Gertrude of Poland, a duchess with royal lineage and deep piety, stands as the first Polish writer known by name. Her Latin ...

A new profile on Spotify, launched on 3 January 2025 to mark Poland’s Presidency in the EU Council, serves as a musical ...

This podcast series delves into the connections between music, culture, and literature, exploring how traditions shape Europe ...

The 'Celluloid Solidarity' podcast series is part of the Solidarity on Screen project, promoting Polish films centered on the theme of solidarity. It features five episodes of narrative monologues ...

In Poland, there are many places visited ghosts, black dogs, devils and witches. Taking a innocent stroll, one might vanish without a trace in the forest or be unfortunate enough to step into a cursed ...

In this age of high-speed (and low-cost) air travel, the question of what travelling was like in earlier times rarely comes to mind. We usually imagine a man on a horse or donkey who, like Don Quixote ...

When did the Polish flag appear? What colour is it actually? What is the proper way to display it? What should you do with it when a storm is coming? And who wrote poems about it? Worthy of its very ...

Tourists coming to Poland may have heard of Kraków and Warsaw, but in the south, there is a beautiful, hidden treasure: Zakopane, a town near the scenic Tatra Mountains. Culture.pl’s US intern ...

Each year, on 19th April, in commemoration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, thousands of daffodils appear on the streets of Warsaw. These flowers, however, are made of paper, and ...

In his book 'Reporterów sposób na życie' (A Reporter’s Way of Life, 1983), Marek Miller quotes Małgorzata Szejnert: ‘The reporter is not a subject. She is not a film star. Nobody cares what she thinks ...

According to research conducted in 2017, 60% of Poles would like to live in a villa with a garden, while only 10% prefer a flat in a multi-family building over having their own house. It seems that ...

Pablo Picasso, Michel Foucault and Margaret Atwood were all in Poland at various points during its period under the communist regime. These visits proved to be quite influential – and ultimately ...