Turystyka i kultura w Kazimierzu Dolnym

Abstract

Kazimierz Dolny is currently the icon of polish culture and tourism. Crutial meaning in tourism development has the cultural heritage of the town – outstanding medieval and renaissance architecture, harmonious with Vistula landscape and its precious loess ravines. With the population of about 2000, it is inhabited by many prominents: directors, actors, journalists, composers, musicians, painters, architects, photographers, goldsmiths, poets, culture and nature experts, art historians, entomologists, sociologists and other scholars, who create a specific conglomeration – they get the inspiration from the place, as well impress a stigma on it. Thanks to them, but also thanks to numerous cultural projects, meetings, concerts, exhibitions and festivals, Kazimierz Dolny is concidered to be a “mecca” for artists. This valuable cultural heritage was appreciated in 1994, while it entered the prestigious List of Historic Monuments in Poland. The unique attractiveness of Kazimierz Dolny is a reason for considerably growing amount of tourists. The researches conducted in 2012 prove that dynamic tourism development is not always accompanied with inhabitants' sattisfaction – what is relevant for tourists and enterpreneurs is not always accepted by the inhabitants.