KOSICE | European Capital of Culture 2013

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picture from opening ceremony

KOSICE (Košice/Slovakia) | European Capital of Culture 2013

Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 240 000. Košice is the second largest city in Slovakia.



In September 2008, the city of Košice, as the first in Slovakia, was awarded the prestige title of European Capital of Culture with its Interface project.

For more information about history or news of the project: CLICK HERE

Construction of projects:

Kulturpark
Revitalisation of a large area, the establishment of a new creative, educational and relaxing quarter of Košice, close to the historic core of the city.



Kunsthalle Kosice
The building of the indoor pool which is considered to be one of the architecturally most interesting buildings in Košice has not served its purpose for many years.



SPOTs
The transformation of exchanger stations into community centres and cultural points the SPOT s project is considered as progressive in community development



Street of crafts (Hrnčiarska street)




Reconstruction of amphitheater





Island of culture



Revitalisation of CITY park






CNN marked the city of Kosice as third best tourist destination for year 2013.


Aplication about project for mobile devices:
ANDROID
iPhone

[Kvietok]

Good Job Metro.

Let me post some additional Photos from opening ceremony from main stage.













foto by kosice-foto.sk

[metropoly_sk]

Greeting from international space station ISS for ECOC KOSICE during opening ceremony



language: russian, subtitles: slovak

[metropoly_sk]

Reconstruction of St. Elizabeth Catherdal

One of the easternmost gothic cathedral in EUROPE.

[dexter2]

Originally Posted by metropoly_sk

[B]Easternmost gothic cathedral in EUROPE.

Could you evaluate on that?

[metropoly_sk]

Originally Posted by dexter2

Could you evaluate on that?

St. Elizabeth Cathedral is in Kosice and this city is near ukrainian and hungarian borders.

[JohnnyMass]

Originally Posted by metropoly_sk

Reconstruction of St. Elizabeth Catherdal

What was reconstructed? The right tower?

[metropoly_sk]

Originally Posted by JohnnyMass

What was reconstructed? The right tower?

it is tower on the left (Matej´s tower)

btw ... also interior was reconstructing within ECOC 2013.

[hicotech]

Hi Dexter,
so what is the most eastern Gothic cathedral in Europe, then?

EDIT:
ah.. i googled a bit and i found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elisabeth_Cathedral

there is just "The St. Elisabeth Cathedral (Slovak: Dóm svätej Alžbety, Hungarian: Szent Erzsébet-székesegyház, German: Dom der Heiligen Elisbeth) is a Gothic cathedral in Košice."

but in Slovak version, there is
"Dóm svätej Alžbety je najväčší kostol na Slovensku s plochou 1 200 m² a kapacitou vyše 5 000 ľudí, a zároveň najvýchodnejšia gotická katedrála v Európe [1]."


basically its the same what is in the English version, but with note.. note is:
"Označovanie Dómu svätej Alžbety za najvýchodnejšie položenú katedrálu v Európe je bežné najmä v sprievodcovskej literatúre. Odborná literatúra tento primát vynecháva. Geograficky sú východnejšie (ale i omnoho južnejšie) položené gotické chrámy v Sedmohradsku, ktoré si však tento titul nenárokujú. Pre udržanie titulu na Slovensku sa zvyknú pridávať ťažko verifikovateľné dodatky ako: „najvýchodnejšie ležiaca katedrála západného typu“ In: Dóm sv. Alžbety – Košice"

in very free translation it means:
"Its common to say, that St. Elisabeth Cathedral is most eastern Gothic cathedral in Europe, especially in tourists guide literature. But specialized literature never told this. Geographically there are lot of Gothic cathedrals more to the east and also to the south, but they wouldn't claim this (easternmost) title."

[Kvietok]

Great PR for Kosice...however Im affraid not gonna help incrase amount of visitors any significant way, as there are only full fare flights via PRG and WIE currently available

[metropoly_sk]

[Douly]

Thanks for the updates.
When would be a good time to travel to Kosice this year?

Cheers,
From your 2013 ECC sister city (Marseille).

[Kvietok]

Originally Posted by Douly

Thanks for the updates.
When would be a good time to travel to Kosice this year?

Cheers,
From your 2013 ECC sister city (Marseille).

I’d recommend one of the summer months. (July-Aug-Sept) Talking about nitelife Summer is offering much more options - streets are alive and overcrowded by people enjoying their glass of beer on Main street, or wine and coffee in some quite small street. City center has special atmosphere I really love during the summer.
I believe summer would be best option also when talkin about Culture, as most of the cultural actions are scheduled on summer.

[Kvietok]

by: ONEpanDUO

[metropoly_sk]

EN: Street of handicrafts - Lapidary (Hrnčiarska street)
SK: Ulička remesiel - Lapidárium (Hrnčiarská ulica)

[metropoly_sk]

Spot @ Važecká street.

before


after

[metropoly_sk]

Program of year 2013 and more informations about project ECOC in Kosice:

http://www.kosice2013.sk/wp-content/...ook_EN_web.pdf

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Square of Sándor Márai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_M%C3%A1rai

[timo9]

[metropoly_sk]

Cultural cooperation between historic towns in Eastern Slovakia: Košice, Prešov, Levoča, Sabinov and Bardejov.

http://www.kosice2013.sk/en/projects/pentapolitana-2/