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This is a full directory of all 266 articles about Wroclaw, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.
Dec.5.2010 | |
The holiday season is well and truly underway in Wroclaw, with the Old Town's cobblestoned streets lit up with glittering decorations and the nostalgic Christma... | |
Dec.2.2010 | |
Local government elections took place nationwide in November, seeing Wroclaw's incumbent Rafal Dutkiewicz re-elected as mayor. In Poland's largest cities the ma... | |
Nov.18.2010 | |
Celebrated Polish composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, a native of the nearby industrial Silesian city Katowice, has passed away. His modern classical compositions ... | |
Nov.6.2010 | |
One of Wroclaw's most forward-thinking artistic collectives, the Teatr Piesn Kozla (Song of the Goat Theatre) is currently in London performing their interpreta... | |
Oct.31.2010 | |
As we reported earlier this year, Wroclaw hosted its first ever American Film Festival in October - from the 20th to the 24th to be precise. The festival aimed ... | |
Oct.28.2010 | |
Host cities for the Euro 2012 football championship have unveiled their unique city logos. Wroclaw is one of the handful of Polish cities including Warsaw, Gdan... | |
Oct.18.2010 | |
3D films may be all the rage these days, but they are still 2Ds less than Wroclaw's upcoming 5D cinema which opens Wednesday. The claim behind the 5D phenomenon... | |
Oct.4.2010 | |
As we reported earlier this year, the Dalai Lama was scheduled to visit Wroclaw in September. His visit came on the 22nd as he spent two days speaking to the pu... | |
Sept.21.2010 | |
Wroclaw will be the home to one of Europe's most prestigious concert calls in the autumn of 2012, when the planned National Music Forum is set to open. A ceremo... | |
Sept.15.2010 | |
Respected by its peers and popular with jazz lovers from within its city borders and beyond, Krakow's Jazz Autumn festival kicks off this week in southern Polan... | |
Sept.14.2010 | |
The newest addition to Wroclaw's cityscape is the state of the art Regional Centre for Business Tourism, which celebrated its official opening last weekend. The... | |
Sept.03.2010 | |
A rare pygmy hippopotamus was born in Wroclaw's zoo a couple of weeks ago, and was recently unveiled for the media and public. International media covered the... | |
Aug.31.2010 | |
A 21-year-old student at Wroclaw's School of Banking has been crowned Miss Polski (Miss Poland) at a ceremony in the town of Plock. Agata Szewiola, originally f... | |
Aug.25.2010 | |
A few more weeks of summer are left in Wroclaw, and the city has been taking it easy. There have been a few highlights in the headlines recently, which includ... | |
Aug.16.2010 | |
One of Wroclaw's most stunning buildings is the modernist marvel that is Renoma - a department store and shopping centre in the heart of the city. Built in 1930... | |
Aug.1.2010 | |
It has been confirmed, the Dalai Lama will again visit Wrocław on 22 September. Although details about his activities have not yet been confirmed, His Holi... | |
Jul.22.2010 | |
One of Wroclaw's most exciting cultural happenings - Era Nowe Horyzonty (New Horizons) - begins this week. The film, music, and art festival will feature over 5... | |
Jul.8.2010 | |
Bronislaw Komorowski of the Civic Platform (PO) party has been elected as Poland's newest president following a run-off election against Jaroslaw Kaczynski of... | |
Jun.28.2010 | |
With the arrival of summer comes the arrival of festival season in Wroclaw and across Poland. On the Baltic coast in Gdynia, Poland's largest music festival, Op... | |
Jun.23.2010 | |
Poland headed to the polls last weekend with the intention of choosing the replacement for Lech Kaczynski, the former Polish president who died on 10 April 20... | |
Jun.8.2010 | |
A new sculpture will be unveiled in Wroclaw this year, one with perhaps the most wacky and out-of-this-world concept to date (and Wroclaw already has its share!... | |
May.27.2010 | |
As the water level of the Oder, Widawa, and Olawa rivers slowly drops in Lower Silesia, Wroclaw must now deal with the aftermath of the flood which wreaked havo... | |
May.25.2010 | |
Heavy rainfall in southern Poland last week has triggered a domino effect as flood waters sweep across the country leaving many towns and villages under water. ... | |
May.21.2010 | |
While Wroclaw may not face floods from rainfall alone, flood waters traveling down the Odra river have rapidly increased the risk of flooding in the city. W... | |
May.19.2010 | |
While torrential rain has plagued nearly all of southern Poland in the two weeks, the city of Wroclaw has so far managed to avoid any serious risk of flooding. ... | |
