Nightclubs and bars in Krakow

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The Krakow’s City Theater was built in 1893 in resemblance to the Paris Opera building. Before the construction could start, a medieval hospital and a monastery together with its church had to be demolished.

In 1908 the building was renamed into the Juliusz Slowacki Theater.

In the 1990-ies the theater was renovated to be ready for its 100th Birthday.

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The Krakow Crawl is a chance for (especially individual) travelers to meet some other like minded people and have the chance to go out at night with them while discovering Krakow's nightlife scene. The crawl is only 25 PLN (zloties pronounced zwah-tees). You are taken by an English speaker with experience in Krakow's nightlife to 3 bar/pubs where you are treated to 3 shots of different traditional Polish Vodkas before being taken to a good party at a good club.

It is important to not wear sports clothes or become too intoxicated as some places will not admit an individual who falls into either of the aforementioned categories.

The Krakow Crawl is highly recommended for your first night in the city to get an idea of what goes on where and when.

More info is available here: http://krakow.where2b.org/pubcrawl

Dress Code: No sports clothes

This is another subterranean bar, just up the road (but on the other side) from Tower. Not quite as louche, tho' I bet it would love to be. Very much a young persons pub, quite charismatic with its umbelical extraction system coping barely with the cigarette smoke and pretty much wholly candle-lit. More rock music, though personally I just blew "my damn candle out".

Very useful in that the toilets are on the right when you get to the bottom of the stairs - that December cold certainly has its effect!!

Dress Code: Scarves and coats seemed the order of the day, though I never stayed here much later than 7 or so.

Small pub on the Bracka street.
Every saturday live music ( jazz standards playing young musicians from Cracow- piano, bass drums, guitar). Not to loud:)
Music start at 9.00pm.better earlier reserve table by phone
Beer - Pilsner Urquell,polish Beers (tyskie)
Eating - hot sandwiczes on the white wine with bacon.

If you like techno, drum&bass, house or other urban music (including live DJ's from all over the world- some from the elite) it's one of the best places to go in Krakow.

Compared to many of the most popular comptetitors it's small, but if you're there before 22:00 (thursday to sunday when it's open) you should get yourself a place on the dancefloor. To have a place on a sofa or any normal seat however, you would have to be earlier. The whole club, just as 99% of all nighspots in the city is situated in basement chambers from a few hundred years ago. Very modern interior- not original these days, but still nicely done.
In the very small chillout section every week you may find exhibitions of photography/art by young artisits.

The only problem (like in most clubs in the basements) is the lack of air conditioning, which may drive crazy when there's full house.

Dress Code: When I've been there last time there was no selection and I haven't heard there was any now.
Still don't expect to get in wearing sporting clothes...

The Moliere is not a real nightclub, it's a strange mixture between café, bar and club. There's one room upstairs that looks pretty much like an ordinary bar, and two rooms downstairs,one of which looks like an old-fashioned cafe complete with fireplace and old furniture, and the adjacent room is modern with sofas, neon lights and a dancefloor, basically something for everybody. Music is mostly Buddha Bar style, electronic and world music, drinks are pricey by Krakow standards.

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You can meet with people of great art in Krakow - personally (official meeting or if you are lucky just by accident haha) or with their art masterpieces.

Hmm... not so easy to choose a few of them. OK, look:

1. Slawomir MROZEK - I love his plays - NEXT Krakow's Nobel Prize in literature? Haha, who knows?
He is the best known among the Polish avant-garde dramatists. His plays have been performed in most of the capital cities in Europe and in New York with enormous success. He received the "Prix de l'Humour Noir" for "The Elephant" in France. He continued to write with success both short stories and dramatic works, becoming - alongside with Beckett and others - a revered creator of the modern theatre. Festivals of Mrozek's plays were held in Amsterdam (1988), Cracow (1990) and Stockholm (1991). His latest work "Love on the Crimea" was awarded the Crédit Industriel et Commercial of Paris.
www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_mrozek_slawomir
http://hosted.at.imago.com.au/shadow/mrozek.htm

2. Stanislaw LEM - satirical and philosophical science fiction writer. Lem's books were translated into forty languages, these editions total over twenty seven million copies. He is probably the best single sci-fi author of the late 20th century not to write in English. Lem is best known to English readers for his 1961 novel Solaris, the subject motion picture from 20th Century Fox.
Have you already seen new movie "SOLARIS" directed by Steven Soderbergh starring George Clooney?
What do you think?
The American premiere of Solaris took place on November 27th, 2002; European will be in March 2003.
www.lem.pl
www.solaristhemovie.com
www.k26.com/solaris

3. Krzysztof PENDERECKI - a top world composer: a Grammy Award (1988), a UNESCO International Music Council Award (1993) and many others.
www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/penderecki.html
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It's a pub + internet cafe room located in cellars.
Nice place to
- meet people (mainly young and very young people),
- get a drink (great variety - more then 50, beer: Zywiec, Zywiec Porter, Heineken + many kinds of bottled beer)
- listen to the music (jazz, blues, rock, acid jazz) in good atmosphere; sometimes (rarely recently) live music as well; each Friday since 9pm DJ Party "Lounge U Louisa" - club dancing music;
- connect to internet; very good and fast internet connection (1US$/Euro for 1 hour; 5MBp/s).


Door security guard do not enter too young people (18+ is OK :-), sometimes even check your luggage (esp. young people) looking for drugs, I suppose (+ call the police, possessing even the smallest amount of drugs is a crime in Poland now), some people said me that he was a little rude for them. For me he was very polite.

Opened 11am - +2 (+2 means 2am or to the last customer). Internet room: 10am-midnight.

Toilet - not so bad but hmmm... they should improve it.

Credit cards Visa accepted.
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Dress Code: As you like.