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Waking of Spring and Pucheroki Parade
Budzenie Wiosny i Pochód Pucheroków
Kraków, Poland
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Each spring Kraków revives the Pucheroki custom with a procession of costumed figures in tall decorated cone hats, carrying staffs and making lively folk noise to drive out winter. Run by a local folk group, the parade brings the old Kraków-region springtime ritual back to the city streets.
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Waking of Spring and Pucheroki Parade
Budzenie Wiosny i Pochód Pucheroków
Kraków, Poland
Each spring Kraków revives the Pucheroki custom with a procession of costumed figures in tall decorated cone hats, carrying staffs and making lively folk noise to drive out winter. Run by a local folk group, the parade brings the old Kraków-region springtime ritual back to the city streets.
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About Waking of Spring and Pucheroki Parade
Public spring procession in Kraków reviving the Kraków-region Pucheroki custom. Organized by Żywa Pracownia with its Żywa Trupa Kolędnica, it features singing, costumed Pucheroki with tall decorated cone hats and staffs, lively folk noise, straw and springtime ‘driving out winter’ energy. The 2025 edition started near the replica of the Światowid below Wawel, moved by the Wawel Dragon, through the Planty, toward the Main Market area.
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Public spring procession in Kraków reviving the Kraków-region Pucheroki custom. Organized by Żywa Pracownia with its Żywa Trupa Kolędnica, it features singing, costumed Pucheroki with tall decorated cone hats and staffs, lively folk noise, straw and springtime ‘driving out winter’ energy. The 2025 edition started near the replica of the Światowid below Wawel, moved by the Wawel Dragon, through the Planty, toward the Main Mark...
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Southern Poland (Lesser Poland/Galicia)
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