October in Poland – the leaves are turning yellow and red; the days are getting shorter and while shopping for your next warm ...

When you consider that any professional pianist today would hope to have a minimum of 30 engagements a year - and a busy one perhaps more than 100 - it comes as something of a surprise to learn that ...

The sweet, and at times dark, story of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s beautiful headquarters on one of Warsaw’s most ...

The colourful Polish tradition of making ‘pisanki’, or Easter eggs, is more or less a thousand years old. There are dozens of regional varieties, and the most outstanding specimens are exhibited in ...

A big round of applause, standing ovations, shiny faces in the spotlight – there’s only one place where you can tap your ...

Horror never fully settled into Polish cinema, however, it took off in video games. Here’s a review of some of the most ...

In July 2011, over 200 Poles gathered in the shadow of Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and danced to Super Junior and T-ara – in ...

In 1843, a prince with a death sentence hanging over him moved into a derelict townhouse on Paris’s Île Saint-Louis, filled ...

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

Polish culture is filled with plenty of costume ideas to choose from. Cinephiles, history buffs and those looking for ...

In the opera ‘Mothers of Kherson’, music becomes the voice of mothers heroically fighting to get back their stolen children.

Poland is home to different ethnic and religious minorities, all of whom are an important part of its history and current social make-up. Here is a closer look at the status of the Muslim community of ...