In the 17th century, Wojciech Bobowski lived as a captive in the Ottoman Empire. However, he was not idle in his captivity: he created the first ever anthology of traditional Ottoman music and ...

Discover the magic of Polish Christmas through the fascinating tales of its traditional objects. From the shimmering artistry ...

Ciprian Porumbescu, a Romanian composer with Polish roots, bridged cultures through music, creating works inspired by ...

Explore the fascinating world of historical etiquette guides penned by strong, unconventional women. From Maria Wielopolska’s ...

Nearly 100 events in more than 20 countries. The international cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the Council of ...

The devastation caused by World War II left hundreds of thousands of Polish forces and individuals displaced from their homes and families by the year 1945. Loved ones had been lost. Houses, flats – ...

A calvary is a complex of churches or chapels, usually built on a hill, which symbolises the stations of the Passion of Christ. Typically, they serve to commemorate this key event for Christianity, ...

In the 1950s, 303 researchers travelled through Poland and gathered over 46,000 recordings of folk music. It was one of the largest campaigns of its kind in Poland. It’s 1934. Two young ...

With a history of Polish migration dating back to the 1830s – and more than one million people of Polish descent in its metropolitan area today – Chicago is the traditional capital of the Polish ...

In this 19th-century tale of hypnosis, women’s rights and shocking experiments, Culture.pl describes Napoleon Cybulski’s road to discovering adrenaline, the ‘hormone of fight or flight’. Napoleon ...

For the first time in the over-120-year history of the Venice Biennale, a Roma artist will represent a national pavilion. In an interview with Culture.pl, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas talks about the ...

Zurek with dried porcini, image from 'Fresh from Poland: New Vegetarian Cooking from the Old Country' © Michał Korkosz, 2020, reprinted by permission of the ...