Krakow: 'defaced by the debauchery and drunkeness' of British stag parties Last year, more Britons went to Krakow than any other nationality, making up 20 per cent of the 1,030,570 foreign visitors. That has spurred the growth of a seedier side to the city, with strip clubs, brothels and prostitution flourishing. The archbishop has now urged the faithful to attend special prayer meetings every night for the next month in a church on Krakow's historic market square. "We can't be passive, and have to make a great effort to defend the dignity of the human body, conjugal love and the formation of a young person's conscience," he said. Although bringing in welcome money to the local economy, British stag parties have acquired a particular reputation for yobbish behaviour. Many bars and restaurants now ban them. One nightclub waitress, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Telegraph she often had to deal with "mad" British stag parties. "I once witnessed a drinking competition when the person who won was the first to throw up," she said. I also saw a group of men walking naked from the waist down. Stags can be a real handful, and life is easier without them. Among the organisers of stag-dos is Party Krakow, a British-Polish firm. Their "Pimped Kracking Weekend" package offers everything from live-fire shooting sessions with Kalashnikovs, through to an evening of "oil wrestling" with semi-naked women, washed down with nine different traditional Polish vodkas. The firm's managing director, Dawid Nowak, 32, claimed the bishop had over-exaggerated the problems. "Krakow has been a party city since Renaissance times, and it only stopped being one when the communists were in power," he said. Even now, there are only eight strip clubs, which isn't that many in a city that also has 100,000 students. Mr Nowak, whose website claims that he likes "to have his daily breakfast served by two or three gorgeous strippers," added: "The bishop may complain, but the fact is that the women here are gorgeous, and they like to get drunk and party hard. And as for British tourists - they are louder than the others, yes, and sometimes misbehave, but 90 per cent are OK, and they are better behaved than the Polish groups who come here. However, Bishop Dziwisz's stance appears to be backed by Poland's political leaders. Donald Tusk, who was prime minister until last month, recently described the behaviour of "Englishmen" in Krakow and other Polish cities as "loutish." The bishop's remarks also echo a wider concern in the Catholic Church over the risk to Krakow's long-established reputation as the ecclesiastical heart of Poland. Its cathedral, churches and sanctuaries provide a rich religious history and heritage, and the city was also the home of Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, for many decades. The current main sanction for wayward stag party members is a night in the local drunk tank, a notoriously harsh institution that is a product of Poland's own problems with alcoholics. Inmates wear nothing more than surgical robes, have no access to a telephone and can be detained for up to 12 hours. However, in the view of some more extreme British revellers, there would likely be no more fitting place for the stag to end up.