| East of Krakow | |
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| Country |  Poland |
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| City | Krakow |
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 50 ° 4 ′ 20 ″ N 20 ° 2 ′ 15 ″ E | |
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THE'Is of Krakow consists of several districts, the best known of which is Nowa Huta. It is located east of the old town and north of the Vistula. Nowa Huta has recently become one of the tourist destinations of Krakow as an example a post-communist district with very typical socialist realism architecture.
Understand
Story
Traces of occupation dating back two or three thousand years have been found. Pottery was produced there as well as bronze and iron objects. The area occupied by Nowa Huta was in the Middle Ages a fertile rural area. At VIe century, the Vistulas, one of the Polish tribes, erected a tumulus and a monastery was erected in XIIe century.
In 1946, Bolesław Bierut, then President of the Republic of Poland, later first secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party, was "offered" by Stalin the construction of a large metallurgical factory located near Krakow. Krakow was then the intellectual and academic center of Poland, and considered by Stalin as a conservative hotbed of resistance to communist ideas.
Construction work began in 1949.
Nowa Huta was originally intended to be an autonomous socialist model city, but in 1951 it was finally incorporated into Krakow, and became a new part of the city. All parts of it were built at the same time between the 1950s and 1960s: living quarters, town center, central square. The Lenin foundry was inaugurated on July 22, 1954. Renamed in 1990, it is now called the Tadeusz Sendzimir foundry and belongs to the Arcelor Mittal group.
For more than twenty years, Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, will defend the Catholics of this city, a model communist city, deprived of a place of worship. It supports the construction of a church by celebrating Christmas masses in the open air to promote the creation of a dignified place of worship for the workers. Paul VI even offered him a stone from the old St. Peter's Basilica.
The film The Marble Man by Andrzej Wajda shows the life of masons during the construction of Nowa Huta in the 1950s as well as the use of propaganda during the period of Stalinism.
Town planning
The original complex of apartment buildings is built around axes that radiate from the central square ((pl)Plac Centralny). The architecture of the blocks of the first apartments mixes the Renaissance style with Soviet realism. The buildings constructed from 1956 are Modernist (from this period an interesting example is the block called Swedish block at the address bone. Szklane Domy, 19c), while those built in the 1970s and 1980s are mainly plattenbau, a technique that uses prefabricated concrete slabs, a technique very often used in the Eastern Bloc. The first buildings in Poland which were constructed using a technique using large blocks and which later evolved into a technique plattenbau, can be seen at bone. Stalowe.
To go
By tram
Tram lines 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 22, 52 serve the east of the city from the center.
Circulate
To see
Museums
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- 1 Krakow History Museum - History of Nowa Huta District (Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa - Dzieje Nowej Huty) bone. Słoneczne 16,
48 12 425-97-75 – Exhibition on the history of Nowa Huta, before and after 1949. - 2 PRL Museum (Museum of the Polish People's Republic) bone. Centrum E 1 (In the building of the old Światowid cinema), 48 12 686 61 65
9 h - 15 h. – Museum is under construction so it is often closed, check the website before visiting. - 3 Army museum (Muzeum Czynu Zbrojnego) bone. Górali 23 Mon.- Fri. : 10 h - 15 h.
Free. – The WWII tank in front of the museum is one of Nowa Huta's symbolic monuments. - 4 Nowa Huta Cultural Center (NCK - Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury) al. Jana Pawła II 232
- 5 Manor Jan Matejko (Dworek Jana Matejki) ul. Wańkowicza 25 Fri. : 10 h - 14 h. 7 PLN. – Summer residence of one of the most famous Polish artists - Jan Matejko. Today a museum.
- 6 Aviation museum (Muzeum Lotnictwa) al. Jana Pawła II 39 (Czyżyny district) Tue.- Sun. : 9 h - 17 h. Free on Tuesday. – A museum made up of a new pavilion (good contemporary architecture) and a few hangars filled with more than two hundred gliders, planes, old helicopters. Among them is a collection of 22 extremely rare old plans that belonged to Hermann Göring. The museum is located on the grounds of the Rakowice-Czyżyny airfield, one of the oldest military airfields in Europe.
- 7 Experimental garden Polish Pilots Park, al. Pokoju (Czyżyny district), 48 12 346 12 85, e-mail : [email protected] 8 PLN, with reduction 5,5 PLN. – Named after the most famous Polish writer SF Stanisław Lem, the garden is a place where children (but not only them) can learn about optics, physics and astronomy freely using permanent facilities like the Newton's pendulum, gongs, whirlpools of liquids, etc. There is also a spherically shaped cinema with educational films.
