What is Krakow famous for? 10 unusual facts about the city in Poland. Krakow’s monuments, history, unique tourist attractions. Happy Skyscraper visited Krakow!
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Meet the Happy Skyscraper
The smiling traveler has been traveling around the world since 2012. Happy Skyscraper has so far visited 700 cities and been to 70 countries on all continents. In every place he visited, at least one picture was taken of him.
Happy Skyscraper is the symbolic seat of the most cheerful organization in the world – the Good Humor Party. The organization was founded in 2001 in Poland to make people around the world smile more often. The Good Humor Party was founded by a well-known Polish satirist and caricaturist Szczepan Sadurski. He is called one of the fastest caricaturists in the world, because he only draws one caricature for 100 seconds.
The easiest way to become a member of the Good Humor Party is to photograph the Happy Skyscraper from a public place – in front of a monument, a famous building, a board with the name of the city. You can easily find instructions on how to do this on the Internet.
Krakow is one of the cities in the world where Happy Skyscraper was photographed. So there is an opportunity to write some information about this city.
Krakow, a Historic City in Poland
1) What is Krakow famous for? What a question! If you believe the legend, the Wawel dragon used to live here. In Poland, everyone knows the legend of the dragon and the shoemaker Dratewka. But it’s just a fairy tale. So let’s move on to the facts, i.e. the next points of our list.
2) Krakow was the capital of Poland until the mid-sixteenth century, exactly for 499 years. In 1568, King Zygmunt II August moved the capital of Poland from Krakow to Warsaw. Theoretically, because the king’s court and offices were moved only 28 years later.
3) One of the oldest universities in Europe is the Jagiellonian University. It was founded in Krakow in 1364.
4) The Royal Castle on Wawel Hill was built at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries, when Kraków was already the capital of Poland. It is one of the symbols of Krakow, which is visited by many tourists, because there is an interesting museum in the castle.
Interesting Facts About Krakow
5) From the high tower of St. Mary’s Church, the trumpeter plays Hejnal Mariacki every day. St. Mary’s Church is a magnificent Catholic temple, a well-known architectural symbol of the city, which stands at the Krakow market square. It is known that the bugle call was played from the city’s defensive walls as early as 1392, although its melody was probably different than today. The famous Polish writer Bolesław Prus stayed in one of Krakow’s hotels. He wrote then that “some madman played the trumpet every hour from the tower”.
6) While in Krakow, you should eat obwarzanek krakowski. It is a type of bread, a local specialty known since the 14th century. His recipe was closely guarded, and an attempt to bake it outside Krakow was punishable by severe punishment.
7) The 15th-century Barbican is one of the most valuable monuments in Krakow. There are only a few such buildings in Europe.
8) Kosciuszko Mound is another symbol of Krakow. It was heaped with inhabitants in 1823 and is 30 meters high. In this way, the national hero – Tadeusz Kosciuszko was honored. This is one of the four mounds in this city. There are also: Mound of Wanda and Krak, Mound of Jozef Pilsudski and Mound of John Paul II, erected in 1997 in honor of the Polish Pope.
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You will find many travel and tourist curiosities on the SuperPolonia.info and Sadurski.com portals.