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POLAND-GENERAL INFORAMATION The total area of Poland is 313 square kilometres. With a population of over 39 million people. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, and its capital and largest city is Warsaw.

CRACOW WARSAW GDAŃSK POZNAŃ

POLISH CUISINE ROSÓŁ - CHICKEN SOUP PIEROGI-DUMPLINGS KOTLET-CUTLET BIGOS- HUNTER’S STEW

POLISH TRADITIONAL CLOTHES National costumes of Poland vary by region. They are not worn in daily life but at folk festivals, folk weddings, religious holidays, harvest festivals and other special occasions. The costumes may reflect region and sometimes social or marital status.

FAMOUS PEOPLE John Paul II was the first Pole and Slav to become a Roman Catholic Pope. He held the papacy between 1978 and 2005. Fryderyk Chopin was a renowned classical composer and virtuoso pianist.

Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century Polish astronomer who formulated the heliocentric model of the solar system that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center — work first published in 1543. Robert Lewandowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for the German club Bayern Munich, and captain of Polish national team.

MAŁOPOLSKA VOIVODESHIP The capital is Cracow. The region is famous for tourism and recreation, including : -Zakopane - the most popular winter resort. - Kraków/Wieliczka - the salt mine - Oświęcim – the area with the former Nazi concentration Auschwitz camps.

AUSCHWITZ WIELICZKA ZAKOPANE

DELICACIES IN MAŁOPOLSKA OSCYPEK

LIBUSZA - OUR VILLAGE There are Museum, School, Library and Church.

MUSEUM The museum collects, protects and keeps memorabilia of Polish history of the oil industry and popularize the story, the beginning of which is equivalent to the start of the global oil industry, and today is present in creating the story.

CHURCH The Church in Libusza was one of the most beautiful wooden churches in Poland. After a fire in which nothing but the sacristy, charred walls and a beautiful folk cross survived.

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