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Nonstop Fun This Summer
Starting this weekend on the 29th June, and carrying on throughout most of July, Wroclaw's most ambitious and prestigious festival is back to rock the city – Wr... | Art and Culture |
Life's A Beach in Wroclaw...
As good ideas go, they don't get much better than this one... the forward thinking people at Lemoniada nightclub have pulled out all the stops and landscaped a ... | City Focus |
Wroclaw Breaks Guinness World Record
"What has Jimi Hendrix got to do with Wroclaw Poland?" isn't the start of a bad joke, but a question many wayfarers may be prompted to ask when they hear about ... | Art and Culture |
Salvador Dali in Wroclaw
Sculptures by the master of the surreal, Salvador Dali, are not what you expect to see when you go shopping in Lower Silesia, but nonetheless retail therapists ... | Art and Culture |
Make A Splash This Spring
Waterbabies rejoice! The long awaited Wroclaw Aquapark has finally opened, offering visitors to the city the chance to make a big Silesian splash this Springtim... | City Focus |
The Sound Of Music...
...will be forever changed in Wroclaw once plans for a vast new music venue are realised in 2011.
That's right, just days after a sparkling new Centre of the... | Art and Culture |
New Art Centre for Wroclaw
Great news for culture cats coming to the capital of Lower Silesia, a whole new bastion of the arts has just opened up its new centre for exploration.
The WR... | Art and Culture |
Musica Polonica Nova
Musical migrants will find a feast to savour in Wroclaw over the coming days. The 26th Festival of Contemporary Polish Music is getting into gear, with a host o... | Art and Culture |
Wroclaw Scientists Are Leg Men
Ok so they haven't found a cure for cancer, or even the common cold, neither have they discovered a solution for viable and cost-efficient energy sources in the... | Comment |
New Bournemouth to Wroclaw Connection
Low-cost carriers and pioneers of the budget flight, Ryanair are expanding operations at Bournemouth adding five new routes from the southern coastal resort in ... | Comment |
The Tallest Christmas Tree in Europe
Yes this little city in Poland which we lovingly refer to as Wroclaw is staking a new claim to raise its status on the European map... The capital of Lower Sile... | Art and Culture |
Wroclaw Loses Out On Expo 2012
Despite the months of hard work and preparation Wroclaw's hopes of hosting the Expo 2012 were cruelly shattered last night in Paris.
The three way race betwe... | Art and Culture |
Poland Qualifies for Euro 2008
The Wroclaw Life team don't often go to bed early on a Saturday night, but even they couldn't keep up with the hosts of enthusiastic Poles who celebrating their... | City Focus |
Snow Marks Polish Independence Day
Wroclawians this morning woke up to the first snowfall of the winter as Polish Independence Day dawned.
11th November 1918 was one of the most joyful days of... | History |
Poland Looks Foward Under New Government
There was cause for celebration in Wroclaw and the whole of Poland this week, when it was announced that the Kaczynski twins had been ousted from power and that... | Current Affairs |
Stalin's Victims Unearthed
Remains of victims of the brutal Stalinist regime, which affected Poland post-WWII, were uncovered in a Wroclaw cemetery earlier this month. After Poland became... | History |
Perfect Crime Punished With 25 Years
Krystian Bala has been sensationally jailed for 25 years for the planning and leading of the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski - despite no concrete evidence being ... | Current Affairs |
Crime Author On Trial For Murder
A sinister and controversial case has arisen in Wroclaw containing shades of Paul Verhoeven's 1992 thriller Basic Instinct. Here in Wroclw crime author Krystian... | Current Affairs |
Will Poland Be Ready For Euro 2012?
Earlier this week Sports Minister Elzbieta Jakubiak gave food to critics and doubters of Poland's Euro 2012 bid by announcing that more time was needed for the ... | Current Affairs |
Polish Doctors Save Iraqi Girl
Polish doctors from Wroclaw were called on to perform a live-saving operation on ten-month-old baby girl, Jannat from Iraq. Jannat is lucky enough to have a gra... | Current Affairs |
Wizzair Increases Flights to Wroclaw
Lowcost carrier Wizzair has announced two more flights to Wroclaw Copernicus Airport, from London Luton and Doncaster (Sheffield), which will start operating in... | Comment |
Wroclaw Airport To Grow
Wroclaw's diminutive Copernicus Airport is to receive considerable expansion in a project that will cost 670 million Polish zloty (around 175 million euros).
