The monument to director Piotr Skrzynecki sits outside the iconic “Vis-à-vis” bar on Kraków’s market square.

The monument to director Piotr Skrzynecki sits outside the iconic “Vis-à-vis” bar on Kraków’s market square.
The city authorities have blamed the longstanding former mayor, who left office in May.
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Kraków today named an area near the Russian consulate “Free Ukraine Square”.
The city’s mayor hopes that other church-owned green spaces could also soon be opened to the public.
Over 200 kids started classes on Tuesday.
Since 2018, Sopot has removed more than 1,000 adverts from its public spaces.
The low-cost airline, which is Poland’s biggest carrier, will operate 73 routes, including 10 new ones, from Kraków this summer.
Beavers, a species once close to extinction in Poland, are now thriving in the country.
The Polish city is hosting up to 150,000 refugees from Ukraine, causing its population to grow almost 20% in the space of a month.
The state tourism agency has sought to reassure international travellers that Poland remains a safe destination.
“Neither the city nor the government can now cope with the wave of refugees from Ukraine,” says Warsaw’s mayor.
Regional authorities claim the director breached procurement regulations and failed to “care for the good name of the theatre”.
A new collection of images shows the decline and revival of the district over the decades.
The city had warned that it could pull out unless the government offered financial guarantees.