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No
Frills, No Fly
Ryanair, the Irish no-frills carrier, has announced
that it suspends all its flights
from and to Krakow between November 4 and
December 19, 2008. The airline’s management excuses
itself by pointing to high fuel costs and high airport
tax at the Krakow
Airport. The airport has released a
statement in response revealing that Ryanair demanded
a blanket tax exemption in November and December and
accusing the carrier of disregard for
passengers.
Soldier
Graves in the Krakow Area, Now Easy to Find
Online service at www.muw.pl/grobywojenne provides
information about graves of the fallen in all wars
since 1655 till now in the Malopolska
province. The website contains names of
killed combatants of every nationality, their military
posting, dates of their deaths, and situation of
graves with photos of the sites. An interactive map
and a search engine help to locate burial grounds.
There are some 1,500 known military cemeteries and
individual soldier graves in the Malopolska province
of which a thousand or so have been catalogued to date
by the website. The project is a joint venture of Krakow’s
university students of the history faculty
and the office of wojewoda, the province’s governor.
Europe's
Biggest Shopping
Hungary’s developer, TriGranit, vows to construct
Europe’s biggest shopping
center in Krakow early next year. The
sprawling Bonarka City Center, situated on a
19-hectare industrial wasteland four kilometers south
of Krakow’s
central Old Town district, will boast
nearly 100,000 square meters of shopping
floor area. The whole project will cost euro 500,000
to build, with office blocks and blocks of flats to be
added later on, and will generate over 5,000 new jobs.
EU
Pledges a Couple of Billions for Malopolska
Malopolska
Province, whose capital city is Krakow, has
secured euro 1.29 billion from the European Union’s
funds for major infrastructure projects in the region
in the years 2007-2013. Plus the EU separate grant to
the tune of 590 million euros has been earmarked under
the Human Capital program for varied measures to boost
competitiveness of Malopolska’s workforce.
Schindler’s
Factory, Reincarnation
Minimalist blueprint of two Italian architects,
Florence’s Claudio Nardi and Leonardo Maria Proli,
has won the tender for the design of the Museum of
Modern Art in the long defunct Emalia works also known
as Schindler’s factory made famous by an
Oscar-winning film by Steven, ‘Schindler’s
List’. The museum will cost some ten million euro to
build till 2011 and it is to coexist with another
devoted to the history of the factory. The tender
attracted eight competing designs from various
countries and the second prize has been awarded to a
Berlin team Zvi Hecker Architect.
Live
in Krakow, Be Happy
Living in Krakow is most satisfying, according to the
Urban Audit Perception Survey, part of the European
Union’s Flash-Eurobarometer project. Conducted last
November by Gallup Hungary in 75 cities of the 27 EU
countries plus Turkey and Croatia, cosmopolitan
metropolis like Paris and London as well as some
close-knit communities like Finland’s Oulu and
Portugal’s Braga, it has revealed that 97 percent of
Krakow dwellers are satisfied to live in their city.
No other municipality can boast the same level of
satisfaction among citizenry save Groningen in The
Netherlands but only 75 percent of its denizens feel
strongly so against some 85 percent for Krakow. By
comparison, just sixty percent or so of the locals
said they were satisfied, either strongly or somewhat,
to live in Athens. Asked about concrete aspects of
urban life, residents
of Krakow assessed highest the integration
of foreigners whereas they seemed unhappy about hospital
health
services. The survey involved 500 randomly
selected individuals in each city.
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