Kraków’s Crazy Communist History
Crazy Guides’ Communism Tours are not your average guided tour. With a little help from a ‘Crazy Guide’ driving around in a brightly painted Eastern bloc Trabant, visitors to Kraków are taken back in time to discover the city’s Communist history. more »
There are many historic places to stay in Poland, including majestic palaces and rustic farmhouses. This month, Discover Poland visits Kurozwęki Castle, in the southern region of Świętokrzyskie. Text by Barbara Kaniewska
Images of the Suez Canal flowing through the desert and the Panama Canal weaving its way through dense jungle in Central America are known worldwide, however few people are familiar with Poland’s most famous man-made waterway, which is perhaps one of the oldest in Europe. Text by Andrew Usowicz
UNESCO’s World Heritage List was established to protect the world’s mostsignificant sites of cultural and natural heritage from destruction as a result of social and industrial development. In 1972, the UNESCO General Conference adopted the ‘Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.’ After being ratified by twenty countries, the convention came into effect i
Delicious ginger cakes… Gothic architecture… the canals of Bydgoszcz… Kuiavia-Pomerania has many attractive characteristics. Located between Gdańsk and Warsaw, the region is surprisingly easy to reach from the United Kingdom and Ireland, and offers so much to its visitors. Text by Alicja Kosicka
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