65th Singing Lesson
Saturday, August 5, 2017, 7:00 PM
Triumphant legionary songs, military marches and ribald refrains resound at the Mały Rynek on 5 August. During the 65th Singing Lesson, we are celebrating the anniversary of the 1st Cadre Company marching out of Kraków, symbolising the start of Poland’s road to independence after the First World War. As usual, the assembled audience is joined by artists from Loch Camelot – and help is at hand from free songbooks.
Small Market Square
Small Market Square
In the Middle Ages, the air over this charming corner was suffused with the aroma of meat and fish, and later also of printing ink!
The Small Market Square provided ancillary space for the Main Market Square from the Middle Ages onwards. It was here that goods that did not look or smell great were sold: mostly meat and fish. The trade (later also with previously enjoyed goods, fruit, etc.) disappeared from here with the advent of modern technology: early in the 20th century a tramline to the Main Market Square crossed the centre of its smaller partner.
Most worthy of mentioning of all the houses standing on the Small Market Square is Szoberowska House (No. 6) with a late Gothic façade. It is here that the first Polish paper, Merkuriusz Polski, was printed in 1661. Malicious tongues add that it was published for not much longer than six months before the publishers moved to Warsaw, yet no one dares to doubt that no other city but Kraków is the cradle of the Polish media.
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