... | City Focus |
Wroclaw Downloadable PDFs!
If you've been visiting us at Wroclaw Life recently you may have noticed a rather eye-catching red button at the left of every page. The curious amongst you may... | Comment |
Wroclaw Bids For Expo 2012
Not content with winning the rights to host Euro 2012, the pluckiest city in Poland is going all out to host the Expo 2012 as well!
What is an Expo anyway? W... | City Focus |
Wroclaw Welcomes Euro 2012
Not only was it great news for Poland and Ukraine when it was announced that their joint bid had won the right to host Euro 2012, but also it was a great boost ... | Current Affairs |
Google chooses Wroclaw
Yes, those search engine giants from the US have decided to cast their eye over sunny Poland in search for a bonnie spot to set up shop.
Having successfully ... | Business |
The End Is Near
The Wroclaw-based AmRest restaurant group has announced their signing of an agreement with the colossal US coffee company Starbucks, which could result in the o... | Business |
Scots Criticised for Off-kilter Humour
It seems the good citizens of Wroclaw have been unimpressed with the views on the Rynek recently, as groups of Scottish stag parties have been going around in a... | Comment |
New, Improved Wroclaw Map!
Here it is, boys and girls - our new and improved, ready to be abused Wroclaw map! (Notice our excitement!) Go ahead, give it try, click at will, drag it around... | City Focus |
Credit Suisse Open in Wroclaw
Further proof, if any was needed, of Wroclaw's status as a boom city is the welcome arrival of Credit Suisse 'Centre of Excellence' in the Lower Silesian capita... | Business |
Wroclaw to Receive Facelift
Great news for citizens of Wroclaw and fans of this splendid city. The Wroclaw Municipal Council has just announced that four hundred of its most forlorn buildi... | City Focus |
Wroclaw Life interviewed by the BBC
For those of you who don't know none other than the BBC were in Wroclaw recently to scope out what all the fuss is about in this amazing capital of Lower Silesi... | City Focus |
BBC broadcast from Wroclaw!
Ever since Poland's accession to the EU in 2004, Poles have been leaving their country en masse and heading to the lands of their West European neighbours, seek... | City Focus |
Roman Invasion
The Romans never made it as far as fair Polska during their Empire days but thanks to Central Wings, those Italian wayfarers finally have the chance to touch do... | Business |
EUR 24.5m for Railway in Poland
The Polish national network manager signed a deal with Bombardier Transportation (ZWUS) Polska that will provide a total of EUR 24.5m for the design, supply and... | Comment |
Food for thought
As part of the BBC Wales 'Me & My Health' season, David Williams has been making a documentary investigating the links between poverty and ill-health. The film,... | Comment |
Diehl launches R&D centre in Wroclaw
Warsaw (Puls Biznesu) – The German company Diehl Controls, which has a plant 60km from Wroclaw, is launching a Research and Development centre in the city. Fift... | Business |
Miss Northern Ireland on song
Miss Northern Ireland has sung her way into the Miss World 2006 final by winning the competition's talent show.
Catherine Milligan, from Newtownards, stunned... | Art and Culture |
Miss Worlds flock to cultural Mecca
WARSAW.- The contestants of the Miss World Pageant are flocking to Poland’s western city of Wroclaw, a cultural Mecca on the country’s Odra river.
The contes... | City Focus |
Football president on corruption charges
Another football official has been detained on corruption charges. The president of a second division club from Bydgoszcz is being accused of offering bribes to... | Comment |
Papal letters returned to Poland
A collection of 13th Century letters, found among the belongings of a US World War II veteran, has been returned to Poland.
Some of the letters were written ... | History |
Polish anger at Berlin exhibition
A contraversial new exhibition in Berlin, entitled "Forced Paths - Flight and Expulsion in Europe During the 20th Century" has got the Polish press up in arms. ... | History |
Centennial Hall joins UNESCO's list
The Centennial Hall in Wroclaw has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of humanity's outstanding natural and cultural legacy.
The Centennial Hall wa... | Art and Culture |
Wroclaw NonStop off to a good start!
After the traditional excitement and fever pitch celebrations of Midsummer Night or 'Wianki' on the 24th June, it was definitely time for something more chilled... | Art and Culture |
400 Poles on the Midlands buses
An army of more than 400 Polish drivers has been drafted in to work on buses in the West Midlands, UK, the Express & Star can reveal.
The newcomers, who were... | Comment |
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