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| __________Cracow Nightlife Cracow Nightlife - TravelPuppy.com The amalgamation of a large student population and an increasing number of tourist visitors means that the nightlife scene in Cracow has hotted up significantly over the last few years. The epicentre of nightlife is on and around Rynek Glowny, with pavement cafés a well liked place to begin an evening. Distinctions between restaurants, cafés, bars and clubs tend to blur a bit, especially later in the evening when cosy cellar bars become party zones complete with booming dance music and sweaty dancefloors. Live music tends to be jazz or rock, but there are occasionally more off-beat shows. Bars have tended to close quite early in the past but more and more are opening until 0200hrs or even 0400hrs. A cover charge may be applied. The minimum drinking age in Poland is 18, and it is against the law to sell alcohol to someone who appears to be drunk. The average price of a beer in a bar is between ZL5 and ZL8, but wine is more costly. Bars Every week sees the launch of a new puba or a new café, so keeping up with what’s happening in the city can be a bit of a challenge. Check the local press or websites such as www.cracowonline.com or www.cracow-life.com for the most recent hip venues. One of the finest of the cellar pubs is CK Browar, Podwale 6-7, a lively pub with stone walls and lots of nooks and crannies to hide away in. An artsy, Bohemian hangout is Nowy Kuzyn, Maly Rynek 4, with its 1970s style decor, funky furniture and trance sounds. More traditional pubs include Piwnica Pod Baranami, Rynek Glowny 27, with its inexpensive beer, and Pub Popularny, ulica Grodzka 31, with its rock music and strong beer. Bastylia Bar on Stolarska 3 is a fashionable pub with giant screen TV and good vodkas, and they also serve food. Casinos There is a branch of Casinos Poland in the Hotel Novotel Bronowice. The hotels Forum and Pod Roza also have casinos that are open to the public. There is also a huge casino in Hotel Cracovia. The minimum age for entrance is 18 years – passports are a requisite. At very least, a suit and tie or the equivalent is the standard dress code for casinos in the hotels. Clubs Cracow’s club scene has improved very much in recent years, with new clubs opening all the time. Party goers tend to move from one spot to another as the night goes on. One of the hottest dance clubs at present is Club Fusion at ulica Florianska 15, although Kredens, Rynek Glowny 12, a cavernous cellar club, has a well established reputation for dance music too. Caryca, ulica Wielopol 15, has smoky, laid back interiors and smooth sounds, while Buddha Bar & Garden at Rynek Glowny 6 (right on the Grand Square) offers oriental décor and atmosphere. Frantic, also in the Old Town at ulica Szewska 5, attracts the young crowd with its funky décor: it has two dancefloors and three bars. And Zoom Club, new on the scene for 2005, is one of the places to check out on weekends, with visiting hip house DJs from all over Poland. Kitsch, ulica Wielopole 15 meanwhile, is the best gay-friendly spot in town. Dance In addition to ballet at the Slowacki Theatre, the city is a nice place to see performances during the Cracow Ballet Meetings in November. Film Film buffs should time their visit to Cracow to coincide with some of the annual festivals, such as the Polish and International Festival of Commercials and Advertisements in March (Poland was the proud winner at Cannes International Advertising Festival in June 2000), the International Short Film Festival and Polish Short Film Festival in May, or the Etiud International Film Festival which is in November. Just about all films shown in Cracow’s cinemas are in their original language, with Polish subtitles. Cracow’s screens include ARS, ulica sw Jana 6 (tel: (012) 421 4199), an extremely elegant cinema just off the market square, and the Kijow (the biggest cinema in town) behind the Hotel Cracovia, Krasinskiego 34 (tel: (012) 422 3093). There is a new IMAX, aleja Pokoju 44 (tel: (012) 290 9090). Pasaz, Rynek Glowny 9 (in the old commercial passage leading from the corner of Grodzka and the Rynek to ulica Stolarska) shows 'A' movie features a few weeks or months after their release, and Mikro, ulica Lea 5 (tel: (012) 634 2897) is the place to go for arthouse movies. Live Music Jazz is very popular in the city and some of the cellar bars make for the perfect environment in which to hear bands. Klub U Louisa, 13 Rynek Glowny on the main square is one of the oldest places in Cracow, and one of the most famous. Indigo, ulica Sw Tomasza 17, is a smoky cellar perfect to listen to jazz music in relaxed surroundings. Stalowe Magnolie (Steel Magnolias), ulica Sw Jana 15, is open from 1800hrs to dawn – jazz ends at midnight and recorded house music begins. The Klezmer Hois (Klezmer House) restaurant, on ulica Szeroka 6 in Kazimierz, offers nightly Klezmer (a combination of traditional Jewish music and 1920s jazz) from one of three bands, as well as other music on occasion. Many bars and clubs have live music one night a week. Peweks, ulica Sw Tomasza 11a, is a cult Cracow hangout worth checking out, while Ludu Dubu, ulica Wielopole 5, is a retro club in the old 19th century townhouse just outside the Old Town. Popular with students, it offers a range of music. Music Cracow’s musical heritage dates back to the liturgical music of the 11th-century Cathedral School. Liszt and Brahms gave concerts in Wawel Castle’s Saxon Room, Szymanowski is buried in Skalka Church and Paderewski made a donation to the university. The Cracow Academy of Music continues to produce high calibre musicians. Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra performs at the Panstwowa Filharmonia im Szymanowskiego (Szymanowski State Philharmonic), ulica Zwierzyniecka 1 (tel: (012) 422 9477). Capella Cracoviensis choir gives special concerts in the Sukiennice (Cloth Hall) and a number of Cracow’s churches, in addition to their performances at the Philharmonic Hall. Opera performances take place on Sundays and Mondays in the extraordinary Teatr im Juliusza Slowackiego (Juliusz Slowacki National Slowacki Theatre), plac sw Ducha 1 (tel: (012) 424 4500), which echoes the Paris Opera. Cracow Operetta performs at the Scena Opretkowa (Operetta Stage), ulica Lubicz 48 (tel: (012) 421 4200). The Music in Old Cracow festival and the Tyniec Organ Recitals, in an 11th century Benedictine abbey in the nearby village of Tyniec, have both been running for over a quarter of a century. Much newer, but quickly gaining in popularity, is the annual Easter Ludwig van Beethoven Festival, inaugurated as part of the Krakow 2000 festival and featuring works by Beethoven and other composers. The summer Jazz Masters Festival features international and local performers. Theatre Cracow has a very rich dramatic history – the Aktorzy Teatru Cricot 2, ulica Kanoniczna 5 (tel: (012) 292 9290), was well-known as the place to see the works of avant-garde director Tadeusz Kantor, while the Teatr im. Juliusza Slowackiego or Slowacki Theatre, plac Sw Ducha 1 (tel: (012) 422 4575), was the venue for the premiers of Stanislaw Wyspianski’s plays. Today, both classic and avant garde works are staged there. The Teatr Stary im Heleny Modrzejewskiej (Old Theatre) is Cracow’s foremost theatre company and performances are on one of the three stages. The main stage for performance is at ulica Jagiellonska 5 (tel: (012) 422 8020 or 422 4040 for bookings). Teatr Ludowy, Osiedle Teatralne 34 (tel: (012) 680 2100), holds on to its socialist name (The People’s Theatre). In addition, it also retains the sparse interiors of Poland’s Communist past but this is where radical new plays or cutting-edge adaptations of the classics are performed. Tickets can be purchased Tuesday to Saturday 1600hrs-1800hrs and 2 hours before the performance. |