I’ve been to Kraków three times last year and it gives ten days including one day spent in Zakopane. Today I want to show you places I went to in April. Next two posts will be about July and October trips. Each time was related to live shows and sightseeing.

Kraków in April

It was mainly all about seeing places related to the playwright I was writing master’s thesis about – Stanisław Wyspiański. I’ve visited National Museum in Sukiennice, the museum named after him, his friend’s manor house where the wedding reception took place in 1900, Jan Matejko’s House (but I wasn’t allowed to take photos there; anyways, you must go there when you come to Kraków, believe me!) and the theater named after Juliusz Słowacki (my thesis was also about him), the Polish romantic, where Wyspiański’s plays had their premieres.

This is the theater mentioned above. I wasn’t inside, but I’d love to watch any play there one day…

Another place I went to was the National Museum in Sukiennice…. If there is any writer you love, there must be any museum or just place related to them. I honestly recommend this kind of trips. It makes you understand better what you’ve read.

For me this trip was all about Stanisław Wyspiański. He was a playwright and painter, so I needed to see his work in galleries, his own museum etc… He was also making projects of stained glass!

The play which made me want to see the real place that inspired it is called Wedding. It’s based on the real event, and I think the most of Polish students honestly hates it these days… Including me… I mean I didn’t like it when I was still a high school girl… But studies and writing the thesis about his plays changed my perception completely. And I think there are better titles not known by the wide spectator or reader, and that’s a great waste and shame.

Except all of this, I also visited the Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University. That’s the oldest such a garden in Poland! I love spring and nature. And April is the best time to watch flowers freshly blooming. The grass is the greenest than.

My favorite spring flower? Magnolia! Absolutely yes! Every color is beautiful. I simply love these flowers for blooming on such huge trees (it’s called majesty), this strong smell and its delicacy.

I also love orchids! These are such old and beautiful flowers. Tropical flowers. I will never forget how hot and wet it was in that greenhouse! And I’ve never seen more orchids in one place… This is just one photo and the building was quite… huge. This is quite how my April trip ended.

I also went to 5 Seconds of Summer’s show. You’ve already seen the post about it. At least I hope so! Here I’m adding symbolical photos. And it was the first night of my trip but I think it’s better to end this post like this than add it at the beginning…

Yep. That’s me in front of the arena.

And now I’m adding few other photos of the city.

This is Planty. The park which replaced medieval city walls in 19th century.

Today that’s all but another part is coming in two days! Yay!

Greetings!

A.A.