosphere of Krakow’s Kazimierz as it is situated on ul. Józefa (Joseph Street) just around the corner from Plac Nowy (New Square), which in many ways is the centre of the whole district. Recently, the hotel...

You can easily get lost, lead astray or exhausted battling the crowds in the huge, brightly lit and noisy shopping centres, where the shelves groan with unlimited quantities of different goods, and where everything you might need or do not need at all has been gathered under one roof. These places...