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- The Drowning of Marzanna
- Błędowska Desert
- Hot Beer
- The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity
- Fat Thursday
- Three Kings
- National Anthem
- Stanisław Poniatowski
- Polish Friends of Beer Party
- Midsummer's Night
- Disaster in Smolensk
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Christmas in Poland
- Polish Alcohol
- Wolf's Lair
- Kazimierz Pułaski
- Marek Kamiński
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Teodor Talowski
- Jan Karski
- No Thank You
- Czesław Miłosz
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Edward Gierek
- Blofeld
- Wojtek the bear
- Superstitions
- Enigma
- Irena Sendler
- General Wojciech Jaruzelski
- Krzysztof Komeda
- Białowieża National Park
- The Syrenka
- The Maluch
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- Daniel Libeskind
- Fryderyk Chopin
- Witkacy
- Władsyław Szpilman
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Andrzej Wajda
- Izabella Scorupco
- Zbigniew Cybulski
- Eugeniusz Bodo
- Roman Polański
- Stanisław Wyspiański
- Leon Schiller
- Max Berg
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
- Max Factor
- Rubinstein
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Marek Grechuta
- Polish food and drink
- Recommended reading
- National Football
- Grzane piwo/wino
- Poles you should know
- Discover Poland
- True crime
- National Holidays
- Euro 2012: The Draw
- John Paul II
- Solidarity
- Lech Wałęsa
- Creepy Poland
- The Pianist
- The Polish Dwarf
- Staypoland Hotel Reservation
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Błędowska Desert
Here’s sand in your eye: smack between Kraków and Katowice (in fact 40km from each city), lies Pustynia Błędowska - a bonafide, genuine, centuries-old desert.... -
No Thank You
Polish tipping etiquette can be confusing for foreigners. While in other civilized countries it’s ... -
National Anthem
Whether you call it “Poland is Not Yet Lost,” “Song of the Polish Legions of Italy” or “Dąbrowski’s Mazurka,” they all describe the same thing: Poland’s national anthem.... -
Three Kings
The holiday of Three Kings or Trzech Króli (January 6) marks the end of the Christmas season in impressive style throughout Poland.... -
Polish Friends of Beer Party
Sure, it started out as a joke: In 1990 satirist Janusz Rewinski formed the Polish Friends of Beer Party (Polska Partia Przyjaciol Piwa or PPPP in Polish) to promote the country’s second most beloved beverage during the new shift in government.... -
Grzane piwo/wino
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.... -
Wolf's Lair
To the English it’s Wolf’s Lair, to the Poles Wilczy Szaniec. Adolf Hitler, however, would have used the term Wolfschannze.... -
The Maluch
Like the Czech Škoda and the East German Trabant, the Polish Maluch has served several purposes during its lifetime; a Godsend for families behind the iron curtain, source of merriment for smirking foreigners and now, as a cult icon for commie nostalgists.... -
Marek Kamiński
Born in Gdańsk on March 24, 1964, Marek Kamiński ranks as Poland’s greatest living explorer, and in 1995 became the first person in the world to reach both Poles unaided in the same year.... -
Marek Grechuta
With his catchy spoken lyrics, roaring drink habit and rumoured schizophrenia, Marek Grechuta was the embodiment of tortured genius, his place in Polish music history cast in stone – think of this guy as the Polish Bob Dylan.... -
Krzysztof Kieślowski
The late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941- 1996) is known and respected the world over as a maker of great feature films.... -
Stanisław Wyspiański
In the 1890s, a new wave of artistic energy inspired by the Western European Art Noveau style rolled through the Polish lands.... -
Max Factor
Max Faktor (or Faktorowicz), born in Łódź in 1877, has come to be regarded as the father of modern day cosmetics.... -
The Drowning of Marzanna
Despite the strong Catholic character of modern Poland, some pagan traditions have endured. One of the most blithely bizarre and eyebrow-raising is the spring equinox celebration known as the Drowning of Marzanna (Topienie Marzanny)....
Białowieża National Park
Around 100,000 nature lovers visit the park annually, most on organized tours. Much of the park is protected and visitors must be accompanied by a guide. A number of companies in Warsaw organize individual or group day trips to the park, including Stay Poland (ul. Nowy Swiat 29-3, tel. 829 40 72, office@staypoland.com). You can also find out more by calling the multi-lingual tourist office in the town of Białowieża, the gateway to the park, at tel. (85) 681 22 95. The best website is the park’s own superbly detailed site, found at: www.bpn.com.pl
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