Nowa Huta active tour gives you a chance to spend a day in a perfect communist town.
Nowa Huta was built in the 50’s as an ideal communist town. Of course reality was different from the communist ideals. In fact Nowa Huta became a cradle of Solidarity opposition in Kraków. Nevertheless, you can still admire here communist urban planning and socialist realism architecture.
I want to invite you to a Nowa Huta active tour which provides lots of surprises and amusement. First of all I will unvail for you what was communist regime like. Life in the communist period was completely different. People had to struggle with lots of difficulties. That is why I want to tell you what was the communist reality for an avarage person.
Communist regime invested a lot of money to built antiaircrafts bunkers. They created an underground city. Recently, some of them have been opened to public, that’s why you can visit them. It is also possible to see as I call it the command centre of the universe: a secret steelworks management position hidden in the bunker.
But the history of this place is much older than communist times. That’s why we will first walk up the Wanda mound. This is probably prehistorical burial site. It associates with many legends and could be used by ancient astronomers. However, the trouth about it is buried in ancient history and we can now only guess the real purpose of this artificial hill. It is almost as misterious as Stonehenge.
After seeing all the monuments we will sit in a cafe to discuss the present of Nowa Huta. It is slowly changing into a modern vibrant district very popular among young people and families with children. Why is it getting popular? What does it have to offer to young generations? These are interesting questions and the answers prove that 70 years ago Nowa Huta was designed well and it is still functional and attractive for its citizens.