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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 most troublesome feature of Polish orthography is what linguists call complex consonant clusters ‒ series of consonants without any vowels. They occur in many languages, including English; for ...

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 ...

Poland has a remarkable and rich history when it comes to graphic design. The Polish School of Poster, well-known and respected around the globe, is but a piece of its graphic design legacy. Meet 18 ...

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 ...

Whether it is the harvest, celebrating fire, water, a new birth, a marriage ceremony, or death – Slavs knew how to mark their every day and every night. Let us see how much of the Slavic soul still ...

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, ...