Grzegorz Floryański – Zwiedzanie Krakowa

Get to know means to understand – Krakow Market Square Underground Museum

Grzegorz Floryański — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:49:15 +0000

Kraków’s Main Square literally hides a huge attraction – the museum situated beneath the Cloth Hall! This is certainly one of the most modern and most interesting exhibitions in Poland. Its opening was the culmination of five years archeological excavations, which brought out a lot of really surprising discoveries. Museum is extremely inventive – a multimedia exhibition shows the history of the Kraków’s Market Square and the city, as well as the daily life of its inhabitants since early Middle Ages. The underground tour is a fantastic adventure for the whole family! Explore Krakow Market Square Underground Museum with us!

Krakow Market Square Underground Museum

Visiting the Museum means a journey to the past reality ‘frozen’ over the centuries under many layers of earth. Tour through the underground Kraków (more precisely the exposure of Historical Museum of the City of Kraków – Rynek Underground permanent exhibition) is a unique chance to parts of the original cobbled medieval roads, a lot of everyday objects, burials from the huge 11^th-century cemetery, relicts of the clothes stalls and finally remains of houses burnt down during the dramatic Tatar invasion in 1241! Our imagination is supported by the most modern audiovisual technology – for example 3D holograms presenting transformations of the important Krakow buildings over centuries. Krakow Main Market Square underground tour has a huge educational value. It is an opportunity to find out – by tracking an interactive map of European trade routes – how important role the city was playing in the medieval trade network or what were the death causes in the 11th century! It is also a unique chance to check how our weight and height converted to the medieval system of measures!

Guided tour through the underground world presents us a fascinating image of Krakow’s history. So if you want to understand this beautiful city, You should start Your sightseeing from this amazing place (You will see other monuments in completely different light!). We highly recommend the museum to families with kids – little explorers definitely will not be bored!

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Get Gothic – medieval churches of Krakow Kazimierz

Grzegorz Floryański — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:37:15 +0000

Christian heritage of Kazimierz district is also impressive. There are two wonderful Gothic churches worth seeing – Corpus Christi Basilica with monastery of the Canons Regular of the Lateran and St. Catherine’s church in the custody of the Augustinian Order. Both are among the most astonishing Krakow churches. Their dates back to the reign of King Casimir the Great (14^th century)

The first one was built close to the Kazimierz Market Square (today’s Wolnica Square is just a part of the former medieval market) and was intended to be the main parish church of the newly founded city (it served the same function as the St. Mary’s Church in nearby Krakow). According to the legend, a miracle happened on the wetlands surrounding Kazimierz – a glowing monstrance robbed a few days earlier from the Church of All Saints by bandits-sacrilegious was found. Erection of the Corpus Christi Basilica was an act of thanksgiving for this miraculous event. Well, constructions of such a huge temples often lasted centuries. In this case, works took all the 15^th century, with a significant efforts of successive rulers from the Jagiellonian dynasty – Wladyslaw Jagiello, Casimir IV, his wife Elizabeth Rakuszanka, and their son John Albert. Basilica is an astonishing, monumental Gothic church towering above the district. Its interior is full of stunning monuments from different eras. What can be seen in the church of Corpus Christi? There is early modern equipment of extraordinary artistic value like the great 17th-century altar from the workshop of Baltazar Kuncz with a paintings of Thomas Dolabella, the mannerist stalls, monumental mausoleum of Stanislaw Kazimierczyk that has a distinctive mark of Renaissance art and finally a remarkable 18th century pulpit in the shape of a boat.

The second temple which is absolutely noteworthy is the wonderful St. Catherine’s church, built in the XIV-XV century. The legend says about Father Martin Baryczka, who denounced in his sermons King’s Kasimir promiscuity and was drowned in the Vistula River from the monarch’s command. Building a church near the place where the body of the martyr was found supposed to be an act of royal penance. Today’s church is a high, lightweight, solid construction which really impresses, despite it was never finished (missing towers, prematurely ended construction of the main body). This is probably the only church in Poland which suffered serious damage from two earthquakes! The temple has a beautiful, enormous interior full of wonders and curiosities (such as Baroque allegorical image of the macabre representation of death or monumental tombstone of nobile Spytko Jordan from the workshop of Santi Gucci). You should also take a look at the cloister of the monastery, where You can see outstanding, medieval and Renaissance frescos.

