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The Market Square (Rynek Glowny) Krakow
39 Reviews Krakow is fabulous in any season. I have visited in holiday season, summer, and spring. The Cloth Market is the centerpiece of the historic square...untouched by wars. It's the purest part of Poland...
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Memories Warsaw
39 Reviews It had never crossed my mind to visit Poland, even after meeting Ewa, and teaching children who had Polish fathers in Scotland and Sudan. I'd never felt the inclination to visit Eastern Europe at all,...
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St. Mary's Church (Kosciol Mariacki) Krakow
30 Reviews Upon entering the BASILICA OF THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY from the Market Square, you come across the Vestibule (1750-53) in the shape of the Tomb of Jesus. Entering from Mariacki Square (enter here to...
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Streets Warsaw
28 Reviews Royal Route is possible the most popular walking part of Warsaw. It starts from Royal Castle, goes to Krakowskie Przedmescie street, later connects Nowi Swiat street and further to Lazenki and...
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Wawel Castle Krakow
41 Reviews The originally Gothic WAWEL CASTLE or ZAMEK WAWELSKI, was built by Casimir II the Great and consisted of a number of structures situated around the central courtyard. The Gothic structures were...
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Old Town Warsaw
39 Reviews Walking along the streets of the Old Town, you will see another kind of ornament - beautiful decorative shop signs above the doors of the elegant shops or restaurants. Their intricate designs, often...
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The Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) Krakow
13 Reviews this was the first shopping center in Krakow (14th century) Looks like a bazar with stall in both sides selling handcrafts or religious stuff ..its a large corridor with just this.On the upper floor...
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Royal Castle Warsaw
6 Reviews The Royal Castle is probably the best known landmark of Warsaw. From the outside it is a simple, huge five-wing early Baroque structure with a tall clock-tower. It's painted in unique colour but......
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St. Florian's Gate and the Barbican Krakow
15 Reviews The Krakow Barbican, exquisite structure. Matt decided to have a photo shoot for the Krakow 2010 Euromeet here, a beautiful place to do it, as you can see in the photos.. Matt, Ursula and our Polish...
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Warsaw Uprising Warsaw
8 Reviews WOW! Warsaw Uprising 1944 Museum is the best set up museum I have ever seen in Poland. It was open in 2004. I've already visited it twice and it's not enough for me :-). Fascinating and very...
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Lazienki Park and Chopin's Monument Warsaw
14 Reviews The Lazienki Park abounds in statues. They can be found everywhere: on the terrace of the Palace on the Water, in the Theatre on the Island, and in many other parts of the park too. They are often...
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Palace of Culture and Science Warsaw
13 Reviews Unfortunately, there are some politicians who want to destroy the Palace - symbol of the city!!! So, if you have free time, go to Warsaw - it is maybe the last chance to see this marvellous building!...
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Sightseeing - All tips in one Warsaw
9 Reviews We stayed three days in capital of Poland. I should say it was enough to see essential, but also better to have more time visiting Warsaw. I think the three day planning was quite full and useful, so...
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Barbican Warsaw
5 Reviews 2001: Some fun guys at the wall around Old Town.. available with axe... for the crazy tourists with busy cameras. The area around the Barbicon usually has some entertainers offering a variety of...
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Monuments Warsaw
6 Reviews There are many monuments and statues throughout the city, but I rather like the Tomb of the Unknown soldier. The tomb rests under several pillars which are the remnants of an old king's palace which...
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Castle Square Warsaw
6 Reviews The most part of the downdown was ruined during WWII. So, all that you can see on a photo is a reconstruction. From gale.blog.pl 's VT page I've just learned that number of old churches in Selesia...
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Wilanow Warsaw
5 Reviews King Jan III Sobieski was a hero- he saved Europe from Islam- but a controversial one- he told his wife not to take baths until he`s back from the war so he could have her "all natural"! A walk...
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Language Warsaw
3 Reviews Although most younger Poles speak English, there are many Poles, especially among the older generation who don't or don't want to. Even the majority of the police do not speak it. There is no doubt...
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Gdañsk is my home town, and unfortunately it is not included within the data base. It is located in the North of Poland, by the Bay of Gdañsk (part of the Baltic Sea). Gdañsk, together with two neighbouring cities of Sopot and Gdynia forms a unit called Tricity.
I love this photograph! it was taken in the very late 1930's or early 1940's. It is of my dad's family at that time. When we were visiting my dad one afternoon in the Summer of 2004 he showed this to me, as he reckoned that I looked like his mother when she was much younger than on this photo. I felt quite honoured and asked him if I could borrow the photo to put on my computer? of course he said yes. I just loved it because it is where my roots are from I suppose?(I have to admit; I don't know how to spell the Polish names, so am spelling them as they sound ok)From left to right: My uncle Michael, two Russian friend's of the family, my aunty Stasha, my Polish grandmother and grandfather, then at the front is aunty Zosha and uncle Bogdan. My dad was away in the war when this photograph was taken, and my uncle Anjé didn't make an appearance until late in the 1940's.
