Krakow's Regular Culture Events
There are over fifty culture festivals in Krakow
every single year. Some of them have been held
for decades, some are relatively fresh calendar
entries. Among the most prestigious such events count the
Festival of Polish Music, the ‘Music in Old
Krakow International Festival, the Krakow Film
Festival, and the International
Print Triennial.
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music
The city resounds with music of every kind. Its lively
club scene is divided between hip-hop, house, funky,
techno, traditional rock and still more traditional
jazz. And demanding audience may choose among frequent
concerts and recitals of classical music.
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Theater
Krakow features prominently on the theater map of
Europe. Its legendary National Stary Theater
counts among the continent’s best companies of
players. As the rest of the city's repertory theaters
it runs several playhouses of varied capacity.
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Opera
in Krakow
Krakow Opera House, built in
2008, contains three auditoriums that are
the most
popular venue
for opera, operetta, and ballet shows in the city.
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Krakow
Festivals
Hardly a month passes in Krakow without some
time-honored occasion for common festivities or
colorful ceremony. Krakow residents have their own unique way of
celebrating Christmas,
carnival,
Easter
etc. The city is also famous in Poland for its many
spectacular festivals unknown elsewhere, such as the
wild Lajkonik parade (see the picture above).
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Folk Traditions
Krakow region has always been rich in colorful folk traditions, handed down from
generation to generation, with almost every village cultivating its own set of
time-honored customs. Nowadays, as new lifestyles spread, some ancient practices
are dead but many flourish.
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Museums
in Krakow
Krakow has the best collections in Poland, and some
of its treasures are the envy of every museum in the
world.
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National
Museum in Krakow
Poland's biggest museum and the country's oldest national
museum. Its diverse
collections total about 780,000 items in 10 branches, 11 galleries, 21
departments, and two libraries.
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Museum
The
Czartoryskis Museum dates back
to 1801 and is Poland's oldest museum. It displays the
country’s most valuable collections of art, ancient handicrafts, and
memorabilia connected with historical figures. The museum is renowned
for Leonardo da Vinci’s
famous portrait ‘Lady with an Ermine’.
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Fine
Arts in Krakow
Visual arts have always been Krakow’s forte. Over centuries the city
bred outstanding painters and sculptors or lured them to settle within
its walls.
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Art Galleries
Numerous Krakow art galleries sell a
wide selection of paintings, an assortment of prints
and occasionally sculptures. Prices for works of
contemporary Polish artists, notably the younger ones,
are still fairly competitive.
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Krakow University
The Jagiellonian University, Poland’s oldest, with its
6,700 faculty and 42,000-plus students is the
country’s second largest institution of higher
education and the most distinguished one.
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Jagiellonian
Library
Poland's oldest library boasts five million volumes, while its unique collection of
medieval manuscripts and ancient books contains
tens of thousands priceless items.
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Cinema
in Krakow
The
city's multiplexes and other playhouses show Hollywood
motion pictures as well as Polish films and other
European productions including auteur
movies.
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