When summer comes to its inevitable end, Poles start foraging for fungi. But what exactly is it that has Poles so mushroom mad? And how can one get started? Here's Culture.pl's guide to mushroom ...

Everyone knows that Zamość is one of the world’s few embodiments of the popular Renaissance concept of an ideal city. But it wasn’t only in the Renaissance that the perfect model of human settlement ...

‘Let’s not live from guest to guest’, Wielopolska warned. Stryjeńska emphasized that the most important thing is to ‘control your anger when you get into a rage’. Ipohorska in turn recalled the times ...

Like in most Central European countries, Christmas in Poland is a quaint and much-beloved affair. However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, ...

Discover the magic of Polish Christmas through the fascinating tales of its traditional objects. From the shimmering artistry ...

Ciprian Porumbescu, a Romanian composer with Polish roots, bridged cultures through music, creating works inspired by ...

Nearly 100 events in more than 20 countries. The international cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the Council of ...

The concept of a Grand Tour was introduced in the 1770s by an Englishman, Richard Lassels, to describe a journey serving to supplement education, develop aesthetic taste, acquire practical skills, ...

In the 17th century, Wojciech Bobowski lived as a captive in the Ottoman Empire. However, he was not idle in his captivity: he created the first ever anthology of traditional Ottoman music and ...

With a history of Polish migration dating back to the 1830s – and more than one million people of Polish descent in its metropolitan area today – Chicago is the traditional capital of the Polish ...

The devastation caused by World War II left hundreds of thousands of Polish forces and individuals displaced from their homes and families by the year 1945. Loved ones had been lost. Houses, flats – ...

In this 19th-century tale of hypnosis, women’s rights and shocking experiments, Culture.pl describes Napoleon Cybulski’s road to discovering adrenaline, the ‘hormone of fight or flight’. Napoleon ...