We will visit both of these magnificent temples during our Kazimierz guided tour. You cannot miss that! Discover the beauty of Krakow churches…

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Rugby Tours & Krakow Rugby Festival

Grzegorz Floryański — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:06:12 +0000

Krakow’s biggest rugby festival, Kracking Rugby Fest. or KRF takes place every year in the 3^rd weekend of June. Hundreds of rugby enthusiasts come to Krakow for an international weekend of parties and rugby 10s for the men and 7s for the women. KRF Package Deals to include unlimited beer & cider, accommodation, airport & pitch transfers, all meals including end of tournament Gala Dinner, live entertainment, pub crawls, skill & drinking games and cups, trophies & awards all in the mix.

Starts at 8pm on the Friday and finishes midnight on the Sunday with the fantastic atmosphere of social rugby on and off the field, so, choose your package deal to suit and meet teams from all over the world in Krakow’s buzzing city life but would you have the ovals to compete and complete it?

The KRF is held in Rkz (rfc) Juvenia Krakow’s stadium a 5 minute tram or bus ride from the city centre. The Juvenia rugby team nicknamed The Dragons (Smoki) play in Poland’s top flight rugby division called Ekstraliga. The club itself was founded in 1906 initially with football and other sports like volleyball and swimming although rugby was included it was not until 1973 that the sport of rugby became a registered league club and since then the club has continued to progress to reach the top level Ekstraliga. In recent years Juvenia Krakow has nurtured a prolific grassroots program which currently has over a 100 young players of all ages both boys and girls. The U.19 team won the silver medal as a finalist in the prestigious Dubai 7s tournament in 2019 and 6 of the Juvenia juniors have been included in the Polish junior national squad with 4 Juvenia seniors called up to play for the national team. Also the women’s rugby has made its presence felt with the Juvenia Krakow Kobiety (ladies) and play in the equivalent Women’s Ekstraliga 7s with the captain Magda Korona taking on the role of assistant coach of the U.18 Polish national team as well in 2020.

The KRF in conjunction with Juvenia Krakow was first introduced in 2016 and proved to be highly successful with the visiting teams bringing that all essential rugby spirit and styles of play which was quickly absorbed by Juvenia’s players and management, so much so that Juvenia now has been able to strengthen the squad with non-Polish players joining as a result of the KRF tournaments.

The first ever KRF Champion Winners was a team from the University of Nottingham, (Eng) and the subsequent year, 2017 saw West of Scotland RFC from Burnbrae in Scotland crowned champions. In 2018 the KRF introduced women’s 7s to coincide with the men’s tournament and this prompted massive interest with teams coming from as far away as UAE, the eventual winners were the magnificent Hampstead Ladies WRFC from London, (Eng) as inaugural women’s champions and the men’s team from Dubai, Barrelhouse RFC take the KRF Champions title. Then in 2019 with the KRF gaining more popularity and interest throughout the rugby grapevine we saw teams from all over the world descend on Krakow’s biggest tournament plus a travelling group of referees, the Bristol Referees Association (UK) adjudicating the matches. This time the Juvenia Krakow Kobiety earned the title of KRF Women’s 7s Champions and the splendid Mighty Bovs RFC from Edinburgh in Scotland narrowly defeating Juvenia Krakow RFC in the men’s 10s final to become KRF Champions.

The Krakow Rugby Festival is the tour your team has been waiting for, non-stop entertainment, parties and, of course, competitive and stylish rugby. Although the KRF and its tournament itinerary runs from a Friday evening until midnight Sunday many clubs or teams like to extend their stay, so, we offer extra opportunities to experience Krakow and its attractions, especially if you’re staying for 3 or more nights. When it comes to cultural tours or activities we suggest 3 of the best below which are a “must”:

Wieliczka salt mine tour

This particular mine has over one million visitors a year. Once again a morning departure is advised to see everything properly. Although you can also hire the underground caverns for celebration parties and even sleep there. There are 2 types of tours on offer, the Tourist or The Miner Tour, on this one you are dressed and equipped as a miner then you begin the descent into the mine with its underground lakes and grottos with sculptures and recreations of how salt was mined through the ages. Salt played a very important part in daily life in bygone times, used as currency or to help make food last longer for example. The highlight of the tour is St. Kinga’s Chapel, everything you see, touch or stand on is or was carved from rock salt, even Da Vinci’s Last Supper is reproduced but totally carved in rock salt. The 5D interactive museum room is a truly magic experience. Only 2% of the mine is open to the public but you will have to walk a minimum of 4km viewing it. The mine reaches a depth of 327m but visitors do not go below 135m. One interesting fact, the Graduation Tower at the mine is a health spa in the sense that spending some time in it the air is purified by the salt and aids people with breathing problems or allergies. There is a lot to be said for salt!

