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16th-century Renaissance Cloth Hall amid
Krakow's central
Grand Square shelters
numerous stalls with souvenirs of every kind.
Gift
Ideas in Krakow
Krakow
souvenirs trade concentrates at the focal Grand Square (‘Rynek
Glowny’), notably in its central
16th-century Renaissance Cloth Hall ('Sukiennice')
where countless stalls and novelty shops sell a
wide assortment of gifts and keepsakes. It is
positively the buyers’ market and supply
closely matches demand from Krakow visitors, even
if some merchandise, e.g. Soviet memorabilia, may
seem out of place. And please note that better deals usually are
to be found in gift shops situated beyond the central
square.
Traditional
souvenirs of Krakow.
Customary
Krakow souvenirs have included for decades: dolls
clad in the Krakow region’s characteristic folk
costume, the costume itself or just its single
items (e.g. heavy strings of red coral beads,
male four-corner red cap with a peacock tail
plume), peacock tail feathers, gingerbread hearts
with multicolor icing, and miniature replicas of
the famous wooden Wawel Heads.
Gifts
most popular with visitors to Krakow.
Foreigners
usually snap up such trophies as carved chess
sets, amber
jewelry, replicas of the Polish
ancient weapons, wicker baskets, and views of
Krakow landmarks (paintings, prints, embossments,
etc.) besides various bric-a-brac.
Krakow's
quality souvenirs.
Choosier
shoppers should look for articles of folk
handicraft, such as needlework, pottery, wooden
toys, metal-works or colorful blankets; as well
as works of village artists, mostly pious
sculptures. Those bent on something very
Krakow-like may opt for a miniature version of
the famous Krakow
szopka nativity scenes.
At the same
time genuine works of
contemporary art are true bargains in Poland and,
who knows, a piece or two may turn an investment
someday.
Krakow's
selected gift shops:
Any
following information has been provided by respective establ ishments
on their sole responsibility.
Ksiegarnia Hetmanska
Address: 17 Rynek Glowny (central square) by St. Adalbert church
and Cloth Hall. Opening hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and
Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sundays.
We offer rich choice of albums, maps, guidebooks, fiction,
publications concerning philosophy, art, history, and religion.
Expanded section with literature in foreign languages is
particularly noteworthy – books in English, German, French,
Italian, Spanish, etc. We recommend also puzzles, toys,
postcards and stamps.
While shopping you can admire the original historic interiors
since the place occupied by Ksiegarnia Hetmanska – vast Gothic
hall with diagonal-buttress ceiling and keystones embellished
with heraldic and figurative sculpture – dates from the second
half of the 14th century. We invite!
Souvenirs
- Pamiatki
Address: Grodzka 33. Fine place at the Royal Road where one
finds wide range of Krakow souvenirs and articles of applied
art besides such visitor necessities as guidebooks, maps, and
postcards. The place’s specialty is huge selection
is of Angels – of wood, plaster, clay, metal, glass,
salt pulp. Souvenirs made in Krakow. T-shirts, dolls in
traditional costumes, pottery, hand-painted plates, Krakow
shawls, ceramic figurines of Krakow's symbol - the Wawel
dragon
Open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekends.
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The city’s central Old Town
historic district, turned into a pedestrian
precinct, teems with stores of all sorts.
Buying
amber in Krakow
Enrich yourself with a first-rate work
of art at a very reasonable price.
Krakow
Foodstuffs
Tips on getting Krakow's bread and
butter as well as other dairy products, fruits,
vegetables, meat, seafood, etc.
Buying
real estate in Krakow
You can still get property cheap in
Krakow. But with $ a couple of millions you may
have a centuries-old palace.
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