Music lovers and critics say that he is a romantic and a perfectionist. Sometimes they wonder whether he is a man or a robot. The only thing that is certain about him is that he belongs to the world’s most eminent pianists. He started playing the piano at the age of five, which comes as no...

Cieszyn is one of the oldest towns of Poland, located at the foot of the Beskidy Mountains. The legend has it that it was founded in 810 by the three prince’s sons: Bolko, Leszko and Cieszko, who in this way celebrated their meeting after a long separation. In the place where they met, there...

Chopin danced mazurka here…
In Kalisz, Poland’s oldest city, Frederic Chopin stopped several times during his journeys to have some rest. The city is located on the way which the composer took while travelling abroad. And here, as well as in Szczypiorno, was the point where the...

The Sanniki community (gmina Sanniki) is a part of the fantastic region of Mazovia. It is one of the communities of the Gostynin county (powiat gostyniński) with the surface of 94.6 square kilometers and about 6,700 inhabitants. The Sanniki community is composed of the following smaller local...

The Museum of the Mazovian Countryside (Muzeum Wsi Mazowieckiej) in Sierpc is composed of an open air ethnographic museum located in a picturesque area, a 19th-century town hall in the town center and its branch, the Museum of a Small Town (Muzeum Małego Miasta) in Bieżuń. The open air museum...

Rabbit à la Berlin
The Polish documentary entitled Królik po berlińsku (Rabbit à la Berlin) has a chance to win an Oscar this year. Rabbits used to live between the two lines of the Berlin Wall. The famous rabbits, which in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) were the...

A chronology of the life and creative output of Frederic Chopin.
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Frederic Chopin’s father, Mikołaj, is born on April 15th. Mikołaj’s father, François, was a vineyard owner and a clerk from the village of Marainville in Lorraine. His mother was...

Warsaw to Change Beyond Recognition
Over 1,800 investments and renovations of the total value of PLN 12 billion have been planned by the Office of the City of Warsaw (Urząd Miasta Warszawy) for the year 2010. Out of them, the most important one is the construction of the...

The National Philharmonic (Filharmonia Narodowa) is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin’s birthday with a cycle of numerous concerts performed by both Polish and foreign artists.
On the 4th of February, the concert entitled W hołdzie Chopinowi (A...

Wanda Wiłkomirska, an outstanding Polish violinist of international fame, is celebrating her 80th birthday this year. She was born in Warsaw, in 1929, to a very musical family, in which all of the members (parents and numerous siblings) were musicians. Little Wanda was just 5 years old when her...