Magical Power of Bouquets 2019

Thursday, August 15, 2019, 12:30 PM

  • Thursday, August 15, 2019, 12:30 PM
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Cornflowers, campanulas, chamomile, linden branches… Who will arrange the most beautiful posy? The Magical Power of Bouquets competition is held for the tenth time on 15 August. On the festival of Assumption of Mary, the Small Market Square will be filled with aromatic flowers and herbs and broad smiles of the participants, while the stage resounds with music. Things will be colourful, fragrant, magical! The event forms a part of this year’s Cracovia Sacra Night.

(Izabela Osiadły, “Karnet” monthly)

For whom: for children, for seniors, for families
Other: open air event, free admission, acceptable for people with disabilities

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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