News & Views Directory 5
This is a full directory of all 1350 articles about Krakow, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.
Jan.02.2008 | |
A new year has brought a new marketing strategy for the city of Krakow, as the promotion department of the Krakow City Council has announced recently. The city ... | |
Dec.31.2007 | |
This New Year's Eve in Krakow promises to be quite spectacular, as anyone who's been around the Market Square in the past two days has probably noticed. A gigan... | |
Dec.21.2007 | |
This year, whether you're decorating a Christmas tree or lighting the candles on a menorah, we hope you enjoy the holiday spirit that's been settling down in Kr... | |
Dec.20.2007 | |
Tonight at midnight Poland will go through one of its most dramatic transformations since joining the European Union: it will enter the Schengen zone. On the 21... | |
Dec.11.2007 | |
The 17th anniversary of the death of Polish artist and writer Tadeusz Kantor is going on right now, with several cultural institutions remembering the artist in... | |
Dec.05.2007 | |
If the Christmas market hasn't managed to get you in the holiday spirit, this Thursday Christmas is hitting Krakow full-force. First, traditionally the first Th... | |
Nov.27.2007 | |
The National Museum in Krakow has just been awarded the Arts & Business 2007 award, representing the most interesting and most effective cooperation of the sphe... | |
Nov.20.2007 | |
This week is a good one for festivals in Krakow, as there are several top fests going on at the same time. First, there's the Etiuda & Anima Animation Festival ... | |
Nov.14.2007 | |
Krakow gets its share of backpackers every year, even in the tough winter months. Sure, these Converse-clad long-haired travellers may seem like they don't have... | |
Nov.09.2007 | |
This weekend is a treat for music lovers. As we wrote earlier, the Festival of Polish Music is already underway, and this weekend it will conclude with performa... | |
Nov.06.2007 | |
This past weekend, the third annual Festival of Polish Music began with special performances on Sunday and Monday by British violinist Nigel Kennedy, playing pi... | |
Nov.01.2007 | |
You might have noticed today that almost all the shops are closed, extra trams are running to the cemeteries, and it seems the entire city is bathed in a sombre... | |
Oct.29.2007 | |
The Polish artistic organization A Kuku Sztuka has organized a rare event to take place for the next three days: a screening of acclaimed director Matthew Barne... | |
Oct.26.2007 | |
This weekend, a unique event will take place in Kazimierz, Krakow's historic Jewish quarter. A prayer with songs and dance in the Kupa synagogue will begin a we... | |
Oct.22.2007 | |
A high turnout (for Poland) was just one of the main differences between this year's election, which took place this Sunday the 21st of October, and the one in ... | |
Oct.18.2007 | |
This afternoon will feature the opening ceremony of the Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace, the newest branch of the National Museum in Cracow. Fans of medieval art wil... | |
Oct.16.2007 | |
Krakow's prestigious Jagiellonian University has decided to award the Dalai Lama an honorary degree. The decision was made by the Faculty of Philosophy Dean Pro... | |
Oct.12.2007 | |
This Saturday, the 13th of October, famed director and VJ (that's video DJ for all those over 30) Peter Greenaway will be performing live on Plac Wszystkich Swi... | |
Oct.9.2007 | |
One of the most evocative exhibitions of the year has been extended for another fortnight, so if you were curious about catching it, don't miss the chance befor... | |
Oct.2.2007 | |
Michael Palin and Lech Walesa face to face certainly has comic potential, and UK viewers will be treated to this intriguing encounter later in the month in the ... | |
Sept.27.2007 | |
Andrzej Wajda's film Katyn will represent Poland at next year's Academy Awards. The film, which is the first to focus on the 1940 massacre of Polish officers by... | |
Sept.24.2007 | |
A palace at the foot of the Royal Castle is about to open its doors after a decade of plans and counter-plans. The so-called Bishop Ciolek Palace, raised by its... | |
Sept.21.2007 | |
Music and language will combine this weekend in a lively one-off event under the patronage of the Mayor of Krakow. The loquacious festival kicks off at 11am thi... | |
Sept.21.2007 | |
Poland's most highbrow newspaper, Rzeczpospolita, published today a golden list of the seven wonders of Poland. 82,000 voters made their mark on the survey, ... | |
Sept.18.2007 | |
It took sixty years to happen, but last night a film about the Katyn Affair finally got its premiere. The eighty-one year-old director who made the film, Andrze... | |
