Widely neglected and under-utilized, Kraków’s historic ring of fortifications are in line for a new lease of life after a multi-million round of renovations was announced by City Hall. Boosted by PLN 1.5 million of EU funds, approximately PLN 16 million will be spent on the ongoing renovation of Fort Łapianka

A message in a bottle which makes reference to anti-communist demonstrations in 1970 has been found by builders at Gdańsk Central Train Station. The handwritten note on the back of a blank postal telegram was discovered hidden inside a wall cavity by bricklayers working on the modernisation of the station. The bottle

The Polish film industry has seen its fifth bumper year in a row with films grossing over $1 million at the box office. Despite the pandemic, movies such as Psy 3 and 365 Days helped Polish-produced films see collective box office revenues of over $44 million, according to film industry tracking

Hungary and Poland voiced strong opposition to an EU plan to “promote gender equality and women’s empowerment” as part of the bloc’s foreign policy. The latest clash with Budapest and Warsaw — which last week vetoed the EU’s budget and coronavirus recovery plan over opposition to a link to the rule

People are calling it a revolution. Since October 22nd, hundreds of thousands across Poland have been protesting—in five hundred and eighty cities and towns, by one organizer’s count. In some places, including the town of Kościerzyna, population twenty-four thousand, more than ten per cent of residents have taken to the

A new mural that uses special paint to improve air quality by neutralising harmful chemicals has appeared in Bielsko-Biała. Located on the city’s Mickiewicza Street, the mural covers an area of over 100 square metres on the side of a building. The wall was paint with Airlite which uses natural technology to

A revolutionary virtual reality concert took place in Poznań where the viewer could move among the orchestra. Zylia, an audio recording company, and the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra recorded a concert with not only physical navigation but uniquely navigable audio. The concert was recorded by using ZM-1 microphones.Zylia In a streaming first, the feat was

Gallery attendants at Poznań’s National Museum are strictly forbidden from wearing high-heeled shoes. This unusual regulation has been in place ever since a quiet Sunday afternoon in 2000 when a young art student sat quietly sketching a painting alongside the gallery’s pride and joy, Monet’s Beach in Pourville. Each time Lucyna, the

The chance finding of a WWII German labour camp document issued to one of its Jewish slave workers has revealed the astonishing story of how four separate groups of Holocaust rescuers helped a family of Polish Jews during the war and allowed three of them avoid annihilation. The document that was

A prized Polish painting stolen by Nazi Germany’s head of occupied Poland Hans Frank has been returned to the National Museum in Kraków after 80 years – after being found in Warsaw. The watercolour painting ‘Montmartre Cemetery in Paris’ by Julian Fałat from 1893, one of over 63,000 artworks that features