Gdynia is this year celebrating a century since it was granted city rights.
Culture
Eleventh-century sword found in Polish river
Experts have dated the item to around the time when the Piasts, Poland’s first ruling dynasty, were present in the same region.
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Polish-born director wins Oscar for best animated short film
Maciek Szczerbowski and Chris Lavis won the Academy Award for “The Girl Who Cried Pearls”.
Polish city of Lublin received record half million foreign visitors in 2025
Brits, Israelis and Americans were the most common visitors from abroad.
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The family foundations charting a path for Polish philanthropy [Partner profile]
Poland’s economy has boomed, but philanthropy is still catching up.
Polish president vetoes law recognising Silesian as regional language in Poland
Karol Nawrocki argued that Silesian is a dialect, not a language, and said he opposed “creating artificial divisions in our national community”.
Polish city steps in to ensure survival of iconic 1950s café
Kraków has obtained the rights to the Rio coffee bar’s name and logo and is now auctioning off the lease.
Andy Warhol works part of Polish museum’s new exhibition on art of Rusyn ethnic group
The Rusyns are from a region that today lies around the borders between Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary and Romania.
The “Heweliusz Effect”: Netflix’s biggest-ever Polish production added 78m zloty to economy, finds report
The series has quickly become one of Netflix’s most-watched non-English titles.
Poland bets on tourism to add extra dimension to booming economy
Olivier Sorgho
The government wants tourism to contribute 9% of GDP within a decade, up from 4% now.
Germany agrees to return medieval documents looted by the Nazis to Poland
The culture minister called the decision “the most important and valuable return of stolen cultural heritage in modern Polish history”.
Poland’s Solidarity trade union wins legal battle for control of iconic logo
The logo has become famous around the world as a symbol of the struggle against oppression.
Mark Ruffalo to star in thriller about Polish Pope John Paul II’s road to sainthood
He will play the role of a priest assigned to be “devil’s advocate” in assessing the former pontiff’s life.
Polish museum invites Robert De Niro to view portrait of lookalike 17th-century “ancestor”
The 1629 painting, hanging at the National Museum in Wrocław, depicts local nobleman Johann Vogt.
