Hazardous Media: European Cyber Tour

June 2, 1997
Krakow, Poland

A parade of street musicians welcomes our arrival as soon as we enter the walls of the old town.

In the distance we hear a trumpet playing. We soon learn this is called the hejnal , the trupet call of Krakow.
It blares from the twin towers of the Kosicol Mariacki , (the Cathedral of St. Mary) every hour on the hour.

The trumpet song ends abrubtly, symbolic memory of when the trumpeter was shot down during the destruction of Krakow by the invading Tartars in 1241. They didn't like the sound of the old man's horn...

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	A parade of street musicians welcomes our arrival as soon as we enter the walls of the old town.
	In the distance we hear a trumpet playing. We soon learn this is called the hejnal , the trupet call of Krakow. It blares from the twin towers of the Kosicol Mariacki , (the Cathedral of St. Mary) every hour on the hour.
	The trumpet song ends abrubtly, symbolic memory of when the trumpeter was shot down during the destruction of Krakow by the invading Tartars in 1241. They didn't like the sound of the old man's horn...