Zamość, often called the 'ideal city', is a remarkable Renaissance settlement founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski and designed by ...

‘Oh, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man!’ Most people know Popeye as a tough, spinach-eating sailor, a cartoon character created by American cartoonist E. C. Segar. But did you know who the real-life ...

There are two official languages in our country: Polish and Kashubian. In addition, we have dialects: Masovian, Lesser Poland dialect, Greater Poland dialect, Silesian, mixed ones in the east of the ...

Mickiewicz’s efforts to influence the politics and outlook of the Catholic Church in his lifetime came to nothing. He himself ...

Let’s meet some of Poland’s women composers and pianists, from the 18th century to the present day – and get to know their contributions to the herstory of Polish music. This is how the German ...

With a history over 700 years old, Poland’s capital has dozens of historical palaces. Join us on a tour of eight particularly notable ones, highlighting the architecture, surroundings and history of ...

From its birth in 1908, Syrena Record had gone on to rapidly earn a place in Polish and international recording history – and all within some six years before WWI pushed Europe into chaos. In the ...

‘I wanted to tell the story as well as possible and – especially for a non-Polish audience – to restore the Poles to the narrative, because it is a narrative from which they have been shamefully ...

Despite being so little, in the near future, today’s kindergarten and elementary school students will be shaping the world around us. This is why they should be surrounded by beauty from a young age – ...

A patron of Silesian tradition and a rationalist which mocked national insecurities. An example of directorial precision and one of the greatest artists in the history of Polish Television’s theatre ...

With the passage of time, some words are lost to history and others find new meanings. Looking back at the words of Old Polish offers insight into fundamental questions of love, beauty, fear, ...

Why should a gambler remember their dreams? What does it mean to dream about blueberries or goose feathers? Here’s what old Polish dream books have to say. At the end of Book Eight of Pan Tadeusz, ...