FreeMonuments
- 8 Wanda Tumulus (Kopiec Wandy) – Built around 6th or 7th century for unknown reasons. Believed to be the burial place of the legendary Princess Wanda.
Churches
- 9 Church and Cistercian abbey of Saint-Venceslaus – Built in 1266 by Bishop Prandota for the Cistercians who came to Mogila at the invitation in 1220 of Duke Leszek the White and Bishop Iwo Odrowaz. The crossroads was founded by Casimir the Great in XIVe century. The interior was painted by Stanislaw Samostrzelnik, who was himself a Cistercian, and is considered the best painter of the Polish Renaissance. It also has beautiful stained glass windows and a late Gothic altar from 1514 by Szczodrowa. The Choir has beautiful Baroque portraits. Inside Stefan Żółkowski's early Baroque chapel you can admire the wonderful Gothic Cross of Mogiła. The facade is late Baroque.
- 10 Saint-Barthélemy Church (in front of the Cistercian abbey) – It is one of the oldest surviving examples of Polish sacred wooden architecture from the XVe century.
- 11 Church of the "Lord's Arch" – The church, built in the 1970s, is seen as a symbol of defiance of the Communist government of the day.
Do
- 1 Teatr ludowy (People's Theater) Osiedle Teatralne 34, 48 12 68 02 100
- 2 Teatr Łaźnia Nowa bone. Szkolne 25
- 3 Kino Sfinks (Cinema Sphinx) bone. Górali 5, 48 12 644 27 65 – one of the smallest, and quite forgotten, cinemas in Krakow. Movies usually arrive here a month after their premiere, but it's definitely a different experience than a multiplex.
- 4 Com-Com Zone ul. Ptaszyckiego 6 Pool Use the point as a decimal point, rooms, gym and sauna 20 PLN. – Sports center near the Hutnik stadium: training rooms, football fields, climbing wall, swimming pool, sauna.
To buy
- 1 Tomex Mon.- Sun. : 8 h - 18 h. – Probably the biggest bazaar in Krakow. It is located next to the Kocmyrzowskie roundabout in Nowa Huta. Food, clothes, electronics, a bit of everything.
- 2 Skarbnica Bookstore bone. Centrum C 1 – An old bookstore (over fifty years old) on pl. Centralny where you can find, among other things, books and guides on the Nowa Huta neighborhood.
Eat
- 1 Polnocny Bar bone. Teatralne 11 – Typical local milk bar.
- 2 Bar Na Żółto I Na Niebiesko bone. Teatralne 3 (entry from al. gen. W. Andersa) Pierogi: 6 - 10 PLN. – The name in blue and yellow is derived from a hit song from the 1970s. It is also the theme of interior design which is quite spooky. Still, the food (at the usual Polish price) is cheap and OK.
- 3 Stylowa bone. Centrum C 3, 48 12 682 11 10 – Located near the central square, it is the oldest restaurant in Nowa Huta (opened in 1956), and it is considered a "cult" restaurant by some. Renovated in the 2000s, but still has some "communist" looks. Very inexpensive compared to other high end restaurants in the old town.
Have a drink / Go out
- 1 Klub Kombinator bone. Szkolne 25, 48 692 84 84 00 open until midnight.. – coffee, beer, vodka and board games.
- 2 C-2 Południe Cafe bone. Górali 5 Mon.- Sun..
Housing
- 1 Dom Wycieczkowy PTTK ul. Bulwarowa 37, 48 12 644 08 63, e-mail : [email protected] from 22 PLN. – One of the cheapest accommodation options in the city but far enough from the center, 50 places in rooms with 4 and 6 beds. Shared bathrooms. Close to Nowa Huta lake and sports facilities. Old man.
- 2 Hotel Santorini ul. Bulwarowa 35b, 48 12 680 51 95, e-mail : [email protected] Double room 230 PLN. – Three stars. 27 rooms. Restaurant, bar, sauna. WiFi and free parking.
- 3 Hotel Centrum bone. Centrum E 12 (al. Jana Pawła II), 48 12 680 80 55, e-mail : [email protected] Double room 360 PLN. – Four stars. 28 rooms. Free WIFI, TV, AC, free breakfast between 7:00 and 10 h 00.
