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

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 ...

Małe Instrumenty is an artistic group concentrating on sound quest within the sphere of small-size professional instruments, sound toys, peculiar musical inventions and other small sound-making ...

Fenek Studio is the Warsaw-based ceramics workshop of Tosia Kiliś and Agata Klimkowska, who met at the School of Form. Over the past decade, they’ve built a thriving practice rooted in hand-crafted ...

From grassy fields and wooden sheds to sleek steel-and-glass terminals, Poland’s airports have soared through a century of change. Whether it’s Warsaw’s Pole Mokotowskie where aviation dreams took ...

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 ...

From ancient lore of Slavic peoples through Polish Romantic literature of Mickiewicz up to contemporary inspirations and most recent archaelogical finds, Polish vampires continue to curdle blood and ...

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 ...

Forget the Old Town and the National Museum. Here are directions to the hotspots of counter-culture where you will encounter the laid-back yet edgy lifestyle and the rich underground scene that make ...

Modern Poland had no slavery, it had serfdom – a system that according to many contemporary researchers approached some of the most drastic realizations of slavery and played a key role in ...

They appear around the world – a white eagle, parallel bars of red and white, the profile of a shaggy bison in a field of grass. These are emblems of Poland and recognised by millions as symbolic of ...

Pieces of fresh raw pike, photo: East News The importance of pike in the Polish cuisine did not change in the subsequent centuries. The fish was first cooked in a stock made of spices and vegetables, ...