CISIM 2010
Venue
The conference
activities will take place in the facilities of the AGH University of
Science and Technology in a town full of magic and incredible atmosphere
called Kraków (http://www.krakow.pl/en/?chl=EN ). The city on the Vistula River in
the southern part of Poland, was the Capital of Poland for five centuries.
It has accumulated one fourth of Polish total number of museum artifacts.
A visit to Kraków is a meeting with the most glorious era in our history.
The renaissance Royal Castle at Wawel, the gothic St. Mary's Basilica,
the historical trade pavilions of the Cloth Hall, the former separate
Jewish city of Kazimierz with its ancient synagogues in the southern
part of the town, one of the oldest universities of the international
renown, the Jagiellonian University, and the Nowa Huta district, absorbed
by Kraków together with its socialist-realist, industrial architecture,
are all places which make a visit to Kraków extremely worthwhile. Benefiting
from its geographical location, Kraków, aiming to become a meeting
place of many cultures and nations, has successfully claimed its position
as a Central European metropolis - a city of culture, art and science.
Several universities are located in Kraków and many world-famous representatives
of Polish culture reside in the city.
Near Kraków
there are plenty of significant and worth seeing places:
- Tyniec (12 km) –
the Benedictine Abby standing tall on the high bank of the Vistula River
- http://www.tyniec.info/, http://www.tyniec.benedyktyni.
pl/en/guide-for-cloister/
- Wieliczka (13 km)
– the salt mine in Wieliczka houses one of the largest mining museums
in Europe – http://www.kopalnia-wieliczka.
pl/index.php?id_language=2&id_ news=&action=&id_site=& language_change=1&
- Pieskowa Skała (20 km) – the Royal Castle on the rocky headland over the Prądnik Valley - http://www.pieskowaskala.pl/
- Ojców (24 km) –
a beautiful chapel hanging over the Pr±dnik River - http://www.ojcow.pl/english/
index_1_en.htm
- Niepołomicka Forest
(24 km) – the favourite hunting grounds of Polish kings, today
a vast protected area with nature reserve for European bison near Proszów
- http://www.puszcza-
niepolomicka.lua.pl/
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (45 km) – the sanctuary consisting of the Basilica of Our Lady of Angels, the monastery of Bernardine Fathers and a complex of over 40 chapels composed into a picturesque landscape, referred to as Kalwaria Paths - http://www.kalwaria.eu/
- Wadowice (60 km)
– the birth place of Karol Wojtyła – Pope John Paul
II - http://www.wadowice.pl/
aktualnosci.php
- Oświęcim – Auschwitz (70 km) – the State Museum in Auschwitz commemorates the Nazi death camp that existed here during World War II - http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/
- Rabka (70 km) –
one of the most important spas and holiday resorts in Southern Poland
- http://www.rabka.pl/index.php?
dzial=16&dok=79
- Zakopane (100 km)
– the largest Polish mountain town and the base for hiking trips to
every corner of the Tatra Mountains - http://www.ezakopane.pl/
poland/
