You Won’t Believe What These Trees Look Like For over half a century, why Crooked Forest, or Krzywy Las (kshih-vih lass) looks like J’s has stumped scientists all over the world. (Just as its its pronunciation has befuddled non-Polish speakers for centuries). Regularly growing pine tress, surround this patch of 400 trees and cover roughly three-quarters […]
5 Great Reasons to Visit Wroclaw Why visit the southwestern Polish city? Pronounced Vrotz-wav, it is located in southwestern Poland on the Oder River. With over 640,000 residents, Wroclaw is Poland’s fourth largest city. The sights, attractions, as well as panoramas attract nearly 1/5 of the city’s population in students. Thousands of Polish tourists visit Wroclaw […]
Autumn – What to do in Poland Autumn is a perfect time to visit Poland if you want to see the wide selection of the country’s attractions. It is the time when in the citires the cultural season is beginning, and the pressure on the hotel rooms is rising. In the countryside, the golden Polish […]
The European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes Or The Black Ribbon Day is the international remembrance day for victims of totalitarian ideologies, specifically totalitarian communist regimes, Stalinism, Nazism and fascism. About On 23rd of August 1939, two totalitarian states – Nazi Germany and Soviet Union – concluded a Non-Aggression pact. An […]
Life in the camp Living conditions During the first several months, the prisoners’ rooms had neither beds nor any other furniture. Prisoners slept on straw-stuffed mattresses laid on the floor. After reveille in the morning, they piled the mattresses in a corner of the room. The rooms were so overcrowded that prisoners could sleep only […]
Essentials of the Auschwitz – Free eBook Specially for you we have created a very informative Guide Book about Auschwitz-Birkenau. What can you find in it? History of KL Auschwitz Liberation of KL Auschwitz Interesting facts about Auschwitz Auschwitz escapes and survivors Memorial and Museum Auschwitz–Birkenau today What you can see and experience Reasons to […]
Polish Railroads Polish Railroads are quite cheap and comfy but not the fastest way of traveling around Poland. Trains let us to reach every important place of our country, unfortunately they aren’t the most modern vehicles so those who decide to travel by train need to be very patient. 400 km journey, for example between […]
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The oldest and continuously operating cinema in the world is located in Szczecin! It was founded in 1909 and named “Pionier” which means pioneer. Cinema has its place in the Guinness Book of Records. Here you can watch a movie sitting at a table, as in the cafeteria. Kino Pionier – 1909 In Chelm under the […]
Polish Food Pierogi, rosol, schabowy, bigos… have you ever heard about any of these? We hope you have, but for those of you who don’t know what we’re talking about – these are the names of some of the most popular (and of course delicious) Polish dishes. Unfortunately, there is a very small chance that […]