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Hejnal Mariacki
Please go to the Church of St. Mary (Mariacki) on the corner of the main Market Square - you really can't miss it. Listen to the bugle that announces the hour: its call, known for centuries as the Hejnal Mariacki, is curiously truncated. Many people in Cracow today will explain this as a tradition w...
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Krakow - The Hejnal.
4 times on the hour, 24 times a day, 365 days a year, a trumpeter plays a traditional tune called Hejnal. This symbol of Krakow became a symbol of Poland too, as it is transmitted (live) by the Polish national Radio since november 1927 at noon. The Hejnal is played by firemen trumpeters at the top o...
cracovia.free.fr
St. Mary's Church, Krakow - IgoUgo Reviews
From here you can hear a trumpeter playing the Hejnal on the hour every hour. The trumpeter stops abruptly half-way through as, legend has it, a trumpeter was once shot in the throat...
igougo.com
Cracow | Guide | Krakow Old Town | St Mary's Church
Inside, the church may not be to everybody's taste. Crammed with gold and blues and studded with tombs and memorials in every conceivable corner, it is a complete assault on the senses. The recent restoration, although done with great care, nevertheless heightens this excessive quality. The church i...
cracow-life.com
TrekEarth | Krakow - St. Mary's church Photo
The basilica of the Virgin Mary's (or Kosciol Mariacki) at Krakow’s central Grand Square has been traditionally the temple of choice of the city’s burghers. It also seems to be the most famous of all Poland's churches. The Gothic edifice replaced its Romanesque predecessor by the end of the 13th cen...
trekearth.com
St Mary's Church, Krakow - photo, Poland travel guide
The most striking church on the Main Market Square is St Mary’s, an impressive twin-spired Gothic structure. Every hour a mournful bugle sounds from the tallest church spire in memory of the lone watchman whose trumpeted warning of an invasion was cut off mid-note by a...
wordtravels.com
Latest reviews of St Mary's Church (Kosciol Mariacki), Krakow, Poland
is a basilica. The interior is absolutely stunning. Not a square inch of bare stone or brick is visible, from the floor up to the vaulted ceiling. The art and decoration is nearly overwhelming. This is a large church, and contains several chapels, lots of beautiful stained glass windows, and of cour...
travel.yahoo.com
St Mary's Church Monument | Old Town - Cracow Online | Krakow Party Directory
It's the church that you can see from every place on the Market Square. It was built in the second part of the 14th century as a parish church. There are two unequal towers: the taller one (81 meters) is topped with a late-gothic spire and the lower one (69 meters) is topped with a manierist cupola....
cracowonline.com
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