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- Euro 2012 in Poznan
- Lost Poznań
- Poznań Station
- What locals like and hate
- Andrzejki
- Independence Day
- Hot Beer
- The Enigma Code
- UFOs
- Hindenburg
- Ghosts!
- Poznan In Your Pocket in iPaper
- Local heroes & Villains
- Napoleon
- Wielkopolska Uprising 1918-1919
- J.A.P. Kaczmarek
- For Your Freedom and Ours
- Meteorite Craters
- St. Martin’s Day
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Ghosts!
Those foolhardy enough to face the supernatural should consider a spot of ghost hunting. The former Royal Castle (C-1, Góra Przemysła) is the place you need to head to after dark.... -
Local heroes & Villains
As Poland's fifth biggest city and one of its oldest, it's only sensible to assume that a few famous (and infamous) people have hailed from these parts.... -
What locals like and hate
During June 2011 Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper invited 21 journalism student s from City University London to visit the country’s largest cities to assess whether they are ready to host the upcoming Euro 2012 football tournament.... -
St. Martin’s Day
One of Poznań’s younger traditions is the celebration of St. Martin’s name day on November 11.... -
UFOs
Wielkopolska is something of a hotspot for the paranormal, and it’s not just the ghosts we’ve warned you about that go bump in the night.... -
Meteorite Craters
Some 10,000 years ago, the unsuspecting inhabitants of the forests north of what is now Poznan were in for a nasty surprise when several chunks of white-hot rocks slammed into the earth at high speed.... -
Independence Day
While other parts of the world celebrate November 11 as Remembrance Day, Armistice Day and Veterans Day, for Poles the end of the Great War is perhaps even more significant as it saw Poland finally regaining its independence, having been partitioned by Austria, Germany and Russia for the previous 123 years.... -
For Your Freedom and Ours
For Your Freedom and Ours By Lynne Olsen and Stanley Cloud Essential reading for anyone with a fleeting interest in WWII, and a book that demands to be read in one sitting.... -
Lost Poznań
An exploration of the back streets of Poznań reveals countless corners hitherto left untouched by the guidebooks, and this is never more evident than standing at the foot of Góra Przemysła (C-1/2).... -
Wielkopolska Uprising 1918-1919
Since the Third Partition of 1795 Poland had effectively ceased to be a country, wiped off the map and carved between Imperial Russia, Prussia and Habsburg Austria.... -
Hot Beer
There’s a number of ways to survive winter in Poland, and we’ve tried them all; from dressing up like Eskimos to sitting at home in our pants.... -
Napoleon
A cult figure in military history, Napoleon Bonaparte made several visits to what is now modern day Poland, with Poznań hosting him a couple of times during his forays into the east....
J.A.P. Kaczmarek
Back in Poznań, an inspired Kaczmarek and his friend, Grzegorz Banaszak, would write and play music in campus toilets – good acoustics and reminiscent of the candle-lit confinement of Grotowski’s laboratory. Their Eighth Day Orchestra, for that is what this duo, later trio, called itself, began by accompanying the performances of the legendary Poznań theatre group from which it took its name, eventually moving on to independent road tours abroad. When in 1989 Kaczmarek got a scholarship to the US, little did he know he was gone for good.
Barely able to pay his rent, and sustaining his wife and four children on gold cards, J.A.P. kept up appearances, drank cocktails with millionaires, and wondered how many days were left till bankruptcy. Slowly but surely, first theatre, than the film industry, propostions began to roll in. Music for the films Unfaithful, Dreamer, Lost Souls and a number of Agnieszka Holland pictures make up his portfolio. With over 30 soundtracks under his baton and an Oscar for the score of Finding Neverland on the mantle of his L.A. home, Kaczmarek found his way back to Poznań in June 2006 for the premiere of Oratorium 1956 – a composition commemorating the bloody Poznań uprising of 1956.