Presentation prepared by: Trehubetska Stanislava and Hrazhevska Jana.

Several students from our Institute had the opportunity to visit Crakow, where was hosted the Second International Congress of Polish History: Poland in Central Europe. Hundreds of scientists from all over he world gathered together in Yahhelonsky University to present their work of Polish History and exchange ideas with their colleagues.

We are the students of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, History Department, at the Second International Congress of Polish History: Poland in Central Europe in Сrakow.

The next day, a group of students visited the book exhibition, which was opened at the Auditorium Maximum, and also we participated the session "Cities and towns - the daily life of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."

In the evening in St. Mary's Cathedral was held concert of organ music especially for members of Congress. A fascinating beauty of music helped touch the Polish History. St. Mary's church

September 14 was connected with the medieval history of Poland from the point of view of foreign historiographies. Members of Congress heard brilliant performances of professors from Russia, Germany, Canada, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine.

We visited Jagiellonian University, the oldest and one of the biggest in Poland and in Europe. Building Collegium Novum

Heart of Crakow - Market Square (square or "Main Market"), is surrounded by many beautiful buildings, literally each of which has its own history, inseparable from the history of the area and the city.

Market Square is one of the largest squares in Europe, and the first striking building is St. Mary's Church. According to a legend existing in Crakow, in the XIV century, the "colleague" of the trumpeter first noticed the horde of enemies towards to the city, and warned residents with heynal, but did not have time to finish it - his throat was pierced by Tatar arrow. Today trumpet, of course, is not squirming, pretending that he is shot, however, he smiles fun and waving to tourists which crowded the square.

Another prominent structure is a large area of ​​ 70-meter tower.

The main attraction of Crakow, of course, is the majestic Wawel castle on the hill above the Visla, where lived many royal families.

There is a local legend of a beautiful dragon, annoying the locals, and the King of Crakow, promising to give his darling daughter to wife savior. Braver is found, and he defeated the dragon by cunning and chemistry, mixing brimstone breathing dragon with water, but guy refused from the award - he wished to made him boots of dragon skin. Evidently he was very fashionable :)

Wawel Royal Castle

In Wawel you can spend more than one hour, considering every last detail, but usually quite crowded here and guides have to adjust too attentive and interested tourists. In fact, despite the beautiful legends, the history of the castle there was not so colorful as I would like - Wawel repeatedly burned, admired, destroyed, and during the Second World War in general was mined by the Nazis and miraculously survived.