Pablo Picasso once said the post-war reconstruction of Wroclaw was a powerful inspiration for him and you can see why. Like Poznan the city was founded on an island, Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island) ...

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ON one side of Tumski Bridge in Wroclaw, in southwest Poland, the Gothic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist hovers agelessly over Ostrow Tumski, the city’s oldest quarter. Nearby, a boot-sized brass ...

“If this is Upper Silesia, what must Lower Silesia be like?” Interned in the drab town of Tost (now Toszek) during the Second World War, PG Wodehouse mocked the likely dullness of its neighbouring ...

For centuries, Poland was a military crossroads between east and west Europe, a battleground coveted by her neighbours. It's a legacy that has left the country steeped in legend and lore, ghosts and ...

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Wroclaw is a city that would be best described in the words of Pope John Paul II. The late leader of the Catholic Church termed Poland’s fourth biggest city as “A city of meetings” and how well His ...

Pablo Picasso said the post-war reconstruction of Wroclaw was a powerful inspiration for him and you do not have to look far among the seven islands it is based on to see why. Pablo Picasso once said ...