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Jan.30.2012 | |
Details of the 48th edition of the Jazz Nad Odra (Jazz on the Odra) festival have been announced, including the festival's new dates: 18-22 April 2012. The fe... | |
Jan.27.2012 | |
Following severe delays with the completion of the National Stadium in Warsaw, Wroclaw may take over duties as host for a football friendly scheduled to take pl... | |
Jan.23.2012 | |
Polish modern classical music icon Krzysztof Penderecki has collaborated with guitarist of acclaimed British group Radiohead Jonny Greenwood in a new album. T... | |
Jan.16.2012 | |
The city of Wroclaw has won its bid to host the World Games in 2017. With Cape Town having pulled out of the race due to financial reasons, Budapest was Wroclaw... | |
Jan.9.2012 | |
A record-breaking 40 million zloty (approximately 9 million euro) has been raised as part of Poland's annual Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOSP) fundr... | |
Jan.4.2012 | |
A student of Wroclaw's Academy of Art and Design recently hung up one of his own paintings at the city's National Museum, echoing a similar move by Bansky. ... | |
Jan.2.2012 | |
Wroclaw marked the end of 2011 and start of 2012 with its annual New Year’s Eve celebrations, right on the city’s Market Square. The party was broadcast on te... | |
Dec.5.2011 | |
The Palace of Arts in Kiev has hosted the draw for the group stage of the Euro 2012 football championships taking place in Poland and Ukraine next year. From ... | |
Dec.1.2011 | |
Wroclaw will host its own TEDx event, as part of the internationally recognized lecture series featuring a wide variety of creative minds, sharing some of their... | |
Nov.24.2011 | |
The annual Christmas Market opens this weekend in Wroclaw on Swidnicka Street in the Old Town. Here you can find vendors from the region and beyond selling ha... | |
Nov.17.2011 | |
The presidents of Poland, Ukraine, and Germany, have gathered in Wroclaw to mark the 200th anniversary of the prestigious Wroclaw University. Polish President... | |
Nov.5.2011 | |
One of the highlights of the annual culture calendar in Wroclaw kicks off this month - Jazztopad Festival, which translates roughly to Jazz-November and takes... | |
Nov.3.2011 | |
Wroclaw is currently considering plans to build a metro system, alleviating its traffic problems which infamously placed the city in fourth place in a study o... | |
Oct.28.2011 | |
Budget airline Ryanair has announced that Wroclaw will serve as its 46th base with one plane permanently based in the city's airport. The changes will begin i... | |
Oct.19.2011 | |
Following vigorous campaigning from all sides, Poland went to the polls to elect its next government in a parliamentary election. The centre-right Civic Platfor... | |
Oct.3.2011 | |
It only takes a few minutes to stumble across (sometimes quite literally) a mini statue of a dwarf, the most popular mythological creature in this part of Polan... | |
Sept.29.2011 | |
The Wroclaw Philharmonic is preparing for the official inauguration of its 2011/2012 artistic season, scheduled for October 7 2011. The opening concert will tak... | |
Sep.20.2011 | |
The much anticipated fight between boxing champions Vitali Klitschko and Polish boxer Tomasz Adamek ended in the tenth round, when the referee stopped the fig... | |
Sept.4.2011 | |
One of Wroclaw's most anticipated musical events, the Wratislavia Cantans festival, is now underway. Led by artistic director Paul McCreesh, the festival tends ... | |
Aug.31.2011 | |
As it waits for the construction of a permanent home (to be completed in 2016), the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum will spend the next few years in an air-raid she... | |
Aug.19.2011 | |
Wroclaw's newest addition to its already brimming film-related cultural offerings is the DCF, or Lower Silesian Film Centre, set to open after major renovatio... | |
Aug.11.2011 | |
The city of Wroclaw continues to expand its wifi hotspots, which can be accessed for free by anyone with a laptop or wifi-ready device such as a mobile phone or... | |
Jul.31.2011 | |
The Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival in Wroclaw drew to a close with a ceremony awarding all prizes to the week's most exceptional films. The jury handed the Grand ... | |
Jul.29.2011 | |
The city of Wroclaw is in the running to host the World Games in the year 2017. The World Games, as the name implies is an international event, with a focus o... | |
Jul.26.2011 | |
Arguably Wroclaw's most diverse and vibrant annual event, Nowe Horyzonty Festival, has kicked off ten days of film, art, and music. A film festival first a... | |
