Uploaded December 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
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The Market Square Christmas Fair
One of the season’s most popular highlights is the annual Christmas fair on the main market square – a tradition started before WWII and rekindled after the fall of communism (when people were allowed to buy and possess things again). Occupying almost half of the enormous Rynek Główny, the fair features stall upon wooden stall selling all kinds of folk art and Christmas ornaments, candies and sweets, knitwear, toys, souvenirs, jewellery, pottery, partridges, pear trees and more. Food vendors also dish up hot food, over which families share picnic tables and keep warm with the hot mulled wine (called ‘grzaniec’) dispensed from enormous barrels nearby. Somewhere close at hand Saint Nick will likely be posing with the little ones as carolling fills the air and random acts of holiday spirit take place on a cultural stage nearby.
The stalls open are generally open from 10:00 – 20:00 and in 2015 the festive atmosphere will last from Friday November 27th until Sunday December 27th.
Music By: Thymn Chase
thymnchase.bandcamp.com
inyourpocket.com/krakow/Christmas-in-Krakow_70200f
The Market Square Christmas Fair
One of the season’s most popular highlights is the annual Christmas fair on the main market square – a tradition started before WWII and rekindled after the fall of communism (when people were allowed to buy and possess things again). Occupying almost half of the enormous Rynek Główny, the fair features stall upon wooden stall selling all kinds of folk art and Christmas ornaments, candies and sweets, knitwear, toys, souvenirs, jewellery, pottery, partridges, pear trees and more. Food vendors also dish up hot food, over which families share picnic tables and keep warm with the hot mulled wine (called ‘grzaniec’) dispensed from enormous barrels nearby. Somewhere close at hand Saint Nick will likely be posing with the little ones as carolling fills the air and random acts of holiday spirit take place on a cultural stage nearby.
The stalls open are generally open from 10:00 – 20:00 and in 2015 the festive atmosphere will last from Friday November 27th until Sunday December 27th.
Music By: Thymn Chase
thymnchase.bandcamp.com
