Kopytka (i.e. ‘little hooves’) are cousins of the Italian gnocchi. They are made with boiled mashed potatoes and a little bit of wheat flour. The dough is rolled and cut into diamond-shaped kluski, ...

The Polish national wardrobe is filled to the brim with embroidered dresses in all possible colours as well as Gorals*, hard-soled leather moccasins called ‘kierpce’ and ornaments from red beaded ...

The sweet, and at times dark, story of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s beautiful headquarters on one of Warsaw’s most ...

The colourful Polish tradition of making ‘pisanki’, or Easter eggs, is more or less a thousand years old. There are dozens of regional varieties, and the most outstanding specimens are exhibited in ...

October in Poland – the leaves are turning yellow and red; the days are getting shorter and while shopping for your next warm ...

Horror never fully settled into Polish cinema, however, it took off in video games. Here’s a review of some of the most ...

You’ve heard of international superstitions like ‘don’t walk under a ladder’, but how about some exclusive to Poland? The 13 ...

In 1843, a prince with a death sentence hanging over him moved into a derelict townhouse on Paris’s Île Saint-Louis, filled ...

Han Kang’s writing explores memory, life after catastrophe and places where past events have left a deep imprint on the ...

In July 2011, over 200 Poles gathered in the shadow of Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and danced to Super Junior and T-ara – in ...

In the opera ‘Mothers of Kherson’, music becomes the voice of mothers heroically fighting to get back their stolen children.

Polish culture is filled with plenty of costume ideas to choose from. Cinephiles, history buffs and those looking for ...