Krakow Events
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50.059971 19.93264 | 1 Shanties: Krakow International Sailors' Song Festival Despite its land-locked location, Krakow hosts this international Sailors' Song Festival, also known as Shanties. The event celebrates all kinds of nautical song and poetry, with concerts of… | |
50.058378 19.910531 | 2 Over 1400 runners take part in the Cracovia Marathon, starting and finishing at Krakow's open grassland, Blonia. The 26-mile route heads east from the Old Town, through the districts of… | |
50.059971 19.93264 | 3 The Cracow Screen Festival fuses video installations with live music to create a three-day visual art and concert experience. The performances - from both Polish and international artists -… | |
50.059971 19.93264 | 4 During Krakow's Juwenalia festivities, students rule the streets with parties and parades. In a tradition dating back to medieval times, the mayor hands the students his keys to the city in… | |
50.059971 19.93264 | 5 Put your movie knowledge to the test over three days at Krakow's Film Music Festival. Musicians perform well-known tunes from the silver screen at venues across the city centre. | |
50.059971 19.93264 | 6 During Photomonth, Krakow's galleries, cafes, privately-owned flats and industrial spaces are filled with snapshots by renowned artists. With over 40 exhibitions and a parallel programme of… |  |
50.058378 19.910531 | 7 Two spacious concert tents take over Blonia, a grassy open space in central Krakow, for the Selector Festival. Live music fans arrive in their thousands for two days of gigs from top… |  |
50.059971 19.93264 | 8 Lajkonik, a procession through the Old Town, is a wonderful example of how Krakow celebrates age-old myths. Musicians, merrymakers, the young and the old follow a man dressed in Mongol costume… | |
50.059971 19.93264 | 9 Wianki - Floating of the Wreaths Wianki is a paean to midsummer at which huge ceremonial bonfires - sobotka - are lit along the banks of Krakow's great river Vistula and the inhabitants of the city float magical wreaths downstream. |  |
50.050526 19.942615 | 10 Krakow Jewish Culture Festival Krakow's former Jewish district, Kazimierz, is the centre of the Jewish Culture Festival, an annual fixture since 1988. During the event, synagogues, cafes, pubs and streets celebrate the… |  |
50.059971 19.93264 | 11 Crossroads Traditional Music Festival For three days each year the Crossroads (Rozstaje) Traditional Music Festival fills the streets of Krakow with folk music from the Carpathian Mountains of the Malopolska region. The concert… | |
50.059971 19.93264 | 12 The city's annual Pierogi Festival celebrates one of Poland's staple foods, the dumpling. Similar to ravioli, these semi-circular dough parcels are stuffed with fillings such as mashed potato… |  |
50.072143 19.98444 | 13 The Coke Live Music Festival returns to the airfield at Krakow's Aviation Museum (Muzeum Lotnictwa). The three stages of R&B, pop and hip-hop talent keep crowds entertained for the weekend. |  |
50.059971 19.93264 | 14 The Music in Old Krakow Festival was established by the early music ensemble Capella Cracoviensis in the 1970s. Over the years it has grown to become a 17-day event filled with concerts and… |  |
50.059971 19.93264 | 15 Krakow's annual Sacrum-Profanum Festival celebrates 19th and 20th-century music from a specially selected part of the world. This year, the focus is the UK, with concerts featuring music by… |  |
50.059971 19.93264 | 16 Poland's oldest jazz festival, Krakowskie Zaduszki Jazzowe, takes place every year around All Souls Day (2 November). Musicians from all over the world perform in bars, churches (look out for… | |
50.061326 19.937138 | 17 Thousands gather in Krakow's Main Square on New Year's Eve to celebrate with fireworks and live music. A New Year tradition in Krakow since the mid-90s, acts including Kate Ryan and Leona… | |
18 Every year since 1943, Krakow's Museum of History has celebrated Christmas with a competition for the most beautiful szopka (nativity scene or crib). All the cribs remain on display until… |  | |
19 Lovers of amber should pay a visit to Krakow's Old Cloth Hall, which stands in the main Market Square. Traders line the long narrow bazaar, while on the walls, emblems depict the families who… |  | |
20 The Market Square (Rynek Glowny) in the centre of Krakow's Old Town district is Europe's largest medieval square and has been the hub of the city since the 13th century. It contains some of… |  | |
21 Situated in the centre of Krakow, on the edge of the Old Town, Wawel Castle and its cathedral have experienced over 1000 years of both glorious and turbulent history. Together they now form… |  | |
22 Krakow's Museum of History is based in various buildings around the city, with the principal collection right in the centre of the Old Town at the Krzysztofory Palace on the market square. |  | |
23 Krakow is full of crowded, smoky, subterranean pubs, but nifty wine bar Vinoteka La Bodega is a relatively new addition to the city's drinking scene. It's a smart and friendly place to enjoy a… | ||
24 Tucked away on a Kazimierz side street, Alchemia is one of Krakow's most active and innovative clubs, offering a varied programme of live pop, rock, blues and jazz bands. A small cinema shows… | ||
25 In a city famed for its cool jazz spots, the subterranean Jazz Club U Muniaka, just off the main market square, stands out as one of the best. Top international acts regularly perform here… | ||
26 Galerie d'Art Naif sells "naïve" folk art, with a regularly-changing selection of paintings, wood carvings and ceramics by local artists. Many of the artworks follow a religious theme, harking… | ||
27 On the eastern edge of the Kazimierz district, this huge shiny shopping centre has the best selection of shops under one roof in central Krakow. Buy the latest European fashions… | ||
28 The Czartoryski Museum boasts Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with the Ermine and Rembrandt's Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638) in its permanent collection. Originally established in 1800, the… |  | |
29 The Galicia Jewish Museum, housed in a renovated former Jewish factory, opened to the public in 2004. In the main exhibition area is a photographic tribute to Poland's Jewish heritage during… |  |
