Saturday, May 23, 2015

Early planning

In this year's holiday in Krakow there will be favorable conditions to find a suitable apartment or other places for accommodation. Always ready for a trip with friends was forced to slightly more than a month before the planned trip on search pages so as to find anything to get some sleep. In addition, it should be noted that the search space equal in Krakow, you can see the hotel in Warsaw, although in the latter city never had so huge problem finding anything. Despite strongly promoted sites with low prices Krakow for the warm months it is besieged in a significant way but not only by Poles but also large numbers of people from abroad. If you're looking for something with medium or high-end recommend booking on booking.com where you do not have demonstrated using a credit card of your accommodation - in some cases, yes she'll be needed - but this applies mainly to high standard accommodation where little room is left free, the term is plus the far-reaching that much of the organization and conditions check at the hotel. The upside of this website is the fact that in cases where Your journey will have to be postponed in most cases cancellation up to a certain time frame is absolutely free.

Purpose of trip

If you still have problems to pack the necessary things which will be useful in any journey is read it ... Firstly, it is to pack in as little backpack if you know that you have a lot to transition, unless the exclusive trip and you taking the suitcase, as an adjunct to choose sunglasses with UV protection, small first aid kit or suntan lotion. Certainly, they will be comfortable shoes. High heels and elegant shoes is left in the closet. Certainly useful in some cases proves to be a torch or a miniature pocket knife with many features. To open bottles or cans of food, etc. It is advisable to also take a rain jacket wherever they go :)
And what is most important? Do not forget to book your room! I ordered for myself and my friends cheap
accommodation in Krakow more than a month before we left, so I know for sure that they have a place to stay - unless you prefer to choose and look for something in the dark! :)



What to get ready for the trip

Ok ... So really we try to see what we need to be able to travel even taking into account the short-term trip. First, try to see the weather - in order to know what to pack. The farther, the better to choose warm or too light light clothing - unless it stay in the Caribbean then choose mainly swimsuit and pareo. But seriously ... Whenever we go to private places or is agritourism should bring all-most of these sites is not intended to provide customer service with minimal luggage. Personally, I always choose apartments, where I have access to a large amount of towels in the room waiting for me with fresh linen, towels, hair dryer and toiletries handy. Similarly, I was rent a flat in Krakow, where everything was waiting for me - and I felt at home. In addition to the clothes should be packed extremely comfortable! shoes.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Vistula Boulevards


Historic hydraulic structures for flood control function in Krakow along the Vistula River was expected also to auxiliary functions quays. It consists primarily of retaining walls (upper and lower endearing high riverbed, forming a quay reloading). In the upper walls are made of brick staircase off-road pedestrian ramps and paved circular communication; railway sidings on the lower level have not survived. The team nineteenth-twentieth-century boulevards and shafts within the administrative borders of Cracow fully effective key to being the city flood protection function, as demonstrated by the experience of great floods, among others, In 1970, 1997 and 2010.
Boulevards and adjacent parts of the Vistula river embankments, as well as the Ore Mountains, secondarily acquired the function and status of park areas, and is currently a popular recreational spot for both of Krakow, as well as visiting tourists. There are numerous walking paths and bicycle paths along the run.
Vistula boulevards are the object of urban art from the Krakow Technology Route created 6 April 2006. Also leads them RecreationIn 2009. It was launched in Krakow water tram, which stops include, among others, boulevards: Rodła ("Flisacka"), Czerwieńskim ("Most Debnicki"), Livonian ("Paulińska") and Volyn ("Grunwald Bridge"). Other stops include: "Galeria Kazimierz" on Grzegórzki, "Most Kotlarski" Zabłocie, "Tor canoeing" and "Tyniec Monastery".
 
 

Red Bridge

The historic building, one of the objects of the Austrian Fortress Krakow. Rokadowej grade-separated junction road (ul. Waliszewski) and the access road to the fort Pękowice (ul. Pękowicka) anti-embolism, which could arise during the fight while simultaneously regrouping of troops in both these ways. He could have very serious consequences and therefore about 100 years ago, built on the distant outskirts of the city contemporary two-level intersection. Recently made renovation, which restored the original appearance of the Red bridge.
Under the Red Bridge leads Eagles Nests Trail, coinciding with the old, medieval trade route connecting Krakow and Częstochowa, and further - with Wielkopolska. It runs here a fragment of the cultural and pilgrimage route Via Regia, which is one of Roads of St.. James, leading to the shrine of the saint in the Spanish Santiago de Compostela.


Some news about Krakow

Krakow is located on the Vistula River, is situated at the gates of Krakow, Nida Basin and the Carpathian Plateau.It is one of the oldest Polish cities, with years of history, with many valuable architectural objects. It operates a number of institutions and cultural institutions that collect priceless monuments. In the past, the city belonged to the Hanseatic League uniting the most important commercial centers in Europe.1795. Krakow was formally Polish capital, and 1611. Seat of the rulers of the Polish state. In the years 1596-1795, ie the third partition of Polish, as the capital of the Republic of features shared capital of Warsaw, which became a town rezydencjalnym king. He was a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom. The town had the right to participate actively in the act of choosing a king.Under the decisions taken at the Congress of Gniezno, from 1000 years the capital of the diocese of Cracow continuously (one of five in what was then Poland) and in 1925 the archdiocese and metropolis.It is now the capital of the province of Malopolska, as well as a center of Krakow's metropolitan agglomeration. The historical record is considered the main city of the historic Lesser Poland.In Krakow are the main offices m.in .: Polish Academy of Sciences, the National Science Centre, the Polish Association of Synchrotron Radiation, National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution, the Polish Special Forces Command, which is also one of the few commands of NATO special forces, Polish Ski Association. The city has cultural institutions of national importance and status among Old National Theatre, National Museum, National Pantheon, National Archives, Jagiellonian Library, Book Institute, Centre for Special Operations, National Rugby Centre.City serves as the administrative, cultural, educational, scientific, economic, service and tourism. Krakow is the second, after Warsaw, the country's largest market of modern office space, as well as one of the key road junctions and stations in Poland. In Balice is the second largest Polish airport of international importance. According to the report of the Conference on investment. UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 2011 Krakow is the best place in the world for locating service centers for business. In April of 2012. Krakow was among the 120 most attractive cities in the world (the so-called. List of hot spots for business competitiveness) in terms of research unit performing the Economist Intelligence Unit study commissioned by Citi Handlowy.In 2000, Krakow was the first city of the Polish and Central and Eastern Europe (together with Prague) became European Capital of Culture. In the second decade of the twenty-first century it was also awarded the title of European City of Sport 2014 and the City of Literature by UNESCO.Krakow will host World Youth Day in 2016. Moreover, it will also one of the host cities for 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship and the European Championship Men's Handball in 2016.British think tank Globalization and World Cities (GaWC), investigating the relationship between cities of the world in the context of globalization, found while Krakow for a global metropolis (High Sufficiency).