Jul.11.2011 | |
The Wroclaw University of Technology is making waves internationally with its latest project, the development of a robot that can display emotion. The robot, na... | |
Jul.4.2011 | |
As Poland winds down its official celebrations for its undertaking of the EU Presidency, it's time to begin planning for the next big cultural event - the Europ... | |
Jun.28.2011 | |
Wroclaw is currently celebrating a great victory for the city, beating Warsaw, Gdansk, Lublin, and Katowice to win a nomination for the 2016 European Capital of... | |
Jun.20.2011 | |
The Wroclaw Days festival is in full swing as the city hosts countless concerts, workshops, performances, and open days in nearly every corner of the town. A fe... | |
Jun.5.2011 | |
This week Wroclaw will celebrate a momentous occasion, counting down only one year left to go until the UEFA Euro football championship in 2012, which will ta... | |
May.30.2011 | |
The city of Wroclaw has a strong Jewish history, and with a resent surge in young Poles rediscovering and embracing their Jewish heritage, festivals of Jewish... | |
May.21.2011 | |
Getting around Wroclaw is about to get a whole lot easier, with the introduction of Wroclaw's newest mode of transportation - the NextBike public bicycle rental... | |
May.11.2011 | |
Wroclaw's mayor has once again topped Newsweek's annual ranking of Polish mayors. Now in his ninth year in the position, Rafal Dutkiewicz is clearly a popular p... | |
May.2.2011 | |
As is the annual tradition on Wroclaw's Market Square, thousands of guitarists - professional and amateur alike - gathered for yet another attempt to break th... | |
April.27.2011 | |
The New Synagogue in Ostrow Wieklopolski, approximately 100 km north-east of Wroclaw, has been awarded "Facade of the Year" in a Poland-wide competition showcas... | |
Apr.11.2011 | |
Poland has marked the one year anniversary of the plane crash which killed the Polish president Lech Kaczynski along with his wife Maria and 94 government off... | |
Mar.30.2011 | |
In what seems to confirm the hypothesis of Wroclaw's academics, the city of Wroclaw appears to have been built on an ancient cemetery. It was during digs on Kuz... | |
Mar.23.2011 | |
Every year, thousands of guitarists gather in Wroclaw’s market square in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for largest guitar ensemble. While last y... | |
Mar.09.11 | |
One of Wroclaw's most popular family attractions, the Wroclaw Zoo, continues to enchant both adults and youngsters alike with its wide variety of creatures on d... | |
Mar.1.2010 | |
Tickets are finally on sale for the Euro 2012 football championship, set to take place jointly in Poland and Ukraine. Wroclaw is one of the four Polish cities... | |
Feb.25.2011 | |
Police in the town of Chojnow have caught a 28-year-old criminal, charged with the theft of 60 carrier pigeons thought to be worth 30 000 złoty (approximat... | |
Feb.14.2011 | |
Starting July this year, Poland will begin its six-month Presidency of the European Union. The most important cultural event associated with the Presidency is t... | |
Feb.6.2011 | |
The scheduled fight between top Polish boxer Tomasz Adamek and current IBF/WBO champion Vladimir Klitchko, which we reported earlier this year, has been confi... | |
Jan.24.2011 | |
One of Wroclaw's most recognizable structures, the Centennial Hall, known in Polish as Hala Stulecia or Hala Ludowa, is currently under extensive renovation. ... | |
Jan.20.2011 | |
Poland's highest state distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, was officially awarded to poet Wislawa Szymborska at a ceremony in the historic Wawel castle... | |
Jan.13.2011 | |
In September of this year, Wroclaw will host the first ever world heavyweight boxing championship in Poland, between top Polish boxer Tomasz Adamek and curr... | |
Jan.4.2010 | |
Poland's beloved Karol Wojtyla, known for much of his life as Pope John Paul II, is on the road to sainthood according to an Italian newspaper called Il Giornal... | |
Dec.29.2010 | |
The city of Wroclaw has taken an usual approach this winter in making its streets more welcoming for pedestrians and locals in freezing temperatures. To combat ... | |
Dec.21.2010 | |
Modern Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki has been awarded the title of Master from the Wroclaw-based Lower Silesian Chamber of Craft. The regional associatio... | |
Dec.16.2010 | |
Poland can now not only boast the largest statue of Jesus in the world (in the town of Swiebodzin), but the residents of the south-western village of Pierwoszow... | |
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