Zamość, often called the 'ideal city', is a remarkable Renaissance settlement founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski and designed by ...

We explore the allure and complexities of utopian visions through the lens of reporters who journey to communities striving ...

Mickiewicz’s efforts to influence the politics and outlook of the Catholic Church in his lifetime came to nothing. He himself ...

‘Oh, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man!’ Most people know Popeye as a tough, spinach-eating sailor, a cartoon character created by American cartoonist E. C. Segar. But did you know who the real-life ...

There are two official languages in our country: Polish and Kashubian. In addition, we have dialects: Masovian, Lesser Poland dialect, Greater Poland dialect, Silesian, mixed ones in the east of the ...

The text explores the influence of utopian visions on architecture, showing how ambitious designs, even when unrealized, inspire progress. It highlights iconic works like the Crystal Palace, Plan ...

From its birth in 1908, Syrena Record had gone on to rapidly earn a place in Polish and international recording history – and all within some six years before WWI pushed Europe into chaos. In the ...

Why should a gambler remember their dreams? What does it mean to dream about blueberries or goose feathers? Here’s what old Polish dream books have to say. At the end of Book Eight of Pan Tadeusz, ...

With a history over 700 years old, Poland’s capital has dozens of historical palaces. Join us on a tour of eight particularly notable ones, highlighting the architecture, surroundings and history of ...

Money makes the world go around, and the writers and poets on it are no exception. Culture.pl checks how filthy lucre was treated by noted Polish authors from different eras – from the Renaissance to ...

‘I wanted to tell the story as well as possible and – especially for a non-Polish audience – to restore the Poles to the narrative, because it is a narrative from which they have been shamefully ...