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Fatty Thursday is Polish counterpart of British Pancake Day. Actually, to be more precise in Poland it is rather Doughnut Day. The holiday is always on the last Thursday before Lent Post. As Fatty Thursday date depends on Easter day, its date is c...
Things you may not have known about Polish Easter: 1. Preparations for Easter start a week before Ash Wednesday. On Thursday we have a Doughnut Day or Fat Thursday when we eat lots of doughnuts to prepare ourselves for lent period. 2. On Palm Su...
Palm Sunday is Easter Palms preparation. Palm Sunday date depends on Easter date and it is Sunday just before Easter Sunday, which can be between the 15th of March and the 18th of April. It commemorates Christ triumphant entry to Jerusalem when pe...
About 70 kilometers from the sea, in the Drawskie Lake District by Lake Trzesiecko, you can slide on one of the longest water ski and wakeboard lift in Europe, 1100 m long and regulated speed 22 - 60 km / h. The water ski and wakeboard lift is l...
The staging of the Battle of Heilsberg (now Lidzbark Warmiński) is the largest Napoleonic historical reconstruction in Poland. In terms of the number of soldiers (Napoleonic and Russian-Prussian) and the losses suffered by both sides, it was the l...
Garncarska Wioska (Pottery village) is a social enterprise, a theme village operating in the village of Kamionka near Nidzica. It is run by the Nidzicka Foundation for the Development of NIDA. Old disappearing professions are recreated here, old ...
On August 14, 1980, the shipyard workers started a strike that changed the reality of the People's Republic of Poland and the whole of Central and Eastern Europe. Demands were given to reinstate the activists of the Free Trade Unions of the Coast,...
The Street Theater Festival in Toruń is a theater festival that has been taking place since the mid-1990s. It is organized every year, during the summer holidays, in the historic Old Town. It lasts for two weeks. They are organized by the Baj Pom...
Baltic Sail is an international agreement signed by the largest cities in the Baltic Sea region, initiated by Rostock in 1991. The aim and assumption of the initiators is to promote the maritime heritage of the European Baltic Sea region and to su...
The Shakespeare Festival is one of the largest international events in Gdańsk, devoted to the idea of Elizabethan theater. Its organizers, the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theater and the Theatrum Gedanense Foundation, at the time invite the best Shakespear...
Mozartiana, or the International Mozart Festival, presents the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and compositions inspired by his work in the natural surroundings of the Mozart era - the Abbots' Palace and the Oliwa Park. "Mozartiana" has been orga...
The International Organ Music Festival is the oldest festival of this type in Poland. It has been held in summer - in July and August - annually since 1957, in the Oliwa Cathedral. Its organizer is the Polish Baltic Philharmonic and the Pomeranian...
The tourist route in Gdańsk In the footsteps of Gunter Grass leads through the places where the most famous inhabitant of Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz grew up. Günter Grass was born in the Free City of Gdańsk and was closely associated with it until the end of...
The European Route of Brick Gothic connects the cities that belonged to the Hanseatic League and runs through three countries - Germany, Denmark and Poland. Gdańsk, one of the most important cities of the medieval, powerful Hanseatic League can st...
The horse stud at the Galiny Palace and Grange operates all year round and offers horse riding for children and adults of all levels. The equestrian center has 2 stables, 3 running tracks, 2 manege squares, and 2 indoor riding arenas (including on...
The Museum of Kashubian Ceramics Neclów is located next to the pottery workshop in Chmielno. For ten generations, the Necel family has been producing decorative clay pots. Chmielno pottery was started in 1907 by the family's doyen, Franciszek Nece...
The Elbląg Canal is one of the most unusual waterways in Europe. Built in the years 1844 - 1881 on the basis of a design by Georg Jacob Steinke, it connects the Drwęca basin with Elbląg and the Vistula Lagoon. It consists of man-made canal section...
Drwęca is one of the most beautiful canoeing routes in Poland. It is changeable and interesting, both in terms of nature, scenery and culture. It is the only long river in Poland fully protected by nature reserve, clean and full of rare fish. It f...
The Royal Route is a route leading through Gniezno, containing interesting places, monuments, models and information points. It was established in 2018 and you can navigate through it using a mobile application or a paper guide. The recommended st...
The PIRAT ship in Sopot is one of the most characteristic landmarks in Sopot. It offers 40-minute scenic cruises and long-distance charters throughout the Gdańsk Bay. The Pirat Ship is a great place to organize private and corporate events at a ri...
LUBIANA Porcelain Factory is the largest and most modern porcelain factory in Poland. It is located in Kashubia, about 9 km from Kościerzyna, in the town of Łubiana. It employs over 1,400 people, produces 3.5 million pieces of products per month, ...
The Elewator climbing wall is one of the highest climbing walls in Poland and the highest climbing wall in Gdańsk. You can climb 19 meters! On 415 m2 of climbing surface they offer 22 rope climbing stations, including 2 tracks that end with bells ...
The Royal Coronation - the Slavic Culture Festival in Gniezno is one of the most important events on the Piast Trail each year. It is an extraordinary historical spectacle based on the "learning through play" formula, held cyclically in July in th...