Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Kryspinów Lagoon

The resort is located at a distance of 12 km. from Krakow and covers an area of ​​64 ha, half of which is flood and is administered by the company "Above the Lagoon" under long-term contracts with the municipality of foxes. The number of people visiting the flood comes to 30,000 a day on hot weekends. In the immediate vicinity of the motorway exit and the airport in Balice. The beaches of the Centre are mostly sandy beaches (the northwestern part) and partly grassy. Within the Centre are guarded swimming, water equipment rental, water slide, basketball and volleyball and a playground for children. Even if you have accommodation in the city center is at the bottom I give commute if you do not have a car. If your hotel or apartment does not have a pool going around in Krakow and don't have entrance to the Aqua Park in the city center, I recommend a trip to the lagoon.

Website: http://www.kryspinow.com.pl
email: nad-zalewem@kryspinow.com.pl
Access:
Line 209 - stop "Kryspinów Lagoon", right on the lagoon.
Line 239, 249, 269 - stop "Kryspinów," you have to walk approx. 3 km.


Family Amusement Park

Rabkoland or Family Amusement Park. These types of sites do not need a small travelers recommend! Also, adults should not be bored. From the ferris wheel on the track mini motorcycles and cars. From the palace vampires after a ball pool. There are attractions traditional, modern and quite unconventional, such as a ride on ... toilet bowls. In August, they held even in the championship riding on these - you have to admit - unusual means of transport. In the area Rabkolandu operate a museum with very interesting collections of the Museum of the Order of the Smile and the Museum of Records and Curiosities. Why do I recommend this place? Since this is an alternative for those traveling with children in the vicinity of Krakow. If you fail to hit the AquaPark in the city center is always Rabkoland. Even if accommodation, hotel, vacation flats are located in the city center very quickly you will be able to ride this Amusement Park. True to Rabka Zdroj piece of road is but emphasize that really worth visiting. Detailed information on Rabkolandu can be obtained at: http://www.rabkoland.pl and telephone number 018 267 69 57.




Thursday, February 11, 2016

House under the machine

No one today knows who invented beer. Pili them the ancient Greeks and Romans mention of this drink can be found in the Code of Hammurabi (1800 r. BC), he wrote about him in his chronicle of Gall Anonymous, Leszek White resigned from the Crusades, due to the lack of beer in warm countries. In Poland, it was a very popular drink of beer.

"Wine is rarely used here, and the cultivation of vineyards is not known. However, it has the country Polish beverage brewed from wheat, hops and water, the Polish beer called; and nothing emphasizing instead the better for refreshment of the body, is not only a delight locals but also foreigners delicious taste, more than in other countries delights. " He wrote about our country known chronicler Jan Dlugosz.

According to the law of 1667 years in the beer can be brewed only in affiliated guild. Cech brewers in Krakow already existed in 1,423 years. Under his supervision there were two towers Krakow, standing in the place currently occupied by the building of Theatre. Słowacki. The purpose of the guild was not only defense but also the maintenance of the two towers. Most, however, breweries were located outside the city walls, next to the mills and tanneries. Breweries city led the guild masters, while outside the city walls bunglers, ie. A person not affiliated to the guild, practicing their profession illegally.

In the mid-sixteenth century, many breweries were on the street St. John. With beer was famous house "At the peacock" at number 30, in the building of the current branch of the National Museum - the Czartoryski Museum also conducted a brewery. Beer Krakow, called "dubeltowym" was then - as a wonderful drug - patients recommended by doctors.

In the nineteenth century, the most popular was the beer from the brewery Rudolf Jenny'ego, built in 1840 at the intersection of Arms and Lubicz (in 1903 redeemed by Baron Götz-Okocimski, the owner operating since 1845 in Okocim brewery).

In the Garden Strzelecki drank beer Julian Pagaczewskiego (1830-1877), originally imported from Tenczynek, and later produced in house "Pod Machine" on Kleparz, in the place where today is the building of the Polish National Bank (corner Basztowa Street and Matejko Square) . Julian Pagaczewski (grandfather Stanislaw Pagaczewskiego, writer, author of the famous series of children's books about the adventures of Professor Baltazar sponges) studied brewing in London, as the first in Poland began producing beer brand "porter". He ran his own shop in the Cloth Hall, where he sold beer manufactured by them.

Comber Babski

Comber, as we read in the Encyclopedia of Popular PWN 1982., A "meat on the bone of the lumbar spine slaughter animals and game." It can therefore be saddle of hare or rabbit but womanish? !!! Yes, perhaps, at least in Krakow Comber Babski Krakow is an old tradition, which was celebrated in the time ostatkowy, and which, despite its name, had nothing to do with ritual cannibalism. Word for saddle, probably from the German language, has two meanings. In this second sense combrzyć is the same as frolic, let's add soundly frolic.
Shrove Tuesday, which traditionally began with the tłustoczwartkowym gluttony, especially exuberant course were in Krakow, mainly due to women. On Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, they gathered at the Church of Our Lady on the Sand (corner of ul. Karmelicka and Garbarska), forming a considerable division. It's militia recruited mostly from przekupek trading vegetables, ripened in the fertile soils of the Black Rural caviar or Lobzow.
Peddlers were called in Krakow simply babami. Baby as I said, fidgeting with that day elaborate, decked in the great ladies. In place of satin, tulle and silk, however, they used the plebeian sacks instead of laces - straw and instead carefully arranged curls - wove itself into the hair shavings. After collection, baby lined up in order of battle and were moving to Krakow, the gate shoemaker. That raised the march may have little in common with the principles of a drill, but it was something to watch. At the head we carried a big straw effigy, imaginative man called loin. Behind this puppet he strode from the przekupek, which in a given year, held the function of the Speaker. In the first half of the nineteenth century. This office five times in a row fell unfamiliar with the name, but known for its nicknames, the wise woman named Maryna. Only the Speaker of the skirt was walking the rest.
Comber Babski survived to the end of the existence of the Cracow Republic. In 1846. Austrian police banned further celebrations. It's no wonder the authorities conservative Habsburg monarchy that put an end to the feminist party. But by a strange coincidence, many of the traditions forbidden by the conqueror revived at more convenient times and Comber Babski not.