The Zabłocie district in the southern Polish city of Kraków has been included on the list of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods that has been compiled by the editors of Time Out, a weekly publication based in London.
The Zabłocie district in the southern Polish city of Kraków has been included on the list of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods that has been compiled by the editors of 'Time Out’, a weekly publication based in London.Takenori Okada/Unsplash.com/CC0; Time Out Magazine
Time Out singles out the Oscar Schindler’s Factory Museum as a must for visitors to the Zabłocie district.
It traces the history of Kraków under the German occupation in World War II, including the activities of Oskar Schindler, a German enterpreneur and a member of the Nazi party, who saved some 1,200 Jews by employing their in his factories, one of which was located in today’s Zabłocie.
Time Out editors also recommend a tour of the „strikingly brutalist Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK”, adding that with its abundance of residential buildings „Zabłocie is at once lived-in and lively: a well-blended cocktail of culture, history, dining and local life.”
Comparing the place with what it looked like a decade ago, Time Out writes:
There’s been a rejuvenation of the riverside parks. Roastery coffee houses, pour-your-own craft beer spaces and ramen kitchens with robot waiters have all opened up shop.
Notre-Dame-du-Mont in the French city of Marseilles is in the top place in the ranking, followed by Mers Sultan in Casablanca, Morocco, and Pererenan, a seaside village on the western coast of the Indonesian island of Bali.
Kraków’s Zabłocie is in eleventh place, ahead of Little River in Miami and Saint-Henri in Montreal.
Source: Rzeczpospolita, Time Out/YouTube/@TimelapseHyperlapse24
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