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).