„As with all culture, heritage as a cultural creation of the present, is fashion driven: new presents will constantly imagine new pasts to satisfy changing needs.”
WELCOME TO THE KRAKOW HERITAGE PORTAL!
No matter if you’re trying to find out more about your place of living or you’re planning to have a good time in one of Central Europe’s most remarkable historic cities, you’ve come to the right place.
On the portal, you will find inspirations for wandering and attentive walks around the historical corners of Krakow – from the Main Market Square to the Central Square and from the Krakus Mound to the modernist quarter in the area of Inwalidów Square.
Each virtual walk is both a story on its own and an invitation to read the city anew.
We don’t make a distinction between the Wit Stwosz Altarpiece, the exhibition of Krakow Cribs and historic bookshops, craftsmen’s workshops and markets – we follow trends and treat heritage as a constant change, a record of history consisting of both the glorious moments and the more difficult ones, the history of large communities and local micro-stories.
On this portal we also look at the various forms of heritage protection and the international organisations of which Krakow is a member.
Heritage is the space where the past meets the future – and it speaks to us here and now.
Enjoy your walks!
News
I see you, Kraków!
05.10.2023
On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the inscription of Krakow on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which falls this year, the City of Krakow, in cooperation with the International Cultural Centre, has prepared a unique, bilingual publication in which specialists and enthusiasts involved in the heritage of the city under Wawel Hill play the role of “collective narrator”.
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The Future of the Past. How Krakow celebrates 45th anniversary of its inscription on the World Heritage List?
25.08.2023
The 45th anniversary of Kraków being listed as one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites is the perfect opportunity to look back at how far our city has travelled since 1978. It also allows us to answer the question whether present-day Kraków is as ambitiously self-aware as it was almost half a century ago.
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“Black Art” – 550 years of printing in Poland
13.07.2023
In 1844, while moving one of the bookcases in the Jagiellonian Library, an inconspicuous sheet of paper slipped to the ground. Densely printed on one side in Gothic characters, it turned out to be the oldest known print in Poland.
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A city re-written, or The Krakow Modernism Route
27.06.2023
“A Guide to the Architecture of 20th Century Krakow” can be understood as an invitation to discover “our own” Krakow. The one outside the tourist brochures, where the daily life of its inhabitants actually takes place.
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Conservation of the Veit Stoss Altarpiece with Europa Nostra Award 2023!
13.06.2023
The European Commission and Europa Nostra today announced the winners of the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2023. This year, 30 exceptional heritage achievements from a total of 21 countries were honoured with this highest European award. This year’s laureates in the Conservation category include the Veit Stoss Altarpiece at St Mary’s Basilica in Krakow.
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Through Krakow to Central Europe
28.03.2023
There is much more than a geographical fact hidden in the simple observation that Krakow is a similar distance from Warsaw as it is from three other Central European capitals – Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava.
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Turning to the local
28.03.2023
Could the antique-book shop in the old pharmacy on Zwierzyniec be a place as worthy of mention in guidebooks as the nearby Talowski townhouses, or the annual indulgence at Emaus?
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International organizations
