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Emirates Started its Launch Activities in Poland

Aleksandr Shatskih

Emirates Airlines will provide daily flights between Dubai and Warsaw from February 6th. Prior to the official launch, the carrier organized an event offering the Polish travel trade a preview of the company and its services. The event took place at The Palace of Culture and Science and Congress Hall and over 500 guests from […]

13 years ago

Qatar Airways Increases Flights to Warsaw

Aleksandr Shatskih

Qatar Airways just announced increasing capacity on their daily Doha to Warsaw route, the change goes into effect February 1.

13 years ago

Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair to Become Major Tourist Center

Aleksandr Shatskih

Poland’s government has announced plans to convert one of its most famous World War II sites into a major new tourist attraction

13 years ago

Magdalena Abakanowicz Works On Display in Warsaw

Aleksandr Shatskih

Earlier this month works of Poland’s celebrated sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz went on exhibit in Warsaw. Made up of mostly never before seen pieces, the exhibit at Warsaw’s House of Plastic Arts Gallery represents the latest revelation of the talents of the now prized artist.

13 years ago

Poland To Build Europe’s Largest Radio Telescope

Aleksandr Shatskih

Poland has announced plans to build what will be the largest radio telescope in Europe, and the third largest of its kind in the world at some 400-foot across

13 years ago

Białowieża Forest, Where Bison Have Come Back from the Brink

Aleksandr Shatskih

There are few travelers to Poland that won’t have come across the local variety of vodka, Zubrowka, at least once on their travels. Zubrowka is memorable not just because of its potency

13 years ago

Poland Halloween Deemed Diabolical by Clergy

Phil Butler

For Halloween fans in Poland tonight, your escapades will surely be dampened when you learn Catholic bishops there have condemned the spooky holiday. Clergymen claim Halloween is harmful because the celebration promotes what they term “diabolical behavior”.

13 years ago

Poland’s Jewish History Museum Opens Next Year

Aleksandr Shatskih

Early next year, Poland will see the long awaited opening of a museum showcasing the history, culture and suffering of its minority Jewish community, which has today all but vanished from the country.

13 years ago

The Keret House – Poland’s Narrowest Home

Aleksandr Shatskih

Poland’s narrowest home has just opened in its capital Warsaw, billing itself as an ‘artistic installation’ that will serve as a second home for the city’s sometime resident, Israeli writer and artist Edgar Keret.

13 years ago

Poland Celebrates 32nd Anniversary of August Agreements

Aleksandr Shatskih

Today all Poland celebrates the 32nd Anniversary of August Agreements, the 1980 declaration of Poland’s emergence as the first independent trade union in the former communist bloc. President Bronislaw Komorowski will reportedly be on hand to present awards to some 40 activists of the Solidarity Trade Union.

14 years ago

Eastern Europe’s Most Unusual Sights

Guest Author

Countries in Eastern Europe are awash with odd sights; some can be explained by the region’s turbulent history, some can be explained by the human imagination and some just can’t be satisfactorily explained at all.

14 years ago

Poland Capitalizes on Euro 2012 Image Boost, Promotes Medical Tourism

Aleksandr Shatskih

Poland is planning on using the newly acquired recognition given by co-organizing the Euro 2012 sports even to boost a quite profitable tourism segment – health and medical services.

14 years ago

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Emergency teams and EMAK units respond to a major building collapse at Chania’s former War Museum, confirming no individuals were trapped in the rubble.

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