May.12.2010 | |
The White Stork synagogue, the only synagogue in Wroclaw to have survived the war, has reopened its doors after years of extensive renovation. Four days of conc... | |
May.04.10 | |
Thousands of guitarists gathered at Wroclaw's Market Square last weekend as part of the Thanks Jimi festival in an attempt to break their own world record for l... | |
Apr.28.2010 | |
Bad news for drivers headed to Wroclaw- the city has been deemed third most congested in Europe in a survey conducted by UK SatNav company TomTom. First place h... | |
Apr.20.2010 | |
Wroclaw's newest festival has been announced this week - the American Film Festival, set to debut in October of this year. The Festival will be organized by t... | |
Apr.13.2010 | |
The whole of Poland is currently in a state of national mourning following the death of the president Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, and 94 other high level di... | |
10.04.2010 | |
The Polish President Lech Kaczynski, along with at least 87 other Government dignitaries, has died during a failed landing attempt of the Polish Presidential je... | |
Mar.30.2010 | |
The most important holiday in Poland is Easter, when city-bound Poles return home to spend the long weekend with their family. While Easter is absolutely the wo... | |
Mar.18.2010 | |
Now in its 31st edition, the Przeglad Piosenki Aktorskiej is a performing arts festival taking place in Wroclaw every spring. Literally translated as the Review... | |
Mar.09.2010 | |
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Marianna Oranska, better known in English as Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, the city of Wroclaw h... | |
Mar.02.2010 | |
The PKP Polish Railway has announced plans to build a rapid railway that will connect Wroclaw with Warsaw, allowing for an incredible travel time of just 100 mi... | |
Feb.25.2010 | |
The Guinness World Records association has officially awarded the participants of last year's Thanks Jimi festival in Wroclaw their certificate in setting the n... | |
Feb.15.2010 | |
Wroclawian student Jan Galek has reached a world record in highline walking 67 metres in full man (both up and down the line). Highline is a type of slacklining... | |
Feb.11.2010 | |
While Poland's reputation as an extremely devout Roman Catholic nation may be declining, the entire population continues to stick with several traditions based ... | |
Feb.09.2010 | |
Representatives from UEFA associations along with the UEFA president Michel Platini descended on Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science last weekend to particip... | |
Jan.28.2010 | |
With the Vancouver Winter Olympics fast approaching, the question on everyone's lips in Poland is - who will return with a medal? Of its 46 team members acro... | |
Jan.26.2010 | |
A second office for the European Parliament is needed in Poland, and after much fierce debate between Polish MEPs, the city of Wroclaw has been chosen as its lo... | |
Jan.18.2010 | |
It has been a general assumption in Poland, that salaries in the capital city of Warsaw are by far the most desirable. However, a surprise report published in t... | |
Jan.07.2010 | |
In preparation for the Euro football championship set to take place partly in Wroclaw in 2012, the city has been in the process of building a brand new stadium ... | |
Dec.30.2009 | |
There are countless options for celebrating the arrival of the twenty-teens (or however you choose to call the upcoming decade) in Wroclaw, but apart from the u... | |
Dec.23.2009 | |
The entire world was shocked at the news that the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") sign from the entrance of the former concentration camp Au... | |
Dec.16.2009 | |
The Winners of MMWroclaw.pl's "Seven Wonders of Wroclaw" competition have been announced! The surprise winner turned out to be the Jewish Cemetery which won... | |
Dec.11.2009 | |
Wroclaw is a city filled with countless fascinating sights and sounds, not only in the heart of the Old Town but further out as well. In an effort to highlight ... | |
Nov.27.2009 | |
Wroclaw's magical Christmas Market has opened its doors for business starting today, Friday November 27th. There's plenty to do for the whole family throughout ... | |
Nov.20.2009 | |
One of the Wroclaw Opera's soloists Aleksandra Kubas has won the first prize at the 4th International Competition of Opera Singers in Lviv, Ukraine. The sop... | |
Nov.17.2009 | |
The land on which Wroclaw sits has been both vehemently fought over and intensely fought on over its long turbulent history. Many scars remain, and the most lit... | |
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