Author name: Paulina Lipiec

Today I wanted to tell you a bit about the famous Sigismundus Bell! 🙂 The Sigismundus Bell is the most famous Polish bell, popularly and commonly called Sigismundus’ Bell (so not only the bell’s name is Sigismundus, but it also belongs to Sigismundus – get it? 😉 ). It hangs in the Sigismundus’ Tower in

Retroholidays is a new word, recently very popular in Polish media. It refers to the way of spending your time off work surrounded by nature. Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, majority of Polish people will back out of their plans of going abroad – partly because of the money, and partly because they’re scared

Today I wanted to tell you a few words about one incredibly talented Pole – Wojciech Kilar. Wojciech Kilar was born in Lviv (now Ukraine, then Poland) in 1932 and passed away in 2013 in Katowice, Silesian district of Poland. He was a Polish pianist, classical and film music composer. Wojciech was a son of

If you live in a big city and you miss nature, you dream of your own piece of garden, a place for a barbecue evening with friends or for a weekend sunbath, you can get yourself (buy or rent) an allotment garden! Allotment gardens, or just simply allotments are super popular in Poland! First allotments

Stanisław Wyspiański lived at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries in Kraków. He was one of the greatest Polish artists and a real „Renaissance man”! During his life he was a painter, a poet, a playwright, he designed clothes, furniture and stain glass windows, decorated church walls and ceilings with his

Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki was born in 1640 in Kulczyce (today a village in Ukraine). When he grew up, he got a job at the East Trade Company and thanks to this merchant’s job, learnt a few foreign languages, among them also – Turkish! And it was exactly a business trip in 1683, when the siege

I know that officially they say the first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, and the first step on the Moon was made by Neil Armstrong. But here in Poland we know better! Already in the 16th century we had our first countryman both in space and on the Moon. Read the story yourself! In