Discover the feudal origins of these idiosyncratic regions, and get cultural ... let Culture.pl take you on a tour of Poland’s voivodeships. The name ‘wojewoda’ is said to come from leading warriors, ...

Poland is a development success story. However, the country’s regions face wide-ranging challenges. Therefore, Poland has been selected to participate in the “Catching-Up Regions” project, initiated ...

Rose's 1900 edition of his octopus map, Photo: public domain A later Japanese variant of the map shows stylised skulls for Poland and Finland – regions for whom the touch of the octopus was deadly. In ...

the area gained international recognition and was listed among the most interesting places in Poland by the American magazine "Atlas Obscura." The Land of Open Shutters is a unique region that ...

By late 1940, the Nazis (who occupied Poland at the time) turned the region into a ghetto, and its residents either died from disease or starvation, or were sent to the Treblinka death camp.

The other part is a neighborhood alive with boutique restaurants, art galleries and some of the best nightlife Poland has to offer ... the Nowa Huta region – which sits 9 miles east of the ...