{"id":1,"date":"2026-06-23T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whypoland.pl\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:30:25","slug":"slavic-pagan-ritual-in-krakow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/slavic-pagan-ritual-in-krakow\/","title":{"rendered":"How Noc Kupa\u0142y Keeps Slavic Traditions Alive in Krak\u00f3w"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dcca0fe4a9f1c5ffe2e05703951661fb\" style=\"color:#ffce00\"><strong>Every year, locals in Krak\u00f3w gather at the Zakrz\u00f3wek cliffs to celebrate <em>Noc Kupa\u0142y<\/em> (Kupala Night), the ancient Slavic festival of the summer solstice.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0c2ca9395acd63bb613da77a5450b141\" style=\"color:#ffce00\"><strong>This celebration is a chance to revive ancient pagan traditions, with people jumping and dancing around bonfires and throwing flower wreaths into the water (<em>Wianki<\/em>). These rituals continue throughout the whole night making a Slavic atmosphere you won&#8217;t find anywhere else.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f8850d3143ea2acfab9e199413346734\" style=\"color:#ffce00\"><strong>This year, I had the chance to celebrate it for the first time at <em>Zakrz\u00f3wek <\/em>Park with hundreds of other people, and it completely blew my mind.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You stumbled into a Slavic pagan ritual during your Krakow trip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whypoland.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}