The exhibition 'The Monument. Central and Eastern Europe 1918-2018' at Warsaw's Xawery Dunikowski Museum transforms monuments ...

Like in many other European countries, the arrival of summer is celebrated on St. John’s Eve in Poland. While part of the Polish custom ‒ bonfires, singing and dancing ‒ resembles other celebrations ...

From grassy fields and wooden sheds to sleek steel-and-glass terminals, Poland’s airports have soared through a century of ...

When the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan at the end of WWII, one man in particular was affected by the death and destruction. Having helped create the weapon, he dedicated the rest of his life to ...

Though Warsaw has rebuilt from ruins, its streets still bear the scars of the 1944 Uprising – bullet holes, shattered ...

We’re hard-working According to a recent report by the European Committee, Poles are Europe’s second hardest working nation. The report shows that professionally active Poles spend on average 42.5 ...

Old Polish cuisine is well-known for its abundance of fish dishes, and foreign visitors have long observed that the art of preparing the little fellows was at a very high level of sophistication in ...

The most troublesome feature of Polish orthography is what linguists call complex consonant clusters ‒ series of consonants without any vowels. They occur in many languages, including English; for ...

Hollywood has a prolific history of spicing up every story they use as the basis for a film script. The Zookeeper’s Wife is hardly an exception, so if you are dying to know which parts of this ...

A surprisingly large number of Hollywood characters have names that sound Polish to US ears, but whose Polish background is never discussed, and whose names few real Poles actually have. Never fear, ...

Marrying for love? You must be kidding. In old Poland, matchmaking sooner resembled the negotiation of an economic pact. Nonetheless, the entire process was accompanied by many colourful elements, ...

Some claim that the Polish language is one of the hardest to master in the world. This may be true as Polish indeed has its intricacies. Polish slang however is pretty straightforward and also quite ...