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This July Krakow hosts it annual festival of Jewish culture, which brings crowds from around the world.

The Jewish Cultural Festival - now in its 18th year - has become a major part of the cultural calendar of Krakow, Poland's cultural capital.

Events start on 1 July and last until 9 July with free open air concerts, art exhibitions, plays, films, workshops and guided walks.

Most of the action focuses on the Kazimierz distinct the former Jewish ghetto and once a separate city from Krakow.

During the day the district's synagogues host a number of events, but the evening concerts on ulica Szeroka literally Wide Street but one of Kazimierz's main squares attract thousands to the area.

This year, however, the centre of Krakow and its main square (Rynek Glowny) will also be hosting some concerts.

The main square is the focus of many visitors' attention with its surrounding bars and cellar pubs and nearby castle, but Kazimierz has much to offer.

During the festival, tours take visitors around the sights of Kazimierz, including the Jewish cemetery, Apteka pod Orlem (Pharmacy under the Eagle) - the only non-Jewish business to remain open within the World War II ghetto and now a national museum and the Factory of Enamelled Utensils, once run by Oscar Schindler and made famous in the Spielberg film.


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