Audience during Wianki - Music Festival (2018) by Alicja WróblewskaKBF - Krakow Festival Office
Krakow – Festival City!
Krakow hosts hundreds of cultural events throughout the year. They stir powerful emotions at huge outdoor stages and intimate concert halls. Krakow is a city of festivals, bringing excitement in countless spaces. Join us for a journey around cultural venues!
Main Square
This is the beating heart of Krakow. Come rain or shine, whenever there’s a major event you know that a stage will pop up at the Main Square.
Potocki Palace
An important address on the city’s cultural map, it hosts important book launches, discussions, creative workshops, concerts and meetings.
It’s also home to the most important literary and poetry events: the Conrad Festival and Miłosz Festival.
Wesoła
The latest cultural space in Krakow. In June 2021, it hosted a three-day long festival featuring Poland’s leading alternative music performers on an outdoor stage.
Vistula Boulevards
A concert at the foot of Wawel hill with views over the Vistula? Why not! The boulevards are a favourite space for concerts held as part of the Wianki - Festival of Music.
Cricoteka
A former power station with a modern extension, it provides an intriguing space for spectacles, film screenings and concerts held as part of the Sacrum Profanum Festival and the Wianki - Festival of Music.
The venue is inspired by ideas of Tadeusz Kantor, founder of an avantgarde theatre acclaimed on the international scale.
Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Krakow
The traditional space hosts the regular repertoire of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra as well as events exploring other music genres, from the Film Music Festival in Krakow to Sacrum Profanum.
Czyżyny Hangar
The revitalised historic hangar provides a vast space for the greatest emotions. We were the first to test this during the immersive concert for 100 percussion cymbals as part of the Sacrum Profanum Festival in 2022.
ICE Kraków Congress Centre
A state-of-the-art venue meeting the highest acoustic standards. Whether it’s a concert by Ralph Kaminski held as part of the Megabit Bomb Festival, a techno eco-opera or a full symphonic orchestra, you won’t miss a single note in any of the concert halls!
Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria
Krakow is home to over 130 churches. Many also host annual music festivals, such as Music in Old Kraków, Misteria Paschalia and Musica Divina.
Małopolska Art Garden
In this experimental space you can break your previous habits and interact directly with musicians and artists. That’s why we chose it for the Otheroom performance during the Sacrum Profanum Festival in 2018.
Main Post Office - Meeting Club
The building combines the old and the new, retro with modernity and nostalgia with a hopeful look to the future. It hosts myriad music genres and styles with one thing in common: a longing for an analogue past and retro music.
This is well known to the participants in recycling workshops accompanying the Sacrum Profanum Festival in 2022.
Juliusz Słowacki Theatre
One of Poland’s most important stages and one of the most treasured examples of historic theatre architecture in Europe. Today it presents its regular repertoire alongside numerous concerts, operas and spectacles as part of many Cracovian festivals.
Łaźnia Nowa Theatre
One of Krakow’s youngest theatres, located in Nowa Huta, it works on the local, national and international scales and hosts the prestigious, critically-acclaimed Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival.
TAURON Arena Kraków
The venue brings together culture, sport and business. Tauron Arena Kraków is Poland’s largest and one of the most modern sports and entertainment venues, visited by hundreds of thousands of guests every year.
The hall is packed to the brim during concerts and film screenings with live accompaniment held during the Kraków Film Music Festival in May!
Museum of Municipal Engineering
The post-industrial space of the former tram depot at Św. Wawrzyńca Street has a unique atmosphere. It hosted events during the Krakow Film Music Festival in 2018 and club concerts as part of the Dance2Cinema cycle.
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
The Manggha Museum is the only state institution promoting Japanese culture in Poland. It’s also a terrific concert venue, as demonstrated during the Sacrum Profanum Festival in 2022.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Early music concerts held 101 metres below the ground at the Chapel of St. Kinga at the Wieliczka Salt Mine are an annual tradition of the Misteria Paschalia Festival.
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