Krakow
Easter market 2024 to last through April 1st.
/2024-03-23/ This year the
Easter
market in Krakow takes place in the Rynek Glowny central square till Monday
April 1st. Visitors may enjoy
a wide range of the Polish traditional
Easter decorations. Also, varied foods and village handicrafts are on sale. Stalls open at 10 am and close at 9 pm.
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Coming elections.
/2024-03-14/ Poland's local government elections are
scheduled to take place throughout the country on Sunday,
April 7th 2024 and Krakow is no exception. A new era is dawning for the city as its incumbent five-term mayor,
Professor Jacek Majchrowski, don't seek reelection this time. The Krakow voters will
vote in a new mayor for a five-year term and cast votes for
the lists of candidates to the city council, to the
provincial assembly, and to the district councils as well.
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Krakow guide
New Year's free events in Krakow.
/2023-12-02/ The Krakow municipality has decided to dump open-air celebrations on New Year's Eve. Once famous alfresco New Year's revelry in the central square, with free-for-all pop concerts and fireworks displays, was cancelled in the years of the COVID-19 pandemics. Now the city's authorities have resolved to abandon the tradition for good.
Mark
Krakow
Christmas guide
The 2023 Festival of the Krakow szopka Nativity scenes.
/2023-11-15/ This year's 81st festival of the
Krakow Szopka nativity scenes takes place in the Rynek Glowny central
square on Thursday, December 7th, 2023. The event starts with a parade at noon. UNESCO has inscribed the tradition of building the Krakow szopka on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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Krakow Christmas market 2023.
/2023-10-10/ This year the
Christmas market in
the central square of Krakow
opens on Friday, November 24th to go on through
January 1st, 2024.
Stalls will sell Christmas decorations, sweets and other foods, handicrafts, gifts, etc. There are also live gigs planned. Admission is free of charge.
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Krakow All Souls Jazz
Festival in 2023.
/2023-09-21/ In 2023 the 68th edition of the All Souls Krakow jazz festival (Krakowskie Zaduszki Jazzowe) starts on Wednesday, October 25th and
this
Europe's oldest jazz festival ends on Sunday, October 29th, three days short of the All Souls Day. The festival program consists of one concert every night.
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Modern music festival in September, October, and November 2023.
/2023-08-23/ The 21st Sacrum
Profanum festival of contemporary classical music starts in Krakow
on Friday, September 8th to end on Sunday, November 12th, 2023. Its
program consist of nine concerts: one per night on September 8th, September 23rd, September 24th, October 20th, November 9th, November 10th, November 11th, and two on November 12th.
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Krakow Musical Autumn.
/2023-08-18/ The 10th Krakow
Musical Autumn is a five-day festival of
classical music organized in the Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street,
next to the Old Town central historic district, from
Sunday, October 15th through Wednesday, October 18th plus one more concert on Saturday, October 21st 2023.
Mark
Festival of the 20th-century classical music in September.
/2023-08-16/ Classical music festival called
Szymanowski/Poland/World
takes place in Krakow, with eight concerts between September 3rd and October 7th, 2023. Its program features music by Karol Szymanowski and his contemporaries. The festival is organized by the Krakow Philharmonics.
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Festival of classical music this August.
/2023-08-10/ In 2023 the 48th Music
in Old Cracow Festival
takes place as usual from August 15th through August 31st. It
consists of 12 live concerts, one per day except no concerts are planned for August 17th,
August 19th,
August 22nd,
August 24th,
and
August 26th. The historic churches of Krakow and the city's other architectural monuments serve as the venues for all concerts.
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Folk Art Fair
in the central square of Krakow,
August 7th thru 20th, 2023.
/2023-08-07/ The 47th Folk Art Fair in
Krakow takes place in the Rynek Glowny central square
from Monday, August 7th through
Sunday August 20th, 2023. The entry is free of charge. Visitors will find rows
of stalls selling
assorted traditional village crafts and arts such as
pottery,
embroidery, woodcarving, paintings, iron items etc. There are also planned some special
attractions and entertainments, notably gigs by
acts performing traditional village dances and songs, Polish as well as from other nations.
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2023 Summer Jazz Festival in Krakow.
/2023-07-01/
The 28th Summer
Jazz
Festival in Krakow consists of over 100 live concerts taking place from July 2nd through September 2nd, 2023 with several events on every day of July. As usual, the principal venue is Piwnica Pod
Baranami cellar club at 27 Rynek Glowny (Grand Square) where
jazz concerts are scheduled every night at 9 pm from
July 2nd through July 30th. The New Orleans Sunday falls on July 2nd with Krakow's jazzmen playing traditional jazz at pavement cafes of the Rynek Glowny central square from noon to 4 pm, followed by a parade from the central square to Plac Szczepanski square 5 pm to 6 pm and an open-air concert from 6 pm on.
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Lajkonik pageant.
/2023-06-07/ The Krakow
Lajkonik historic pageant takes place next Thursday, June 15th
2023. It starts in Senatorska street at noon to reach St. Norbert convent, Kosciuszki street, at
about 1.30 pm to proceed next
towards the Old Town. The colorful procession is expected to arrive
at
the Rynek Glowny central square about 8 pm where its culmination show may last for roughly two hours.
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63rd Krakow Film Festival.
/2023-05-29/
This year the Krakow Film Festival goes on from May
28th to June 4th. It consists of four separate contests, three of them international. Some 190 films from all over the world will be shown during the 2023 festival. Ever
since its birth in 1961 the Krakow Film
Festival has been confined to short films, i.e.
currently those lasting fifty minutes or less. The
main festival venue is the Kijow playhouse at 34
Krasinskiego street.
