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Akcja sadzenia drzew w Parku Krakowian, maj 2017 r. / MICHAŁ ŁEPECKI / AGENCJA GAZETA /

The City Starts to Breathe

Piotr Kozanecki
It was the last moment! In 2019, when people began to be really afraid of the effects of climate change, the green revolution got going in Kraków once and for…
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A Tartar on Horseback

The Lajkonik – a rider on a wooden horse, carrying a mace and wearing a crescent-topped pointed hat – is among the most popular symbols of Kraków.
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The Third Bugle Call

Krzysztof Story
Every year, Kraków is visited by 13 million tourists. Most of them go to see the Market Square. This is now their domain and the residents are moving out.
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The Wawel Dragon

The oldest Kraków legends written down at the beginning 13th century by the Bishop of Kraków and historian of Poland, Wincenty Kadłubek, tell of a ferocious…
To mark the centenary of Polish independence in 2018, Anna (mother) and Rozalia (daughter) Malik created a nativity scene with female figures fighting for a free Poland / / GRAŻYNA MAKARA

Tinfoil in Your Blood

Doma Matejko
There is no better time than the beginning of summer to visit a Kraków family which makes nativity scenes, because that is when it all begins.
The Skarbnica bookshop, one of the oldest in Nowa Huta, closed in 2014 r. / /

Ennobled Barbarians

Renata Radłowska, Monika Golonka-Czajkowska
Monika Golonka-Czajkowska, ethnologist: The history of Nowa Huta is a complex one: an initially passive and thoughtless mass first became a victim and then an…

Kraków is Not Sarajevo

Marcin Żyła
The Traditional Rękawka Festival on the Krakus Mound, 23 April 2019 r. / / ARTUR WIDAK / NURFOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES

Looking Back at Krakus

Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
The Traditional Rękawka Festival is an example of how local heritage is shaped by practice. It showcases two versions of Kraków’s identity – one harking back…
The Grunwald Monument and the Mickiewicz (Market Square) and Kościuszko (Wawel Castle) Monuments are a coherent lecture on the history of Poland and Kraków /

Post-Glacial Landscape

Kazimierz S. Ożóg
Monuments to the Pope are an interesting study in a lack of inhibition and in consent to the surfeit, trashiness, and mindlessness of repetitive forms that are…
FOT. ANNA NIEDŹWIEDŹ /

Roses of a Saint

Until recently, few people in Kraków had ever herd of St Rita of Cascia (1381-1457).
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Bells and carry-ons

Magdalena Wadowska, Michał Kuźmiński
Magdalena Wadowska, ethnologist and journalist: A city must be noisy. Even the sacred are not always silent.
On Heroes of the Ghetto Square, 2014. / BEATA ZAWRZEL / REPORTER /

Feet on the Aryan Side

Monika Ochędowska
What should be commemorated and to what extent – where is the boundary? We will look for answers while taking a walk through the former Kraków ghetto.
The Poor Clares of Grodzka treat the sounds of the street as a call to pray for those whose voices they hear; photo from 2008. / FOT. GRAŻYNA MAKARA /

A Street Seen From the Other Side

Alicja Baczyńska-Hryhorowicz, Bartosz Arkuszewski, Alicja Soćko-Mucha, Kaja Kajder, Anna Niedźwiedź
INTERVIEW WITH a group of ETHNOGRAPHERS: During a recent study, Grodzka Street – one of the oldest, but also one of the most crowded tourist streets in Kraków…

Mapping Meanings

Anna Niedźwiedź
The “Maps of the City: Heritages and the Sacred within Kraków’s Cityscape” exhibition is a narrative about symbolic geographies, the ambiguity of the division…
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God of Four Faces

One of the many souvenirs from Kraków is a Światowid figurine. These figurines are miniature copies of a stone statue with four faces (the so-called Zbruch…
MUZEUM ETNOGRAFICZNE KRAKÓW /

Folk and National Costume

Kraków folk costume is simply the festive garb worn by peasants in the Kraków region. It later gained fame as the archetypical Polish national costume.
/ MAREK LASYK / REPORTER

Heritage Laboratory

Anna Niedźwiedź
What Kraków teaches us today is that memory and the references to the past which shape it are dynamic phenomena with many different trajectories, initiated by…
/ FOT. GRAŻYNA MAKARA

Boniecki: My Map of Kraków

Ks. Adam Boniecki
Much of my life has played out on the map of old Kraków, which always looks like a sophisticated stage set, whether under moonlight, at dawn, in the snow or…