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Christmas sweets are gingerbread cookies which should be prepared about 2-3 weeks before Christmas. On Christmas Eve dinner table we find poppy seed rolls and all kinds of cakes with poppy seed as according to tradition, eating poppy seed cakes br...
Christmas fairs in Poland became wide-spread. We encounter such small Christmas shop gatherings in majority of bigger Polish towns and cities. Usually they start at the beginning of December before St. Nicholas day on the 6th of December, when chi...
Things you may not have known about Polish Christmas 1. The most important day for us is the 24th of December – Christmas Eve. 2. We spend three days of Christmas with our families mainly at Christmas feasts (24th-26th of December). 3. Polish chil...
Meal on Christmas Eve the 24th of December is Christmas dinner that should start traditionally when the first star appears on the sky. All family gathers together then and first reads the gospel about the birth of Christ and then family members sh...
Baubles are made in baubles factories. Polish Christmas trees are full of these colourful works of art. At the top of Polish Christmas trees you wont find any angel or leprechaun but only stars or glass tops in shape of needle with richly decorate...
The Musical Festival of Blooming Azaleas is an annual event held at the Castle in Moszna, at the turn of May and June. The first event was organized in 1984. The festival is full of artistic attractions. During the event it takes place a film musi...
The Nysa Fortress Days is a real treat for fans of military and strong impressions to go back in time two centuries to the times of the Napoleonic wars. During three days, from Friday to Sunday, in the last week of July, events closely related to ...
Zuzia's apiary was established in 2006 as a result of many years of beekeeping passion. It is located in the picturesque Landscape Park of the Jezierzyca Valley and in the Land of the Oder Ridge. The Educational Beekeeping Trail is interactive. Vi...
Lwówek Agate Summer is an annual international festival prospectors of minerals who come to Lwówek Śląski from all over the world. The program of the event includes over 200 stands, including over 80 presenting only minerals and fossils, several s...
Glass World of Baubles was established in 2009. It was founded by employees of the cooperative in Milicz, which no longer exists, where for several dozen years they mainly dealt with the production of Christmas tree decorations. The activities of ...
Mosińska Kolej Drezynowa has been operating since 2013, on the initiative of the current owner of the rolling stock, Maria Stachowiak-Krzyżaniak. The vehicles take a shuttle service from the Mosina Pożegowo stop in the direction of Puszczykiek, an...
Castle Party, which is visited by funs from all over Europe. It is one of the biggest festivals of this kind in the continent. The main musical genres include: gothick rock, gothic metal, electro and industrial. The concerts take place at two stag...
Corpus Christi Holiday is always held on Thursday after octave of Pentecost. It is a holiday of the Holiest Sacrament and also the opportunity to publicly testify faith. On this day every parish organizes a Corpus Christi procession in the morning...
„Long Polish May Weekend” in Poland is the 1st and the 3rd of May (almost all shops are closed). The 1st of May is a Labor Day, the 3rd of May is the 3rd May Constitution celebration (Polish constitution, signed on the 3rd of May 1791, was the sec...
Śmingus Dyngus comes from 15th century and at the beginning it was a folk celebration. Śmingus Dyngus tradition says that boys and men should pour water on girls and women on that day. The tradition says that the wetter the woman gets the more luc...
On Easter Saturday people prepare baskets with food which they take to churches to be blessed. They are later on eaten during festive family breakfasts. The baskets always have bread, butter in shape of Easter lamb, sausage, something sweet and of...
Andrzejki (St. Andrews Eve). Traditionally it is a nigh of fortune-telling from 29 till 30.11 so, the St. Andrews Day Eve. It is an ideal opportunity to organize parties before the period of Advent. This is why in many schools, discos, clubs and h...
Independence Day is on the 11th of November. Every year this day is a bank holiday. The holiday commemorates regaining independence after 123 years of annexation of Polish lands (1795-1918). On this day military parades are organized. Often there ...
All Saints’ Day is held on the 1st of November. Preparations to this holiday usually start about 2 weeks in advance when people visit cemeteries to prepare graves for this holiday. During that time it is easy to encounter traffic jams near cemeter...
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...
The Śląskie Voivodeship is located in southern Poland and borders on the south with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and on the Polish side with four voivodeships: Opolskie, Łódzkie, Świętokrzyskie and Małopolskie. The capital of the voivodeship i...
Culinary workshops titled Secrets of the Silesian Cuisine take place at the Museum of the Opole Countryside in Opole. During the classes, participants will learn the history of regional dishes, then, under the supervision of the teacher, they can ...