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Film Music Festival in Krakow in 2023.
/2023-05-25/ The 15th Krakow Film
Music Festival starts on May 23rd, ends May 30th, 2022.
Its concerts take place May 25th in
ICE Krakow Congress Center at 17 Konopnickiej street, May
26th in
Teatr Laznia Nowa playhouse at 25 os. Szkolne, May
27th
n
ICE Krakow Congress Center,
May
28th
n
ICE Krakow Congress Center,
and May 30th in
Tauron Arena Krakow at 7 Lema street.
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Krakow festival of the Polish classical music in July 2023.
/2023-05-24/ This year the program of the
19th edition of the
Festival of Polish Music in Krakow consists of seven classical music concerts, one per day, spread over July, namely from July 1st through July 29th, including every Saturday night. Tickets cost either 60 PLN or 50 PLN. All concerts start at 7 pm.
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Jewish Festival in Krakow in 2023.
/2023-05-20/ This year the 32nd Festival of
Jewish Culture in Krakow starts on Wednesday,
June 28th to end Sunday, July 2nd with varied
events in between as its program consists of concerts, workshops, lectures, public debates, tours of Jewish sites,
film screenings, and
a few exhibitions. The venues are concentrated in the small
historic Jewish quarter in the Kazimierz district of downtown Krakow.
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Crafts fair in Krakow central squares.
/2023-05-19/ The Crafts Fair goes on in the Old Town's
Rynek Glowny
central square till May 23rd. Some forty stalls are to sell
various traditional Polish handicrafts. Also, various artisans show their skills there.
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Mendelssohn Festival in Krakow.
/2023-05-02/ The 18th Felix
Mendelssohn Music Days in Krakow, an eight-day festival of classical music, take place May 5th
through May 12th, 2023. The festival consists of
eight chamber music concerts and recitals in the
Centrum Kultury Zydowskiej /Jewish Culture
Center/ at 17 Meiselsa street. Tickets cost 30 zlotys (PLN).
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Free concerts of classical piano music for four
hands.
/2023-04-05/ 7th Duettissimo! International
Piano Duo Festival
in Krakow goes on from Friday, April 14th through
Saturday, April 22nd 2023. Concerts
take place
in the
Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street and in the
Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street. The festival features pianists playing piano duets and
other classical music for four hands. Most of the festival events are free of charge.
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Free Baroque music now.
/2023-03-27/ The
27th
Krakow festival of Bach
music, called Bach Days, takes place from
Tuesday,
March 28th through Saturday, April1st 2023. The program features at least one concert
of the best Baroque music every day. Tickets for the first concert on March 28th cost 40 PLN but admission is free for other festival events in the Aula Florianka hall at
15 Sereno Fenna street.
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2023 Beethoven Easter Festival's events in Krakow.
/2023-03-21/ In 2004
the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter
Festival has been moved from Krakow to Warsaw, where most of its
concerts take place. Yet some events are organized in Krakow and this year the Krakow part of the Beethoven Easter Festival consists of
two concerts
in the Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street, March 23rd and March 30th plus a noon recital at
the Jagiellonian Library, 3 Oleandry street on March 24th.
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Cello music for free in March.
/2023-03-07/ A festival of music for violoncello,
called the Krakow Cello Spring,
starts on Sunday March 12th and next continues from Wednesday, March 15th through Saturday, March 18th, 2023. The 10th edition of the Krakow cello festival consists of five concerts, one per day. Admission to weekday concerts and the Saturday one is free of charge.
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Easter music festival in Krakow, April 2023.
/2023-02-25/ This year, as usual, the Misteria Paschalia Easter
festival of classical music takes place in Krakow
throughout Holy Week. It starts on Tuesday, April 4th
and will continue through Easter Sunday, April 9th with one more concert April 16th, 2023 when falls Easter in the Orthodox church. The festival
has attracted an array of Europe's
top early music ensembles and soloists. There is one concerts planned for every day, including Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. The festival venues include Krakow's architectural gems such as Saint Catherine's church and the subterranean Chapel of Saint Kinga in the
Wieliczka Salt Mine.
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2023 Easter market opens in Krakow March 30th.
/2023-02-20/ In 2023 the city's traditional
Easter
market in Krakow starts in the Rynek Glowny central square on
Thursday,
March 30th to go on through Monday, April 10th. Visitors will be able to enjoy
a wide range of Polish traditional
Easter decorations. Also, various foods and village handicrafts will be on sale. Stalls open at 10 am and close at 9 pm.
Kasia
Shanties festival in Krakow, February 2023.
/2023-02-06/ In 2023 the 42nd edition of
Shanties Krakow festival of sailor songs falls on the last weekend of February, namely
Thursday, February 23rd through Sunday, February 26th. The main festival venue is Kijow.Centrum playhouse at 34 Slowackiego avenue. An open-air free concert in Rynek Glowny central square starts at 2 pm on Saturday, February 25th.
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2023 Opera Rara festival.
/2023-02-04/ This year the Krakow festival Opera Rara
takes place February 16th through February 26th. Its program consists of just six opera shows and concerts featuring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s ‘Lucio Silla’
(concert version), Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri secular oratorio, and Antonio Vivaldi’s Il Tamerlano opera (concert version). The organizers have managed to line up some top European soloist singers specializing in early operatic works.
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