Sept.12.2007 | |
A film largely about the plight of Polish immigrants in London has won an award at this year's Venice Film Festival. Ken Loach's It's a Free World won the be... | |
Sept.10.2007 | |
In spite of all the attention on the recent influx of youngsters, Poles have lived in Edinburgh for centuries now. Some have even been granted the keys to the c... | |
Sept.10.2007 | |
A lone bison emerged from the Bialowieza Forest in northeast Poland on Thursday and proceeded to wreak havoc in a number of villages. The cantankerous beast, on... | |
Sept.7.2007 | |
It will take more than a drop of rain to dissuade Cracow's dachshund community from strutting their stuff this Sunday. Several hundred four-legged fellows are e... | |
Sep.05.2007 | |
On Monday, Polish Czechophiles got a rare treat, as not only was Czech former president and esteemed writer and commentator Vaclav Havel in Krakow, legendary Cz... | |
Sep.03.2007 | |
Were eighteen-year-old Agnieszka Radwanska in her hometown of Krakow today, she might be starting another school year like all of the nicely-dressed young stude... | |
Aug.24.2007 | |
If anyone in central Krakow was awake, or God forbid outside, last night at around 1:30 am, they probably got a good scare, and possibly a good soaking if not a... | |
Aug.21.2007 | |
Starting this week, if you want to storm Wawel Castle, you'll have to take a wooden sword instead of a metal one, because security has just gotten tighter at th... | |
Aug.16.2007 | |
The library of the Jagiellonian University holds thousands of historic manuscripts as well as several very important Polish cultural artefacts; however, it's th... | |
Aug.15.2007 | |
You may notice that on Wednesday, the 15th of August most shops are closed and a fair amount of people are grilling outside, having picnics in parks, or in gene... | |
Aug.09.2007 | |
After seven hours of surgery, doctors in a Krakow hospital have performed what seems like a miraculous feat of reattaching a man's member. A young man from the ... | |
Aug.1st.2007 | |
Ten years ago, Cracow's Kazimierz district, erstwhile hub of the city's Jewish community, was a woefully forlorn labyrinth of crumbling houses and lifeless syna... | |
Jul.30.2007 | |
Sixty miles east of Krakow lies the small city of Debica, the closest city to the village of Pustkow. But it is the village itself that is the site of the forme... | |
Jul.26.2007 | |
Today is the official inauguration of the Rozstaje ("Crossroads") Festival of Traditional Music, which will begin with a kick off on Plac Szczepanski at 3 pm th... | |
July.23.2007 | |
President Lech Kaczynski has declared a period of national mourning following the fatal bus crash in France yesterday. A group of Polish pilgrims had been vi... | |
Jul.19.2007 | |
It's fashionable to be a Cracovian - but we've been saying that for years. Now, fashion experts finally agree with us, as Cracow has made the list of the 25 mos... | |
July.17.2007 | |
Polish Daily Gazeta Wyborcza has announced that a new 'interactive' statue could be about to grace Cracow's Old Town. The idea for the project is that it should... | |
Jul.13.2007 | |
When most people hear the word "karaoke", they picture themselves on a stage, either drunk or terrified or both, making a fool of themselves as they wail off ke... | |
Jul.13.2007 | |
Slawomir Idziak, the Polish cinematographer of the latest Harry Potter movie, The Order of the Phoenix', has won acclaim for his contribution to the summer bloc... | |
Jul.10.2007 | |
Even after over fifty years have passed since the atrocities of the Holocaust, the Second World War is still a touchy subject for Poles, and the Auschwitz Conce... | |
Jul.07.2007 | |
The New Music Festival (Festiwal "Nowa Muzyka") is taking place this weekend in Cieszyn, a city about 140 km from Krakow on the Czech border. The event is the b... | |
Jul.06.2007 | |
Tonight, Cracovians and visitors in the Old Town will get a unique treat on Plac Szepanski. A special concert called "Toast & Jam" will start at 7:30 pm, with s... | |
July.2.2007 | |
By writing this story we're technically breaking our self-imposed ban on mentioning Paris Hilton. But in this case we think you'll agree that the cause is worth... | |
June.29.2007 | |
Can't face the squash on Szeroka Street this Saturday? Well don't worry, as partiers who prefer Mother Nature have a brand spanking new alternative this weekend... | |
June.26.2007 | |
Malopolska. Photographs. Unclarified. (Malopolska Instytut Kultury) Coffee table books about Cracow and Poland have been multiplying at a rate of knots of l... | |
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