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Cracow through the year

JANUARY
•1st of January - New Year's Day
•Large Orchestra of the Festive Help - concerts and numerous charitable parties on the Main Market
•Carnival in Cracow - on Rynek Glowny - Main Market, concerts, colourful parades, fancy balls and film shows.
•Tourny of ballroom dance
•Concerts of carols in churches
•Wafer at Cardinal’s Stanislaw Dziwisz for city guides.

FEBRUARY

•International Festival of Nautical songs „Shanties”
•11th of February - My Birthday

MARCH

•Cracowian Theatrical Reminiscencies - International Festival of Alternative Theatres - the oldest view of alternative theatres in Poland.
•Vivaldi and Friends concerts - st.Idziego Church
•Chopin, Mozart and Friends concerts - st.Peter and Paul Church
•Easter fairs on the Main Market Square
•23rd of March - Easter Sunday
•24th of March - Easter Monday
•Emaus – indulgence on Easter Monday which takes place near chapel of Norbertanki on Zwierzyniec. Ceremonial mass. Indulgence with crams, sport embrasures, razzle-dazzle for kids, tombolas etc. On booths there are putted: plastic toys, rings with colourful eyes, sweets and gingerbread house.
•Rekawka - hill of Lasota – the First Tuesday after Easter; indulgence and folk picnic near church of St. Benedykt on Krzemionki.
•Easter festival of Ludwig Van Beethoven - in program: symphonic concerts, cameral recitals with the participation of the internationally famous solists and groups. Concerts take place in hall of Cracowian Philharmonic on Straszewski street.

APRIL

•Days of Organ Music - Cracowian Philharmonic
•Misteria Paschalia - Cracow - Krakow 6-13.04.2009
Rinaldo Alessandrini / Concerto Italiano
Jordi Savall / Hesperino XXI
Fabio Biondi / Europa Galante
Giovanni Antonini / II Giardino Armonico
MAY
•1st of May - Labour Day

•3rd of May - Constitution Day (May 3, 1791)
•4th of May - Cracovia Maraton
•11th of May - Pentecost Sunday
•22nd of May - Corpus Christi
•Festival of Soup – in Kazimierz , yummy!!!

•Cracowian Night of Museums – You can visit all musuems for free with guide, but at night.
•Cracowian Ballet Spring - Theatre of Slowacki
•5th - 11th of May - Juwenalias – student parties at clubs and on the streets of the city.

JUNE

•Intronization Of Kurk King - Historical Museum of Cracow, Rynek Glowny-Main Market 35
•Fromer salt brewing - Museum of Zupy Krakowskie, Wieliczka, Zamkowa 8 str
•Summer Festival of Opera and Operetta
•Night of Theatres – international festival
•Lajkonik – Horse of Zwierzyniec, Tatarzyn; It’s one of the unofficial symbols of Cracow. Parade of Lajkonik takes place on the God’s Body day. It goes from the chapel in Zwierzyniec to the Main Market Square. The people laugh and play on its way

•Festival of Jewish Culture: 25th June- 3rd July – www.jewishfestival.pl

•Garlands – traditional ceremony organised on Saturday before glow night on 24th of june, in the evening, on semicircle of Wisla under Wawel. There are concerts, spectacles and fireworks.

JULY

•International Festival of street Theatres
•Summer Organ – Mariacka Basilica, church of st. Peter and Paul, Bernardines
•Organ Recitals of Tyniec – Benedictines Abbey in Tyniec

AUGUST

•15th of August - Assumption of the Biessed Virgine Mary also Polish Army Day
•Solo-Duo-Trio – International Festival of Small Jazz Form
•International Festival of Court Dance - the only such festival in Europe. Rynek Glowny-The Main Market, Courtyard of Castle on Wawel
•Festival of dumplings - 17th of August - st.Jacek day and my nameday , festival of dumpligs takes place on Kazimierz and Rynek Glowny-Main Market Square - yummy..., it is possible to taste dumplings with different filling, but if you miss this day then I will tell you where you can eat delicious dumplings. I love dumplings, (of course my Mum's dumplings are the best

), look "a good place to eat", which restaurants makes the best

SEPTEMBER

•Bajit Chadasz – month of meetings with Jewish Culture
•Days of Cultural Legacy of MaloPolska
•Fairs of Folk Art - the Main Market Square, handcraft, cepelian products, jewels, regional kitchen-stalls and stage around Sukiennice

OCTOBER

•Jazz Juniors - International Competition of Young Debut Jazz Bands
•31.X - Halloween, it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day", which is now also known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated in accordance to one another. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.

NOVEMBER

•1st XI All Saints' Day – visiting graveyards, Rakowicki graveyard
•Cracowian Jazz day of All saints
•11th of November - Independence (Nov 11,1918)

DECEMBER

•Contest for the most beautiful Cracowian Lark - at first Thursday of december and exhibition of cracowian larks; Historical Museum of Cracow, Rynek Glowny 35
•Christmas fairs – from the beginning of December it is possible to buy christmas articles, christmas tree accessories and gifts.
•24th of December - "Wigilja" in Poland
•25th of December - First Day of Christmas
•26th of December - Second Day of Christmas
•31st of New Year’s Eve party on the Main Market