Going on holidays is as much about getting away from the banal as it is about chasing the novel. And while there are familiar sights in Poland, it’s an often overlooked destination for something ...

Built largely underground in Gdansk, this museum reframes the Second World War through civilian experience, emphasizing endurance and consequence over spectacle. The first thing visitors notice at the ...

The centuries-old complete skeleton of a medieval knight was found under the former site of a famous ice cream shop in Poland, researchers said. The discovery was made on a small plot in Gdańsk, a ...

Transporting goods by boat has been the backbone of the world’s economy for centuries. Massive cargo ships are unloaded by skilled dockworkers using skyscraper-sized cranes. But how did ships disgorge ...

It witnessed the first shots of the second World War and played a pivotal role in the fall of communism, but this Polish city… It witnessed the first shots of the second World War and played a pivotal ...

Napoleon said Gdansk was "key to everything" and history has borne that out: the Solidarity trade union, whose opposition led to the end of Communist rule, started in the pretty coastal city. Napoleon ...

Refuge cities In a country where xenophobia is increasingly rife, Poland’s longest-serving mayor is intent on building a safe haven for his city’s ‘invisible’ immigrants. After all, he says, ...