10. Ethnic groups (2011)
93.7% Polish
2,1% Silesian
0.06% Kashubian
0.03% German
0.01 % Ukrainian
0.01 % Belarusian
4,09 % Other (Roms, Russian,
American, Lemkos, Lithuanian,
English + undefined )
11. What have I brought from Poland?
Heavy luggage filled with hard life experience…
12. Polish administrative area is 312 679
km ², which gives it the 70th place in
the world and ninth in Europe.
A population of over
38.5 million people ,
is the 34th most populous place
in the world, and the sixth in
the European Union.
13. President And Prime Minister
Government - Parliamentary republic (2013)
The President of Poland is
Bronisław Komorowski
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16. Famous People From Poland
John Paul II (In Polish: Jan Paweł II) - He was
the Pope from Poland and the only polish Pope so far.
Poland remains one
of the most
devoutly religious
countries in Europe.
In 2007, 88.4% of the
population belonged
to the Catholic
Church. Though rates
of religious
observance are lower,
at 52% or 51% of the
Polish Catholics.
17. Lech Walesa (In Polish: Lech Wałęsa)
He was the first president after ‘89 and the major
activist of the Solidarity movement.
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18. Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) was a Polish
composer and virtuoso pianist and every polish person
knows him.
He is widely considered one of the greatest Romantic
composers.
19. Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
was a Renaissance mathematician
and astronomer who formulated
a comprehensive heliocentric
model which placed the Sun at the
center of the solar system, and
which described the mechanics of
the solar system in mathematical
language.
21. HISTORY
Poland began to form in 966
adopting Catholicism, later on
sufferred many years of Partitions (1795–1918),
also wars, then soviet opression (comunist times)
till 1990 when Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity
candidate, eventually won the presidency.
The Solidarity movement heralded the collapse of
communist regimes and parties across Europe.
22. What do you
think about He is exactly like my
today’s wife. Gets on my
referee? nerves, but there is
nothing you can do
about it.
23. Gdansk
Sopot
Gdynia
=
Trójmiasto
Region of lakes
MAZURY
South of Poland
MOUNTAINS
TATRY, KARPATY,
SUDETY, BIESZCZADY
32. View of Gdaosk's Old Town from the Motława river.
The city is close to the former late medieval/modern boundary between West Slavic and
Germanic lands and it has a complex political history with periods of Polish rule, periods of
German rule, and extensive self-rule, with two spells as a free city. It has been part of modern
Poland since 1945.
33. Gdaosk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship
34. Gdaosk Poland's principal seaport
The medieval port crane, called Żuraw over
Motława river.
38. Gdaosk - The city was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement
which grew up under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa
39. Solidarity played a major role in bringing an end to
Communist rule across Central Europe.
40. Highlights of tourist attractions in Poland
Castle in Malbork
The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork is the largest
castle in the world by surface area, and the largest brick
building in Europe.
41. Peninsula Helski
is a 35-km-long sand bar peninsula in northern Poland separating the Bay of Puck from
the open Baltic Sea.
The width of the peninsula varies from approximately 300 m through 100 m in the
most narrow part to over 3 km at the tip. Since the peninsula was formed entirely of
sand, it is frequently turned into an island by winter storms.
42. The longest river and the highest
mountain
The longest river in Poland is:
Wisla (1047 kilometers). Wisla flows through Warsaw and Kraków and
many other cities, from the south to the north of Poland.
The highest mountain in Poland is :
Rysy - 2499 meters above the sea level.
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45. Warsaw- Capital City
The Palace of Culture and Science.
A gift from the Soviet Union to the people of Poland in 1952.
46. Warsaw
• The Royal Łazienki Museum
in Warsaw consists of a
palace and garden complex
comprising magnificent
gardens, canals and ponds
within its 80 hectares.
• It was built during the
second half of the
eighteenth century.
47. Warsaw
The Chopin Statue is a large bronze statue of Frédéric Chopin in Warsaw's Royal
Łazienki Park. At the statue's base, since 1959, on summer Sunday afternoons are
performed free piano recitals of Chopin's compositions.
48. Warsaw
Vilanov Palace
Palace Entrance • Flag Throwing Practice
The art of flag throwing dates back to medieval guilds. In classical flag throwing,
the flag is turned left and right around the body in a standing posture. In
acrobatical flag throwing, the thrower uses both hands to move the flag in a
sitting, laying, or kneeling posture.
56. WIELICZKA - NEAR KRAKÓW
The salt mines in Wieliczka were part of the marriage settlement of the Hungarian
princess Kinga. Amazing figures and monuments were sculptured out of its salt walls
which earned the Mine a place on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in
1978.
Visit the 600 year old Salt Mine. You descend 380 wooden steps to the first level 64m
underground from there you continue another two levels in tunnels and more steps
until you are 135m underground. The distance covered is 5 km and takes 2 hours.
At the end of the tour you ascend in a small miners lift carrying 6 to 8 people.
The tour visits many ancient chambers and chapels in which almost everything is made
or carved from salt.
Kinga’s Chapel is a huge 22,000 cubic metre space and is a popular wedding place we
were advised.
57. Wieliczka Mine salt in Wieliczka
The mine, built in the 13th century, produced table salt
continuously until 2007, as one of the world's oldest salt mines
still in operation.
In 1978 it was placed on the original UNESCO list of the World
Heritage Sites
Leonardo's "The Last Supper" carved in a wall
of rock salt
The Wieliczka salt mine
reaches a depth of 327 metres
and is over 300 kilometres
long.
60. Oświęcim - THE TRAGIC HISTORY
AUSCHWITZ – NEAR CRACOW
BIRKENAU EXTERMINATION CAMP
An estimated 6,000,000 Polish civilians died during
the war, of which 2,900,000 were Jewish.
61. Oświęcim AUSCHWITZ AND BIRKENAU
The visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau allows you to gain insights into the
atrocities created under Hitler's regime and the millions who fell victim to
the Holocaust. This was a very personal thought-provoking experience .
The largest of all
the Nazi
concentration and
extermination
camps, Auschwitz,
was transformed into
a museum by the
Polish government a
few years after it was
liberated by Russian
Troops in 1945.
63. Oswiecim
AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP FACTS
"Gypsies and people who were
crippled especially were sent to be
killed, but Slavonic peoples and
Hungarians who disagreed with the
fascist government were also sent to
the chimneys.
Many millions of Polish people
died in the camps. Anyone who
was not German could be used as
hands to work until they could
work no longer, and then to be
burned.
68. The region is located mostly in the basin of the middle Oder River,
with its historic capital in Wrocław. The landscape is mostly that of flat
lowlands but the mountain ridge of the Western and Central Sudetes
make for the southern border of Lower Silesia.
69. Dolny Śląsk – Niederschlesien – Dolni Slezsko
Throughout its history Lower Silesia has been under the control of the medieval Kingdom of Poland,
shortly by the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy (1526)
and the Kingdom of Prussia (1742) to become a part of the German Empire in 1871.
After 1945 the vast majority of the region fell to Poland.
Current inhabitants have been largely resettled from the lands Poland lost after WW2,
most importantly from today’s western Ukraine. For instance, people from Lviv
were relocated to Wrocław, those from Boryslav to Wałbrzych. Also inhabitants of villages
were moved in a similar way.
88. The Polish Loire Valley
Lower Silesia is also called the Polish Loire Valley as it is home to around 760
palaces.
Sadly, 30% of them are currently ruined.
However, around 10% of the palaces have been renovated so far.
