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The Main Market Square, the Cloth Hall, Wawel, Kazimierz – Kraków’s most famous heritage at your fingertips! See how beautiful our city is.
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See the famous heritage sites, marvel at the most cherished treasures and discover Kraków’s most interesting nooks and crannies.
See what attractions are waiting for you – fall in love in our city!
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Kraków boasts a plethora of cultural events – see what we have selected for you.
Monday, December 8, 2025 - Sunday, March 1, 2026
The Kraków nativity scene is unique in the world. It’s a slender, multi-storey, tower-like, richly decorated building, constructed of lightweight, non-durable materials. It’s characterised by an accumulation of fancifully transformed and interconnected miniaturised elements of...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - Saturday, January 24, 2026
Allegedly, the impetus came from Baron Fürnberg, who was looking for entertainment with music in his remote Weinzierl Castle and commissioned a young composer, Joseph Haydn, to write a piece for four amateurs. The new genre met with considerable interest in the music-practising homes of the...
Saturday, January 24, 2026, 6:00 PM
A symphony penned by an 18th-century Warsaw composer and printer, kapellmeister of St John Collegiate Church; Viennese Romanticism in the songs by Franz Schubert (sung by tenor Patrick Kabongo); and, at last, work full of dance rhythms written by a French composer who was expected to follow his...
Saturday, January 24, 2026, 6:30 PM
On 3 February 1896, two days after the premiere at Teatro Regio in Turin, the Roman newspaper “La Stampa” reported, “Just like La bohème does not leave much impression in the mind of the listeners, it will not leave much impression on the history of our lyric...
Monday, January 26, 2026, 7:00 PM
There were probably snowdrifts on the streets (no one heard of snowploughs back then!) and the icy wind was reaching every corner of the unheated churches. Maybe so, but I still envy those citizens of Leipzig who, on 25 December 1734, heard for the first time the joyful Jauchzet, frohlocket! ...
Sunday, February 1, 2026, 12:00 PM
The Espresso Concerts cycle of Sinfonietta Cracovia orchestra, inaugurated in 2022, has been evolving. Nowadays, the cycle appears in various Kraków museums and historic venues and from 2024 the pure string sounds of the Sinfonietta Cracovia orchestra will be complemented by other...
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23 October 2024
“Free November in royal residences” is an annual campaign organised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The Wawel Royal Castle, as always, joins in this initiative by...
8 August 2024
Summer in the city and by the... water? In Krakow this is possible! We will discover the delights of swimming pools, bathing areas and beaches in our city and its immediate surroundings. First, we...
