Krakow/Nowa Huta Travel Guide
From Wikitravel
Nowa Huta is a district of Krakow in Poland. It is situated in the east of the town north of the Vistuale river. It is the largest Krakow district by area. Nowa Huta reently became one of the top tourist destination in Krakow as a post communist district with very tipical socrealistic architecture.
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The area of Nowa Huta was a vertile countryside landscape in the Middle Ages. In the 6th century a mound was errected there by the Vistula People, one of the Polish tribes. In the 12th century the monks errected a monastry in Mogila. After Poland was liberated and occupied by the Soviet Union the communists built the biggest European stealmil called Nowa Huta (New Stealmil) from 1949 to 1955. The new district was biult arround the Square Plac Centralny (Central Square) and the Allee Aleja Roz (Allee of Roses). It is one of the best exampels of Socrealist Architecture in Europe. It was not until the 1970s when the first church was biult there and sacrified by Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, as Nowa Huta should become the first atheist district in Poland.
