Wianki Krakow 2010 - Midsummer Night Celebration
26 June 2010
The Casting of the Wreaths, in Polish Wianki, is a great open-air spectacle that follows on the traditional rites of Midsummer night or St John’s Night, brimming with magic and auguries: one of the most important festivities of the ancient Slavic culture.
Wianki is known also as the night of the god (or goddess) Kupala, and celebrated during the summer solstice, it was the festivity of unity, the congress of fire and water, Sun and Moon, man and woman, fertility and harvest, and joy and love.
This night crowds of Krakow people have for years been gathering in the second half of June on the embankments of the Vistula at the foot of Wawel Hill to listen to concerts, watch open-air events and firework shows, and, of course, enjoy themselves together.
This year join them too!
