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Nowa Huta
The bastard child of a devastated post WWII Poland, the huge Socialist Realist suburb of Nowa Huta is the direct antithesis of everything cuddly Kraków is. Gargoyles and tourists? Not here. The Orwellian settlement of Nowa Huta was one of only two entirely pre-planned socialist realist cities ever built (the other being Magnitogorsk in Russia’s Ural Mountains), and one of the finest examples of deliberate social engineering in the world.
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Nowa Huta has a few real hardcore Milk Bars, the kind that I recall in the early 1980's. Someone from NHIYP needs to take a tram over there some day and seek them out on one of these cold winter afternoons. I forgot the addresses, but they're ther[...]
A little gem tucked away in a building over an Old Persons Support Centre, although landmarked by the large green IS-2 tank parked on a plinth outside. A lovely English-speaking lady at the Centre took me on a personal tour, translating the words of[...]
Is there an email address for the museum?How do we contact directly?We would like to personally thank the lovely kind lady who spoke english so well and answered all the questions from our two teenage girls and myself and my wife asked after watchin[...]
We were personally servrd by an extremely well informed and communicative english speaking staff member. A film was projected for us and even our teenagers understood the unusual political/cultural history and continued questioning us later. Wonderf[...]
Can anyone provide a photograph of Arka Panna Church, as well as its altar. There was a photo in the May 1972 issue of National Geographic; however, that was so long ago. I just love modern Polish sculpture - - and this church's Jesus on the cruci[...]