Plan for the next 12 years. Explore the guidelines for managing Krakow’s historic centre
04.09.2024
He have a pleasure to present you the “Guidelines for the Management of the Historic Centre of Krakow, a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the years 2023–2035”.
45 years after the inscription of the medieval city of Krakow, the Wawel Hill complex and Kazimierz with Stradom on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the City worked on detailed guidelines for the previously developed “UNESCO World Heritage Site Management Plan for the Historic Centre of Krakow.”
The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage requires each listed site to have an efficient management system that both preserves its outstanding universal value and allows for long-term sustainable development. By adopting the Convention, we committed to ensuring the protection, conservation, regeneration and promotion of the town centre as a place of special interest.
The document adopted by the Krakow City Council in December 2023 summarises the most important challenges and priorities related to the protection and management of the historic centre inscribed on the UNESCO list. On the Krakow Heritage portal we are pleased to present it to you in its entirety, in Polish and English.
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Plan for the next 12 years. Explore the guidelines for managing Krakow’s historic centre
04.09.2024
He have a pleasure to present you the “Guidelines for the Management of the Historic Centre of Krakow, a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the years 2023–2035”.
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The 2nd KOBED Heritage Security Congress
07.06.2024
Last Wednesday morning, passers-by passing the Wawel Royal Castle saw smoke enveloping one of the towers and an overhang. The exercises accompanying the 2nd KOBED Heritage Security Congress were, of course, just a practical test of the security procedures in place. However, in view of the ongoing armed conflict in our part of Europe, the readiness to react quickly in the event of a threat to priceless heritage assets is becoming essential for all guardians of monuments and responsible organisational units – and even us as possible bystanders.
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Our Great Ones’. Meeting about Marian Kornecki and the protection of wooden architecture in Malopolska
12.04.2024
We kindly invite you to a meeting dedicated to the memory of Dr Marian Kornecki (1924-2001), an outstanding art expert, defender and populariser of wooden architecture. It will take place on 22 April 2024 (Monday) at 6 p.m. in the Karolina Lanckorońska Hall at the Jagiellonian University Institute of Art History (53 Grodzka Street). The meeting will be enriched by the screening of fragments of archival films unknown to a wider audience.
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Ceremonial march of Jagiellonian University professors on the list of intangible cultural heritage
13.02.2024
The ceremonial march of Jagiellonian University professors inaugurating the academic year has been added to the list of intangible cultural heritage. This is yet another entry from the capital of Malopolska after the Cracovian nativity scene, the Krakow bobbin lace, the Lajkonik parade and Polish national dances – and proof of the strength and vitality of Cracovian traditions.
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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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