The "Invisible Exhibition" in the Polish capital Warsaw offers an opportunity to understand what it is like to be sightless, as visitors are steered round in blacked-out rooms by blind guides.
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It's a dream come true for train fanatics -- for under 400 euros, a railway museum in the western Polish town of Jaworzyna Slaska is offering up steam engines, some of which are more than a century-old, for adoption.
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Citta, a 33-year old Indian elephant living in the zoo of Krakow, Poland, has forecasted a victory for Poland in their opening Euro-2012 match against Greece. Given a choice between two melons, the elephant gobbled up the one with..
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Top-notch specialists have made Poland's city of Kalisz Europe's hub for piano restorers, with aging instruments being trucked in from far and wide for a new lease of life.
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There’s no escaping the clichés, Cracow is a pure gem, a little Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque jewel. Poland’s former capital city is, beyond question, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. A UNESCO World Heritage Site sinc..
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There is a lift, but you have to go down by foot: 378 steps on a narrow staircase lead the visitor to a depth of 64 metres for an astonishing visit to the inhabited bowels of the earth...
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Like many western Europeans, I thought Poland was one huge potato crop plain. It wasn't therefore the first destination that sprang to mind when I decided to have a bit of a change and test the powder snow elsewhere than in the Al..
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Like many western Europeans, I thought Poland was one huge potato crop plain. It wasn't therefore the first destination that sprang to mind when I decided to have a bit of a change and test the powder snow elsewhere than in the Al..
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Shortly after opening, the Hotel Stary won the 2007 Prix Villégiature award for “Best Hotel Interior Design in Europe”. A well-deserved award that salutes a unique ambience and decor in the heart of old Cracow.
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There are, of course, the great classics of Polish cuisine, the barszcz, zurek, and kotlet schabowy whose very name can set the faint-hearted tourist aquiver. It’s a shame, because although certainly a “working class” cuisine, it ..
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From 28th June to 6th July, the 18th Festival of Jewish Culture will take place in Cracow, in the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz. A district which is coming back to life and trying to find itself, between quest for the past, tren..
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In 2003, one of the stars of the Turin Salone del Gusto (Taste Show), organised by Slow Food, was a Polish cheese unknown to western Europeans, which arrived in Italy almost illegally: Oscypek (pronounced “ossaypec”).
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A mild aroma of iodine hangs in the air in Gdansk, originating from the nearby sea that has shaped the identity of the thousand-year-old city. Water, an element whose riches are well tapped, has maintained its central role in the ..
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