Worth a Detour
Nowa Huta
A town planned from scratch in 1949 as a socialist ideal for steelworkers, with grand avenues and a famous rebel church.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Plac Centralny, KrakówDirections
- Getting There
- Tram 4 from the main station, about 25 minutes.
Why Go
Poland's communist government built Nowa Huta beside a giant steelworks, with wide boulevards fanning out from a central square in the socialist realist style.
It was meant to have no church, but residents fought for one, and the Ark of the Lord, shaped like Noah's ark, was finally consecrated in 1977.
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