Warsaw – Poland

Warsaw is Poland’s capital and largest city, with 1.7 million inhabitants. It is on the Vistula River in the middle of the country. Warsaw’s history of rapid development after many wars that ravaged and destroyed the city has earned it a reputation as a “phoenix city”, able to recreate itself from the ruins and regain its…

Zakopane, Poland

Zakopane is a very popular winter resort and summer getaway town in the Tatra mountains on the southern tip of Poland. It became a climatic health resort and as well as cultural spot in the 1880s. Many Polish writers and artists visited Zakopane at the turn of the 20th century. Stanisław Witkiewicz developed the so-called…

The Path to Morskie Oko, Tatra National Park – Poland

The Path to Morskie Oko, Tatra National Park – Poland   Tatra National Park  TANAP is a national park. It constitutes the highest mountainranges in Slovakia, and extends from the northern parts of Central Slovakia to Eastern Slovakia. As the mountains form a natural border between Slovakia and Poland, a smaller part of the mountain range…