Like in most Central European countries, Christmas in Poland is a quaint and much-beloved affair. However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, ...

The concept of a Grand Tour was introduced in the 1770s by an Englishman, Richard Lassels, to describe a journey serving to supplement education, develop aesthetic taste, acquire practical skills, ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Napisany i wyreżyserowany przez Jessego Eisenberga "Prawdziwy ból" to opowieść o rodzinnej przeszłości, traumie i pamięci ...

Ktoś mógłby powiedzieć, że "Pan Żarówka" to opowieść autobiograficzna, a kto inny, że duszna, surrealistyczna baśń – i każdy ...

Rozmowa z Michałem "Nihilem" Kuźniakiem i Dominikiem Gacem, twórcami słuchowiska "Dziady", opartego na nagraniach ...