Auschwitz/Birkenau tour

Oświęcim which is the Polish name for this city was the chosen place for a concentration camp to hold, originally, Russian prisoners of war. Approximately 10,000 soldiers were interned there and not very many survived. Later, the camps were used for holding Jewish, Roma and anyone else not to the liking of the Nazi regime. Today, the Auschwitz/Birkenau Memorial is a World Heritage Site and is a stark reminder of the horrific crimes committed there for all humanity to reflect upon. Auschwitz/Birkenau tour

Krakow sightseeing…on board the Partybus ! (https://luab.org/en/krakow-sightseeing-by-party-bus/ ).

Other than the above you can also try party river boat cruises, white water rafting or visit the Krakow shooting range – you can book this and even more sports and fun activities with Krakow Stag Do Specialist.

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MICE Poland – a place that has it all

Grzegorz Floryański — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 11:42:12 +0000

When it comes to MICE planning there is a number of factors that have to be taken into account in the process. Possibly, one of the key aspects is the very location. For MICE purposes Poland may turn out to be your sweet spot. With a diverse geography it offers a wide range of locations from pure and untouched areas of Bieszczady in the South-East, Zakopane at the foot of the Tatra Mountains, historic Krakow, business centres of Warsaw, Poznan and Wroclaw to Poland’s Lake District in the North-East and sea-side resorts up North. The list of possibilities is endless. Whether you would like to host your event in the mediaeval castle, a residence by the lake or in a modern, state of the art conference centre Poland has it all. A perfect location combined with a plethora of services and activities of the highest standard guarantees that each and every MICE undertaking in Poland is your success.

Warsaw MICE

Warsaw offers a true professional vibe of the capital city and a sense of a grand, contemporary business centre. This being said, you may rest assured and be certain of a top-notch quality of services provided together with meticulously thought through design of meeting spaces, latest equipment and a competent assistance of the local staff. A wide range of option allows you to choose from a number of venues of all styles and sizes. The PGE Narodowy stadium can host meetings for up to 2.100 people and events for up to 72.900 people, while The View will leave your guests stunned by the 360-panorama view over Warsaw and classic, elegant interiors of SixtySix and Mamaison Le Regina hotels will surely put a spell on them.

When considering Warsaw as you next MICE destination you will surely appreciate its convenient location on the map and the simplicity of the logistics of getting there. Especially with Warsaw Chopin International Airport offering plentiful direct flight from most major cities all around the world.

However, if your meeting is slightly more informal or you would like to avoid being restricted by the city limits, nevertheless keep the high quality and business atmosphere nearby Jachranka offers a more relaxed setting, closer to nature, yet still at the highest professional level.

Krakow MICE

With its rich history and touristic values Krakow is a perfect MICE spot when you would like to impress your attendees with both your event’s content and the feel of the city. It offers a great deal of various meeting locations from modern conference centres to those representing city’s past like an industrial Stara Zajezdnia in an old tram depot conveniently adapted to up-to-date standards. The prime example of the former is EXPO Krakow conference centre, which offers up to 14.000 square metres of useable space with capacity of up to 5.000 people and 700 parking spots. You will also find an open-air exhibition area and restaurant open during events. Krakow offers a whole array of options for MICE purposes and you will most certainly find a venue that suits your needs just right, regardless if it is a small, private party of just a few or a grand event of tens of thousands of people in Tauron Arena.

Nearby Krakow Balice Airport is a major point on Europe’s flight grid and, therefore, offers numerous convenient domestic and international flights.

Krakow provides a great opportunity to enrich your programme with countless attractions for the participants. You might focus on the touristic aspects, such as world-renowned Wieliczka Salt Mines or Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wawel Castle or Krakow’s historic Old Town. However, Krakow is also one of the best places on the globe for all-night fun with myriad of cafés, pubs and some of the best restaurants you can think of. A labyrinth of narrow streets of Krakow’s Old Town provides for a guaranteed all-night entertainment.

A helpful hand

Why don’t you consider Poland for your next event location and find out for yourself with a little guidance from the local specialists. ITS Poland, a long-established DMC and MICE agency in Poland, with its helpful and professional staff will help you choose the right location, a captivating itinerary and will keep a close eye on the smooth and carefree execution of the programme.

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