Lajkonik Parade

more Lajkonik Parade is an old traditional Polish celebration which takes place every year on first Thursday after the Corpus Christi. The main hero of this event is Lajkonik – a rider with long beard, dressed in oriental clothes and riding on an artificial horse. He always passes the traditional route from Zwierzyniec Quarter to Main Market Square.[Concerts & Festivals]

Pierogi Festival (Dumplings Festival)

more Pierogi Festival in Krakow was first organized in August 2003 and lasted 2 days. Each year it was becoming more and more popular and now it lasts sometimes for even five days. It is still organized every August around 14th – 16th of the month which corresponds with the Catholic Feast of the Assumption.[Concerts & Festivals]

International Soup Festival

more It is the only festival of this kind in Poland. It was first organized in Krakow in May 2002 and as it turned out to be successful one, since then it is held annually, always in May. It is kept in form of competition for the title of “best soup of the year” and of course public is invited to take part in sampling and having fun while tasting different types of soups.[Concerts & Festivals]

International Festival of Street Theatres

more Every year in July, Festival of Street Theatres in Krakow is attended by many theatre groups from all over the world, mostly from European countries. Usually it takes place in the middle of July.[Concerts & Festivals]

Jewish Culture Festival

more The Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow is one of the most important and largest events of its kind in the world. The First Festival took place in 1988 and its program focused on a scholarly conference on the encounter between two cultures, Jewish and Polish. It was a modest occasion but it turned out to have enormous significance, considering the boldness of the subject matter, upon which the communist authorities of the day looked askance.[Concerts & Festivals]

Wianki Festival

more History of the Wianki festival goes back into pagan times. Before Christianity dominated Poland, in pagan tradition day of 24th June each year was a day of fertility celebration called Kupala Night. Today it is only a music festival, but its characteristic feature is that it always takes place on the bank of Vistula river, right next to the Wawel Castle.[Concerts & Festivals]

Juwenalia Students Festival

more Besides Jagiellonian University, in Krakow there are many other important and big universities/academies which make the city most important educational centre in Poland. Total number if students living in Krakow exceeds substantially number of 100 thousand. Every year, usually during the second weekend of May, students in Krakow have their big festival called Juwenalia.[Concerts & Festivals]

Misteria Paschalia Festival

more The Misteria Paschalia Festival is one of the most important classical music events in Poland. It takes place annually in Krakow since 2004 around Easter time. During 8 days of festival, you can hear world famous artists who perform here classical music concerts focused on religious character of Easter.[Concerts & Festivals]

Pod Baranami

more Kino Pod Baranami is situated in the heart of Krakow, at the Main Square. It is located in a Palace called Pod Baranami (Under the Rams) which is one of the grandest palaces in town. Its three theaters offer cozy atmosphere and good movies – and one of its focuses is European cinema.[Cinemas]

Multikino

more Multikino is one of the biggest networks of cinemas in Poland. It belongs to Polish company ITI Group which also operates on media market.[Cinemas]

Cinema City

more Cinema City International is the largest multiplex cinema theatre operator in Central and Eastern Europe. Company is based in Israel. This modern network operates many cinemas across Poland including of course Krakow.[Cinemas]

Ars

more Ars cinema was opened in 1995 in the same tenement where once existed older cinema called “Kino Sztuka”. Today’s Ars cinema is not a big one, but perfectly located, right next to the Main Market Square.[Cinemas]

Kijow

more Kijow is a modern cinema, located off the Old Town area but still close to the centre, right next to Cracovia Hotel. It has 2 halls: big one Kijow Centrum and smaller one Kijow Studio.[Cinemas]

Stary (Old) Theatre

more Old Theatre in Krakow is really old. First performance took place here in 1781 and it was a French comedy. By the end of the 18th century this theatre raised almost to the name of national theatre. During the 19th century it performed across European capitals and gained fantastic fame.[Operas & Theatres]

Ludowy Theatre

more Ludowy Theatre, in English 'The People's Theatre', is one of the most famous in Krakow and definitely number one of its kind in Nowa Huta, the former communists-planned city founded near Krakow in 1949. The Ludowy Theatre started its performances in 1955 and has been maintaining high artistic quality of its works until today.[Operas & Theatres]

Slowacki Theatre

more The theatre has been continuously staging plays since 1893. It is one of the most famous and distinguished Polish theatre scenes. The edifice, designed by Jan Zawiejski, is ranked among the most valuable monuments of theatre architecture in Europe. There is an inscription of its façade: “Krakow for the National Arts”.[Operas & Theatres]

Krakow Philharmonic

more The building was completed in 1931 as Catholic House according to the design by Jozef Pokutynski. The main initiator of the building was Prince Adam Cardinal Sapieha. The initiators of the building were guided by a famous building of a similar use - Maison du Peuple in Brussels designed in 1897 by Viktor Hort.[Operas & Theatres]

Panga Pank Theatre

more Panga Pank Theatre has been established by Anka Wierzchowska Wozniak and Lukasz Wozniak in 2003. The name comes from a certain beautiful place in Estonia. Theatre is in constant collaboration with Stary Theatre in Krakow, TR Warszawa and K. Warlikowski’s Nowy Teatr in Warsaw.[Operas & Theatres]

Krakow Opera

more The Krakow Opera, established in 1954, has been proving its importance from season to season, thanks to the excellent quality of its artistic endeavours. Throughout the years, the Opera has worked with some of the world’s and Poland’s most outstanding artists, including the conductors:[Operas & Theatres]

Mumerus Theatre

more Theatre Mumerus, which was founded in 1999 by Wiesław Hołdys, is an association who has gathered together professional actors, directors, writers, musicians and painters. This is a NGO (Non-Governmental and Non-Profit Making Organisation).[Operas & Theatres]

Groteska Theatre

more The Groteska Puppet, Mask and Actor Theatre in Krakow is one of the earliest and the most renowned puppet theatres in Poland. It was founded in 1945 by outstanding theatre artists Zofia and Wladyslaw Jarema - stage directors and pioneers of the modern concept of puppet art and artistic theatre in post-war Poland.[Operas & Theatres]

Cricoteka Theatre in Krakow

more Cricoteka, Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor was founded by Tadeusz Kantor as early as in 1980, at first as the Centre of Cricot 2 Theatre at 5, Kanonicza Street (now the seat of the Archives of the Centre).[Operas & Theatres]

Bagatela Theatre

more Bagatela Theatre is located at the corner of Karmelicka and Krupnicza Streets in the very centre of Krakow. Theatre was opened in 1918 by Marian Dabrowski – famous publisher in Krakow. After modernization in 1938 it became most elegant theatre in the city.[Operas & Theatres]