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Celluloid Salute
It's not the happiest of movies for holiday viewing but film and history buffs may not want to miss out on the special screening of Andrzej Wajda's acclaimed fi... | Art and Culture |
Showbiz Hits Town
Cracovians and travellers were faced with a peculiar sight today as they strolled down the main thoroughfare of Slawkowska street. For much of the day, a small ... | Comment |
Folk Frolics
11th Folk Festival: The Magical Green Islands (6th-10th October 2004).
If you've got a soft spot for folk shenanigans, a bonanza of events are due to kick of... | Art and Culture |
Polish Plan To Pull Out of Iraq
Poland, a key U.S. ally in Iraq, should withdraw its troops from the Mideast nation at the end of next year, Poland's defense minister said in an interview publ... | Current Affairs |
The Warsaw Uprising Ends: October 1944
Sixty years ago this week, the Warsaw Uprising, the Polish action to liberate Warsaw from the Nazi occupiers, reached its close. The Rising had originally been ... | History |
Clash Of The Cracow Clans
A wave of anxiety seemed to sweep through Cracow on Friday night.
'Do you know what's happening this weekend?' people asked furtively. 'It's the Cracovia Wi... | City Focus |
Nikifor: The Legend Grows
All kinds of stories abound about the deaf and mute artist Nikifor Krynicki (1896-1968), the subject of an award-winning new film by Krzysztof Krauze. There wer... | Art and Culture |
Poles Uneasy With Iraq Policy
Sixty percent of Poles would support an immediate withdrawal of the country's soldiers from Iraq, while more than 70 percent believe their government made a mis... | Current Affairs |
Discover a Different Side to the City
European Heritage Days: The Second Annual Open House Day in Podgorze (25th-26th September 2004).
The oft-overlooked district of Podgorze opens its doors to a... | City Focus |
Shooting Starts on Pope Film
Italian producers began shooting a film on Saturday about the early life of Pope John Paul II. The film is being made in in southern Poland, where the pontiff g... | City Focus |
Pautsch Portrait Pagaent
The Portraits of Fryderyk Pautsch: Archdiocesan Museum, ul. Kanonicza 19 (until December 30th)
Even if you don't like the paintings in this exhibition it'... | Art and Culture |
Communist Icon To Be Renamed After Reagan
'Uncle Joe' Stalin has probably turned in his grave so often now that he's given up bothering - the complete overturning of the communist system in Europe must ... | City Focus |
Fabulous Fruits of a Franco-Polish Tree
Treasures from the Collection of the Polish Library in Paris. September 3rd - November 21st 2004, at the National Gallery, Cracow.
The title of this exhib... | Art and Culture |
September Shenanigans
If you've just arrived in Cracow, you'll have noticed that half of the Rynek has turned into a building site. Diggers dig, and hammers hammer, and the race is n... | City Focus |
The King of the Tarmac
Robert Korzeniowski's long road has come to a end when the Pole won an unprecedented third Olympic 50 kilometre race walk title in a row.
There was barely an... | Comment |
A Hero's Farewell
Czeslaw Milosz, the grand old man of Polish letters, was laid to rest this afternoon in Cracow's mythical 'Church on the Rock'. The send off followed a traditio... | Art and Culture |
Musical Banquet Set To Start
The 29th International Festival of Music in Old Cracow, 15th-31st August 2004 ('Muzyka w Starym Krakowie).
This weekend, one of the star musical events of ... | Art and Culture |
Victory Snatched from the Wisla Boys
OK, the headline may be a slight exaggeration but even the most die-hard Real Madrid fan would be hard pushed to deny that the Poles gave the Spaniards a fair r... | Comment |
Football Legends Fly Into Town
Cracow's normally sedate airport came to a standstill yesterday afternoon when football royalty touched down on Polish soil.
Spanish superteam Real Madrid ar... | Comment |
Cracow's Airport Will Double Its Capacity
Cracow's modest airport is set for a radical transformation this autumn with over four million dollars earmarked for the complex's expansion.
As much as thre... | City Focus |
Warsaw Uprising Remembered
Boy Scouts from across Poland paid tribute on Thursday to the insurgents who rose up in 1944 against the Nazi occupiers of Warsaw, retracing their paths through... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Mayor Calls For German WWII Apology
Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski has called on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to apologise to Poles for Germany's WWII aggression.
