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Witamy w Polsce
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★ Has its own city story
A royal city on the Vistula, a capital rebuilt from ruins, Copernicus, Chopin and Marie Curie.
Poland is a large country between the Baltic Sea and the Tatra mountains, with a thousand years of history full of kings, uprisings and rebirths. It wrote Europe's first modern constitution, gave the world Copernicus, Chopin and Marie Curie, and began the peaceful end of communism in a Gdańsk shipyard. Visit the Wawel castle in Kraków, see Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, and learn the story of Polish Jews at POLIN in Warsaw. Plan your museum days on museumtickets.com, then eat pierogi and a warm pączek.
Kings, partitions, war and freedom.
Duke Mieszko I accepts Christianity; Poland enters European history.
See it at: Museum of the History of PolandNicolaus Copernicus, born in Toruń, publishes that the Earth goes around the Sun.
See it at: Nicolaus Copernicus HouseRussia, Prussia and Austria divide Poland; it disappears from the map for 123 years.
See it at: Museum of the History of PolandPoland is reborn as a free state on 11 November 1918.
See it at: Józef Piłsudski MuseumWarsaw rises against the German occupiers and fights for 63 days; the city is then destroyed.
See it at: Warsaw Rising MuseumStrikes in Gdańsk create Solidarity, the first free trade union in the Soviet bloc.
See it at: European Solidarity CentreA scientist, a rescuer of children and a crane operator who started a strike.
Born in Warsaw in 1867; the first person to win two Nobel prizes, for physics and chemistry.
See it at: Maria Skłodowska-Curie MuseumA social worker who smuggled about 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and hid their names in jars.
See it at: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish JewsA crane operator whose dismissal in 1980 sparked the strike that created Solidarity.
See it at: European Solidarity CentreFrom a giant carved altar to the colours of Young Poland.
Sculptor of the great carved altarpiece of St Mary's Basilica in Kraków, finished in 1489.
Painter of huge scenes of Polish history, such as the Battle of Grunwald.
Painter, playwright and designer of glowing stained-glass windows in Kraków.
Portrait painter of soft, misty colours who worked in Paris.
The composer; his heart rests in a church in Warsaw and a museum is dedicated to him.
Dumplings, sour soup and smoked mountain cheese.
Dumplings filled with potato and cheese, cabbage and mushroom, meat or summer fruit.
A sour soup of fermented rye with sausage and egg, sometimes served in a bread bowl.
Hunter's stew of sauerkraut, cabbage and meats, better each day it is reheated.
Smoked sheep's cheese from the Tatra mountains, pressed in carved wooden moulds.
Round doughnuts with rose jam, eaten in huge numbers on Fat Thursday.
Doughnuts, water fights, candles on graves and an empty plate.
Everyone eats pączki; bakeries have queues from early morning.
A day of water fights in the streets, after baskets of food are blessed on Holy Saturday.
Girls float wreaths of flowers on the rivers on the shortest night.
Families light candles on graves; cemeteries glow at night.
Dinner begins at the first star, with twelve dishes and an empty place for an unexpected guest.
Fast trains link Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, Wrocław and Poznań.
Many museums have one free day a week; it can be busy.
At Auschwitz-Birkenau, book a guided visit and plan a full, quiet day.
Many museums close on Mondays.
On museumtickets.com: 1,262 museums with photos, the way there and the museums nearby. Save your favourites in the free Culture Passport and, where the museum offers it, pay your admission in advance.
From the airport to the city centre by public transport, then the trains and local lines to the museums.
Lines and timetables change. Check the operator’s website before you travel.
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