Former district of Krakow, Poland
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The eastern part of Kraków consists of several districts, most known of which is Nowa Huta. It is east of the Old Town and north of Vistula River. Nowa Huta is a destination for tourists as a post-communist district with very typical socialist realist architecture.
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Kopiec Wandy
Built around the 6th or 7th century for unknown reasons. Considered a burial place of a legendary princess Wanda.
Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa - Dzieje Nowej Huty
Shows temporary exhibitions about the history of Nowa Huta before and after 1949.
formerly the People's Republic of Poland Museum
An interesting look into Nowa Huta during the Communist era. Changing exhibitions on the top floor, civil defense shelter turned museum in the basement,
NCK - Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury
Home to many modern art galleries, most famously a large exhibition of works by renowned horror-surrealist Zdzisław Beksiński.
Dworek Jana Matejki
Summer residence of one of the most well known Polish artists - Jan Matejko. Today a museum.
Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego
A museum consisting of a new pavilion (good contemporary architecture) and few hangars filled with over two hundred historic gliders, aircraft, helicopters and more. Among them is a collection of 22 extremely rare antique planes that once belonged to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring of World War II infamy. The museum stands on the grounds of the Rakowice-Czyżyny airfield, one of the oldest military airfields in Europe.
Ogród Doświadczeń im. Stanisława Lema
Named after the most famous Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, the Garden is a place where kids (but not only them) can learn about optics, physics and astronomy using free standing installations like Newton's cradle, gongs, liquid vortexes, etc. There's also a spherical cinema with educational films.
Built in 1266 by the bishop Prandota for the Cistercians who came to Mogila in 1220 invited by duke Leszek the White and bishop Iwo Odrowaz. The crossway was founded by Casimir the Great in the 14th century. The interior is painted by Stanislaw Samostrzelnik, considered to be the best Polish Renaissance painter, who himself was a Cysterian. It also has beautiful stained glass windows and a late gothic altar form 1514 by Szczodrowa. The stalls have fine baroque portraits. Inside the early baroque chapel of Stefan Żółkowski is the wonderful gothic Cross of Mogiła. The facade is late baroque.
Stands opposite to the Cistercian Abbey. It is one of the oldest surviving examples of Polish wooden sacral architecture from the 15th century.
The church built during the 1970s. Considered somewhat of a symbol of defiance against communist government.
People's Theater
Sphinx Cinema
One of the smaller, forgotten cinemas in Krakow. Films usually arrive here a month after their premiere, but it's definitely not a multiplex experience.
Artificial water reservoir right next to Huta centre. Place for sports, rollerskating, a sunbath and swan feeding (don't do the last one, it's forbidden).
Sport centre close to Hutnik stadium: training halls, football pitches, climbing wall, swimming pool, sauna.
33 zł per hour
Cosy place with coffee and home made cakes.
Located close to the Central Square, the self-proclaimed "Stylish" dates back to 1956, when it opened as the first restaurant in Nowa Huta. The interior was lightly remodeled in the 2000s, but the place remains largely a time capsule of the 1970s and the menu is largely unchanged from the old days, serving up tasty Polish classics like żurek and pierogi.
coffee, beer, vodka and board games. open till midnight.
Budget hotel with 27 rooms. Restaurant, bar, sauna. Free WiFi and parking.
Four stars. 28 rooms, cold in winter, curtains don't keep out the light in summer. Free WiFi, TV, AC. 5 km east of Old Town on tram route.
Probably the biggest bazaar in Kraków is located in Nowa Huta next to Kocmyrzowskie roundabout. Food, cheap clothes, electronics, everything.
The easiest and cheapest way to get to Nowa Huta is to take tram number 4.
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