We all know the French are superb at making wine, the Brits are great sailors and that nobody can play football quite as spectacularly as the Brazilians (save for one Argentinian who plays in a league ...

The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations.

The Polish alphabet has 32 letters, nine of which are unique. Considering that some of the letters form digraphs and even one trigraph, this adds up to a total of 17 signs, which you‘ll unfortunately ...

Every country has customs that shock and confuse foreigners. Polish people going about their daily business or celebrating special occasions often do things that will make your jaw drop, but are ...

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 ...

Warsaw, Poznań and Białystok, as well as many other Polish cities, were virtually razed to the ground during World War II, suffering under the subsequent marches of hostile armies. Meanwhile, Kraków, ...

Chopin's 24 Preludes are universally recognized as some of the composer's most characteristic works. Not only are they quintessential of his style, but are also deeply tied with upheavals in Chopin's ...

Throughout the centuries, Poland has been populated by diverse ethnic and linguistic groups, all of which have left their mark. Here's a look at some of the languages spoken in these lands – and a ...

In the southeastern corner of Poland, in the Low Beskids, lies a land called Lemkivshchyna. Nowadays remote and sparsely populated, this territory is the ancestral home of one of Europe’s most ...

The reconstruction of Warsaw in 1945 was an attempt to rebuild not only the individual monuments, but also to restore the entire historical makeup of the city. Many years later, the revitalisation of ...

The Saint Florian Psalter is known as one of the most valuable and mysterious Medieval manuscripts in Polish collections. Now that an illustration of Yoda ‒ or is it Nosferatu? ‒ has been spotted on ...

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 ...