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America terra noviter reperta
This Latin inscription meaning “America, recently discovered” is situated on the globe known as the Jagiellonian, which is kept in the Museum of the Jagiellonian University in the Collegium Maius... »
Can the voice truly run along the wire?
The people of Kraków learned the answer less than two years after Alexander Graham Bell had produced his invention. Poland’s first telephone call was held in Kraków on 12th December 1877... »
Come and do not be accompanied
Such a warning was issued when a ransom was transferred, and was not guidance for a not a night out. It’s hard to believe that these words graced invitations to the productions of Poland’s first cabaret... »
Cradle of the Polish media
The journalistic life of Poland is concentrated in the capital, a fact no one doubts. Yet even those who are partisans of Warsaw in the eternal rivalry between today’s constitutional and the ancient royal capital cities must admit that Kraków is the cradle of the Polish mass media... »
Family quarrels, to which we owe the postal service
They say that the only business worth doing with the family is no business at all. If the saying were known in the 16th century, King Sigismund Augustus would definitely have agreed with its tenor. On the other hand, it is worth remembering that one consequence of the quarrel with his family was the institution of Poland’s first postal service... »
Festung Krakau
When three European powers – Russia, Prussia, and Austria – concluded the first partition of Poland in 1772, they seemed to be acting in unison. Nevertheless, it is no secret that what works best in politics is the principle of limited trust... »
History woven with thread
They present the history of the first forefathers, the biblical deluge and the Tower of Babel, commanding the admiration of all the guests and later visitors at the Wawel. After all, Kraków’s castle holds Poland’s largest and one of the world’s most magnificent collections of tapestries... »
How to transform a disaster into a huge success
In 1442, disaster struck the most important of church in Kraków: the parish Church of St Mary’s. The collapse of its ceiling destroyed the high altar. Nevertheless, it was thanks to that calamity that the largest, and – as people of Kraków eagerly claim – the most beautiful Gothic altar in Europe was created... »
I feel green...
The oldest of the trees that grow in the city is the approximately 200-year old Jagiellonian Oak, which is most probably the same age as the garden it is located in. This is the oldest existing botanical garden in Poland and was established in Kraków in 1783... »
Long road to Euro 2012
The home turf of modern football is England, and Poland does not compare to it in the field. Some consolation may, however, come from the fact that Polish football was born nowhere else but in Kraków!... »
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Historical Museum of the City of Kraków
The wartime history of the factory, its owner Oskar Schindler, and the Jewish prisoners of the Płaszów camp became known primarily thanks to Steven Spielberg... »
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Wawel
Although there are few who can guess which church bears the official name of the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr and St Wenceslas,... »
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Various Faces of MOCAK
Since it opened in May last year, the expansive floor space of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK) are regularly filled with temporary exhibitions. Four will be opened on 16 February.... »
