Visitors to Krakow can no longer take home a picture with themselves next to the city’s iconic lajkonik horseman. The municipality has refused the resourceful impersonator of the legendary Tartar a permit to earn his living for another year through posing for tourist cameras on the Rynek Glowny central square. This way the city hall wants to protect the integrity of the traditional lajkonik figure that every year leads a historical pageant through Krakow’s streets on the first Thursday after the feast of Corpus Christi.

Source: www.krakow-info.com