Serfdom (Pol. pańszczyzna) is a development of a specific feudal relationship between the landowner and the tenant, in the Western feudal system usually referred to as socage. In its most typical ...

In the exhibition 'Raw Earth, Rare Earth,' her version of an allegorical calendar, Alicja Biała presents plants as active actors in the ecosystem, capable of restoring and supporting the natural ...

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 ...

From faux harems and minaret-topped palaces to Moorish smoking rooms and Ottoman fantasies, Poland’s architectural past ...

This Polish Christmas Eve tradition includes 12 dishes and desserts which reflect Poland's rich, multicultural culinary past.

What links a Polish Romantic bard, a 20th‑century reporter, and a children’s story about a maharaja’s kindness? India. Its ...

You’ve heard of international superstitions like ‘don’t walk under a ladder’, but how about some exclusive to Poland? The 13 ...

Words portray ideas, while fonts – the spirit of the times. In their book Paneuropa, Kometa, Hel (Pan-Europa, Comet, Helium), ...

They shoot sensational blockbusters, sentimental melodramas, spectacular science fiction films and dark crime stories, ...

There is no Polish cuisine without soured milk, sour cream, and fresh cheeses. To the uninitiated, the range of dairy foods ...

Alain Kohler, a Swiss physicist and Chopin specialist, found a new photograph that most likely depicts Fryderyk Chopin. The ...

Julian Tuwim was an iconoclast, a revolutionary, a poet of the regime, a Jewish mystic who turned to communism in order to ...