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Europe still under construction
20 years of Cultural Capitals of Europe is more then enough reason to look back on a European-project, which without doubt can be called a success-story.
The Kraków 2000 Programme – the European Capital of Culture centred around three keywords: 'Thought, Spirituality and Creativity'. Its goal was to present significant spiritual, intellectual and artistic values which contribute to the common cultural heritage of both: Kraków and Europe.
The 600th anniversary of establishing the Kraków Academy gave an opportunity to present the city as an important centre of European thought. The spiritual character of Kraków was expressed in a number of projects including Codex Calixtinus conceived in Kraków, but carried out with the other European Cities of Culture of the Year 2000. Creativity was the keyword for various events presenting the exuberance of literature, music and art, including Stanislaw Wyspiański and Tadeusz Cantor Festivals.
What is characteristic, the cycle of events in Kraków, related to its role of a capital of culture in the year 2000, was extended to the period of several years. ,,Yet, Kraków did not profit from the fact of being the European cultural capital to make investments” - says Bogusław Sonik, Director of Kraków 2000 Festival Bureau and now a deputy in the European Parliament.
 A feature by Katarzyna Fortuna and Marianna Knap
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