When visiting Kraków, you’ve surely seen the Kościuszko Mound, clearly visible from Wawel Hill. You may have heard that there are four such mounds commemorating great heroes. But not everyone…

Pewnie odwiedzając Kraków widzieliście świetnie widoczny z Wawelu Kopiec Kościuszki. Może słyszeliście, że takich kopców upamiętniających wielkich bohaterów mamy cztery. Ale nie każdy wie, że tak naprawdę tych kopców mieliśmy,…

Bigos, Met, Żurek, Pierogi, Wodka und viele andere Speisen und Getränke, die typisch für die polnische Küche sind, sollte jeder kennen, der auch nur ein paar Tage in unserem Land…

Bigos, mead, żurek, pierogi, vodka and many other dishes and drinks typical of Polish cuisine should be familiar to anyone who has spent even a few days in our country.Poland…

Today marks the anniversary of the end of World War II, so I want to write a bit about how it happened that – while Warsaw was leveled by the…

One of the most famous—if not the most famous—paintings in Poland is Lady with an Ermine, also known as Lady with a Weasel, by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting was…

Every Pole has heard of the Czartoryski family – and not only Poles. They even have a street named after them in Vienna, and some of them served as foreign…

A week ago I wrote about Kraków sour rye soup (żurek), Prądnicki bread, caraway and other traditional elements of Kraków’s cuisine. Today we continue the topic. I even forgot to…

Recently I wrote about the iconic Kraków obwarzanki, which we encounter every day in various parts of the city — and when visiting Kraków, it’s impossible not to notice them….

When visiting royal Kraków, we see from the north side of the Old Town the Barbican, also called the Rondel, the Florian Gate, and three defensive towers: the Pasamonicy Tower,…