The Polish Winters can be very harsh with very deep snow and have well below freezing teperatures.My dad told me this story of my great grandfather when I was quite young. The great grandfather, my own father's grandfather, went out one day in the middle of Winter to chop wood for the fire, this would have been in the late 19th or very early 20th century, but he never returned home again.They found him in the Spring of the next year, he was sat on a large rock and had frozen to death in the very deep and freezing snow. He had a smile frozen upon his face. They reckon that you hallucinate when you are dying of Hypothermia don't they, I wonder what he was seeing as the poor old soul died?
Although ATM machines are to be found all over, the transaction is always in local currency. BE PREPARED. For example, do not go up to an ATM and think you'd like to withdraw $500 worth of local currency. You first must know the amount in local currency that $500 will buy. I always carry a currency cheat sheet when travelling. In addition to ATM transactions, it's also easier to bargain and make purchases.For a cheat sheet go to to http://www.oanda.com/cgi/convert/cheatsheet
If you wish to listen to some Polish radio stations look at: www.abradio.com. You will find many stations here, not only from Poland, but also from Czech Republic, Slovakia and Estonia. Listening is free.:) Enjoy! What I do recommend?Radio Plus Opole -> when you wish to listen to easy, slow songs;Radiostacja -> radio for young people, broadcast latest hits;Radio Planeta Katowice -> also for young people, dance music and techno/trance in the evening
Neighbouring countries (border length):Russia (Kaliningrad District) (210 km) Lithuania (103 km) Byelorussia (416 km) Ukraine (529 km) Slovakia (539 km) Czech Republic (790 km) Germany (467 km) Length of sea border (528 km)Total length of national border 3582 km
Any visitor coming to Poland will notice a huge number of churches, or I should rather say - places of worship. They are mostly Roman catholic, but protestant, orthodox or jewish ones are not very rare, either. Eastern Poland is rich in both synagogues and orthodox churches, whereas in southern Poland, especially in Little Poland, you can find some unique old wooden catholic churches which have been inscribed on UNESCO Heritage List. Lower Silesia can also boast of the churches included in the UNESCO List. These two Lutheran temples in Swidnica and Jawor, which are the largest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe, belong to the most unique places of worship I have ever seen. All over Poland there are thousands of churches - proud cathedrals or modest parish churches - they all have exciting stories to tell. I love visiting temples. Firstly, they have rich collections of works of...
More than 10 million Poles in the age of 15 - 75 use Internet what is almost 30% of the population of Poland. About 50% of them use Internet every day or almost every day. Internet appeared in Poland in 1991 but almost until 1994 was only for academic needs. Internet in Poland is still expensive compering with annual incomes of citizens. It costs from about 10$ in cities and starts usually from 25$ in towns and villages where annual incomes are much smaller. There are Internet cafes in Poland. It seems to be enough of them and they are popular because not everyone may afford Internet at home. Prices are usually from 2 - 6 PLN. You can find higher prices in the city centers of big cities.
There are more than 100 thousand places where credit cards are accepted in Poland and the number is still growing. There are also more than 8 thousand cash points (ATMs) in Poland. Even in small towns, sometimes villages, you will find minimum one cash point.Credit cards are widely accepted in cities. You should have no problems wit it in such cities like Warsaw or Krakow. When visiting small towns it is better to take cash.Web-site of one of the leading debit and credit card merchant transaction acquirer and processor company in Poland -> http://www.polcard.pl/english/podstrona.php?m=e_com&s=e_com_1
Polish ia an official language of Poland and one of the official languages in the European Union.. It belongs to Indo-European, Baltic-Slavic group of languages. It is estimated that about 46 million people speak Polish, mostly in Poland but also in USA, Lithuania, Belarus, France, Germany and Ukraine. Close to 97% of Polish citizens declare Polish as their mother tongue. Polish is said to be one of the most difficult languages in the world.Some helpful translations:good morning, afternoon - dzien dobry good evening - dobry wieczorgood-bye - do widzeniagood night - dobranocthank you - dziekujeplease - proszeSome more soon.:)
Sheraton Krakow Hotel Krakow
7 Reviews and 517 Opinions I had a very pleasant stay at this hotel. I was part of a tour group, but would recommend it to the...
Intercontinental Warszawa Warsaw
4 Reviews and 653 Opinions Intercontinental Warswawa is one of the 5***** hotel in warsaw but it is different from the others...
Mercure Hevelius Gdansk
7 Reviews and 221 Opinions Great view from my 9th floor room. [ half way up ]. The room is just what you expect for 450 zloty...
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Q: Hello everyone, My name is Gloria from Rome and I'm coming to Poland soon for a pilgrimage following the history of your...
A: Hi Gloria! From Krakow, I'd recommend that you pay a visit to Wadowice, the home town of Pope John Paul 11 - visit the cathedral where he served - then the house where he...
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