Communism Tour in Krakow, Poland | A Walk Around Nowa Huta
In 1949 Poland's socialist government created Nowa Huta - a utopian prototype for the communist city of the future. It was a place of rapidly expanding industry including the largest steel mill in the country producing over 7 millions tons of steel annually and home to 100,000 people. Building the perfect city is no easy task and things didn't go completely to plan, as I found out when I took a walk around it in 2017.
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Nowa Huta: The Socialist Realist Suburb of Krakow, Poland
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The Socialist Realist suburb of Nowa Huta is an interesting place to check out if you're visiting Krakow.
This unique neighborhood in Krakow is one of only two entirely pre-planned socialist realist cities in the world.
Wandering around Nowa Huta you'll find wide, tree-lined streets, lakes, parks, old churches, and plenty of communist architecture showcasing the deliberate social engineering done here.
Right now more than 200,000 people live in Nowa Huta and it's one of the most populous areas of Krakow.
To get to Nowa Huta take the Tram 4 from the Krakow Old Town. Get off at Plac Centralny, the Central Square in Nowa Huta.
It takes a few hours to explore all of the different things to do in Nowa Huta. It's definitely worth checking out, especially if you're interested in architecture and communist history.
Communist tour Nowa Huta in Krakow Poland
communist tour Nowa Huta in Krakow Poland May 2011.
Communism Tours, Krakow, Poland
Starting off our Communism Tour in a 1978 Trabant.
Communist Cars tour of Nowa Huta, Krakow
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Communist Tour of Nowa Huta , the best guided tour of communist district of Nowa Huta in Cracow .
KRAKOW - Our CrazyGuides Tour in a Comedy Trabant
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Off we go to Nowa Huta a fascinating Communist satellite town of Krakow. Crazy Qba is our guide as he drives the Plastic Fantastic Trabant leaving a trail of blue smoke behind.
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Nowa Huta – Socialist Realism: The Communist Upotia in Poland
If you want to know more about how a communist utopia (utopian socialism) used to look like there is no better place to visit then Nowa Huta, a city district of Krakow in Poland. This neighbourhood was built in the 1950s in communist Poland. The style that was implemented was called Socialist Realism. It gives you a perfect way to look at how the communists envisioned the future.
History Hustle presents: Nowa Huta – Socialist Realism: The Communist Upotia in Poland.
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This history on location was filmed on the 3rd of May 2019 in Nowa Huta Krakow, Poland.
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Kraków Communism Tour by Crazy Guides
31/05/2009 - Me, Alba and Lori flying at the altitude of 0 ft on a Trabant 601
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Communist Tour by Red Adventure, Krakow, Nowa Huta 2009.
Red Adventure Communist Tour of Nowa Huta, 2009.
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Krakow Communism Tour - COMMUNIST CARS
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The Story of Nowa Huta: Kuba Snopek | reSITE 2016
Pope went to the construction site, and brought a stone from the Moon and put it to the facade. Fascinating stories of cities and churches built under the communist regime, thanks to the community, by Kuba Snopek, Architect and reasercher from Strelka Institute.
Presentation from Urban Combine: Shared Desires - Break Boundaries at reSITE 2016.
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The Crazy Guides Communism Tour.
Kraków Crazy Communist Tour
I did a Crazy Communist Tour whilst in Kraków. You get to experience a ride in an old East German Trabant.
Nowa Huta - labirynt pamięci (English subtitles)
Historia Nowej Huty w relacjach 12 mieszkańców Nowej Huty - przedstawicieli dwóch pokoleń i rozmaitych zawodów.
Nowa Huta - The Labyrinth of Memory
The history of Nowa Huta, as told by its builders and inhabitants. Twelve first-hand tales on different periods of the city's past and presence, delievered by people of two generations and different professions: steelworker, architect, journalist, painter, office worker, film director and others.
W filmie udział wzięli:
- prof. Stanisław Juchnowicz - architekt-urbanista, projektant Nowej Huty w zespole Tadeusza Ptaszyckiego w latach 1950-1954
- Krystyna Gil - założycielka Stowarzywszenia Kobiet Romskich, mieszkanka Nowej Huty od 1954r.
- Jerzy Ridan - reżyser filmowy, mieszkaniec Nowej Huty od 1964r.
- Elżbieta Borysławska - artysta-plastyk, urodzona w Nowej Hucie
- Józef Zięba - wysiedlony wraz z najbliższymi w 1951r. z domu rodzinnego w Bieńczycach
- Janina Drąg - uczestniczka obrony Krzyża Nowohuckiego w 1960r. mieszkanka Nowej Huty od 1956r.
- Tadeusz Świerzewski - starszy mistrz w Stalowni Martenowskiej do 1990r. mieszkaniec Nowej Huty od 1955r.
- Stanisława Olchawa - gastronomik, współwłaścicielka restauracji Stylowa, mieszkanka Nowej Huty od 1964r.
- Stanisław Gawliński - fotoreporter tygodnika Głos Nowej Huty od 1960r.
- dr Jan Franczyk - dziennikarz, współzałożyciel Chrześcijańskiej Wspólnoty Ludzi Pracy w 1979r., internowany w stanie wojennym, redaktor naczelny gazety Głos - Tygodnik Nowohucki, urodzony w Nowej Hucie
- ks. prałat Jan Bielański - w 1980r. objął duszpasterstwo III rejonu parafii w Bieńczycach, od 1983r. proboszcz erygowanej parafii św. Brata Alberta w Czyżynach (konsekrowanej w 1994r.)
film dokumentalny
reżyseria Marcin Kaproń, 37 min.
produkcja Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa
2009
COMMUNIST WARSAW ????????
Promo of my walking tour video.
www.CrazyGuides.com - Communism Tours in Krakow
Legendary Communism Tours of Krakow's Nowa Huta district in Trabant cars. Covered by the BBC, Lonely Planet, Reuters, NY Times!
Nowa Huta: A Communist Planned Workers' Town
A fascinating corner of Kraków is Nowa Huta, an enormous planned workers’ town that offers a glimpse into the stark, grand-scale aesthetics of the communists. It’s a company town, purpose-built from scratch to house the 38,000 workers of the Lenin Steelworks. Today the steelworks is mostly closed, and it's a bedroom community for Kraków. I find wandering its numbered sectors very evocative.
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