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Capuchin Church (Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
In 1696-1700, a church and a monastery for the Capuchin Order from Italy were built on today’s Loretańska Street. The construction is baroque, yet in the most modest form imposed by the strict rule of the order... »
Carmelite Church (Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
When Pope Urban VI established a new holiday – the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – in 1395, King Ladislaus (Władysław) Jagiełło and Queen Jadwiga decided to honour his decision by building a new church dedicated to the Visitation... »
Garbary and Karmelicka Street
The area situated behind Shoemaker’s Gate, known as Piasek, has belonged to princes and kings since the 14th century. Yet in 1363, King Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) sold the rights to it to the Municipality of Kraków... »
St Florian’s Church
The relics of St Florian, a hero of the Crusades, were brought to Poland at the end of the 12th century. The legend says that the cortege bringing them from Rome had to stop at the place where the church was later built as the oxen drawing the cart did not want to go any further... »
Academy of Fine Arts
Today’s Academy began with the Chairs of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture that were separated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in 1818-1819. Having become an independent seat of education in 1873, it operated as the School of Fine Arts, and had Jan Matejko... »
Grunwald Monument
The commemoration of the anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald is connected to the unveiling of the monument, which was the last of the patriotic ceremonies organised in Kraków from the mid-19th century to the outbreak of the first world war... »
Matejki Square
As late as the 1870s, today’s Matejki Square was still connected to the Rynek Kleparski, forming together a single huge open-air market. It was divided into two by the impressive building of the Academy of Fine Arts built in 1877-1879... »
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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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Kazimierz
The church is a foundation of King Casimir the Great. It is an excellent example of the Gothic sacred architecture that we owe to a bishop’s anathema... Even... »
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Sacrum Profanum 2010: Nordic Pantheon
Although this year’s Sacrum Profanum will transport us to Europe’s cooler regions, there will be no shortage of hot moments as well. The stars of this Nordic version of the festival will be Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson and the Icelandic band múm.... »
