HAPPY NEW YEAR! EINEN GUTEN RUTSCH! FELIZ ANO NUEVO! FELICE ANNO NUOVO! PROSPERO ANO NOVO! BONNE ANNE! SRECNO NOVO LETO! नये साल की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें!

Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku 2012!

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May this New Year be a good one, full of magic, love, friendship, good health and joy. 

May all your dreams come true!

Wroclaw's New Year's Party in the Market Square will be broadcast on the second channel of Polish TV:-). There will be Polish rhythms, but also Balcan, Basque and Senegal sounds (the only in the world two-person Basque instrument called Txalaparta!). Polish artists Kayah, Brodka , L.U.C., T.Love, Lech Janerka and jazz singer Urszula Dudziak will be performing, not to mention an opera diva Alicja Węgorzewska and Capitol music theatre who will be showing fragments of Hair musical. Should be fun! As we say in Polish: Have a swinging time tonight!

VACLAV KLAUS IN WROCLAW

photo by Wroclaw [Wroclove] on Facebook

The visit of Vaclav Klaus – the President of the Czech Republic makes me think of Wroclaw’s Czech links.  First of all, the name of the city derives from the Czech prince Wratislav. Under the Czech rule, which started in 1337, the city was second biggest after Prague flourishing politically and economically thanks to many municipal privileges and taxes. The building of the Town Hall was growing and the market square was full of all kinds of stalls with products to buy. Salt was traded on a separate square, whose name ‘Solny’ still reminds us of those times.  One of the main industries was beer production - visit the famous historical Świdnicka Cellar (Piwnica Świdnicka) in the Town Hall and enjoy the funny scene engraved above the entrance. If you are already there, look up and find the 15th-century friezes on the Town Hall’s walls depicting various entertainments of Wroclaw medieval citizens. New churches, buildings and schools appeared. It was the “Golden Age’ of Wroclaw.  No wonder that the Czech football team will probably choose Wroclaw for their stay during EURO 2012 and Vaclav Klaus can feel at home here;-).

Wroclaw has never been a city of one nation. Rulers,  languages, people and religions came and went. What remained untouched, however, was the spirit of city. 

WROCLAW CHRISTMAS TREE

Wroclaw 22-metre Christmas Tree will be lit up today in the town square with over 19 thousand lights!!! I can't wait to see it:-)

                            fot. Bartosz Malak

WROCLAW CHRISTMAS MARKET

I know it's quite early, but....do you want your Christmas wishes to come true? If yes, come to Wroclaw Christmas Market to meet a charming Christmas gnome Prezentuś – if you touch his hat three times, your wishes will come true, unless you were naughty;-). While there try local delicacies from Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Holland, Latvia and Lithuania. And if you get cold grab a mug of yummy mulled wine:-). The market is held in the town square until 23 December and open every day from 10am to 9pm.