Schroeder should offer hi... | Current Affairs |
The Warsaw Uprising
Sixty years ago this week Poland was poised for one of the most dramatic (and as it turned out tragic) chapters in the war. With the Soviet tanks advancing on W... | History |
Echoes of the Bad Old Days
The International Federation of Journalists and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists warned this month that a battery of legal acti... | Current Affairs |
Weekend Warriors Re-enact Historic Battle
More than 1,500 knights in shining armour crossed swords on Saturday to re-enact the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, the greatest of all medieval clashes, which saw Po... | Comment |
Poland Reassesses Iraq Policy
Poland will keep troops in Iraq at least through the end of 2005, but firmly intends to reduce its presence at the start of next year, the nation's prime minist... | Current Affairs |
Cracow's Breakdancing Buccaneers
A brilliant blue sky had broken through, and it seemed that this year's 3rd of May holiday was going to be a belter. Spring - so treasured here in this land of ... | City Focus |
Easyjet will fly to Poland
British firm Easyjet announced on Tuesday that they are launching a new wave of expansion in Eastern Europe. Six new routes are planned, including more flights ... | Business |
Painful Anniversary Draws Near
Between July 30th and August 2nd, a number of ceremonies will be held in Warsaw to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, the last major battle t... | Current Affairs |
The Silver Mountain
The Camaldolese Monks and the Silver Mountain: An Exhibition at the Barbican, Cracow (until the end of July).
On a bright May morning this year, the remote... | Art and Culture |
A Secret Garden Reborn
Sometimes it feels that you can hardly turn a corner in Cracow without stumbling across a walled garden or an arcaded courtyard. Sadly though, most of the garde... | City Focus |
A Forgotten String to a Master's Bow
Jan Matejko: The Great Illustrator - An Exhibition at the Matejko House, The National Museum of Cracow (until August 31st, 2004).
Somewhere, perhaps hidden a... | Art and Culture |
Reclaiming the Past: The Galicia Museum
A new museum opened in Cracow's historic Jewish district a fortnight ago under the name of the Galicia Jewish Museum. Coupled with the recently re-opened Wyspia... | Art and Culture |
Black Sea Blues
Andrzej Kramarz's 'Czarne Morze': An exhibition of photographs from the Black Sea coast, Camelot Gallery, Cracow (23rd April-16th May).
In the opening scene... | Art and Culture |
The Seven Deadly Sins
An Exhibition at the International Cultural Centre, Cracow, April 7th - May 30th, 2004.
With so many museums and exhibition spaces in Cracow to lure the visi... | Art and Culture |
Treasures from Polish Collections in Lwow
Cracow is often described as Poland's 'second city' or 'cultural capital', but for many Poles who were brought up before the war, there were other, grander citi... | Art and Culture |
Polish Economy Roars Ahead
Polish economic growth surged ahead by six percent in the first quarter, Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner said on Thursday, in the latest sign of economic recover... | Business |
Poland Rules Out More Iraq Troops
Poland has ruled out sending more troops to Iraq, outgoing Prime Minister Lezsek Miller said today.
"We rule out increasing our (Iraq) contingent," Miller to... | Current Affairs |
Polish Troops in Kerbala Skirmish
Polish troops reportedly killed a leader of the Shia uprising in the Iraqi city of Kerbala today, as the military commander of the US-led coalition vowed to "de... | Current Affairs |
Corruption Scandal Winds Up
A year-long parliamentary probe of high-level corruption exonerated Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller and other officials in his left-wing administration on M... | Current Affairs |
In Search of Lost Chocolate
Tucked away in a corner of Cracow's main market square is a little chocolate shop, owned by a certain venerable old Polish brand. With its polished wooden count... | Comment |
Winds of Change
Polish voters frustrated with economic austerity plans and sleaze are turning to a populist party led by a euro-sceptic pig farmer according to an opinion poll ... | Current Affairs |
Pope to Publish Cracow Memoir
Historians often cite the Pope as the crucial figure in dislodging communism in Eastern Europe, yet from afar, this may sound a little improbable. After all: 'H... | History |
Polanski goes Dickens
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski says his next film will be based on Charles Dickens' classic novel "Oliver Twist".
Shooting is scheduled to begin in th... | Art and Culture |
Wyspianski Returns
After a year in the doldrums, the Stanislaw Wyspianski Museum finally reopened today in the newly renovated Szolajski House, a vast nineteenth century mansion a... | Art and Culture |
Poster Pageant at the National Museum
Posters from Cracow's Academy of Fine Arts (1899-2003): The National Museum, March 12- April 25th.
When at an exhibition, it's always a good sign when you fe... | Art and Culture |
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