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Polish
Mutual Benefit and Friendly Society
BRANTFORD
POLISH HALL, 154 Pearl St.
519-753-0414
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Links
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 Poland
Official Site from the Polish Government |
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| Prezydent
- Official Presidential Site |
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| KPRM
- Official Prime Ministerial Site |
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| Sejm
- Official site of the Sejm |
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| Senat
- Official site of the Senate |
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| Sad
Najwyzszy - Official site of the Supreme Court |
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| Trybunal
Konstytucyjny - Official site of the Constitutional Tribunal |
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| Poland
Tourism Information Portal |
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| What
to Do and What to See in Poland - Backpacks and Oars |
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| What
to Do and What to See in Poland - Treasures on the Trail |
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| What
to Do and What to See in Poland - The Sites on the UNESCO List |
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| What
to Do and What to See in Poland - City Entertainment |
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| Warsaw
- Warsaw, the capital city and the largest city of Poland is a lively
city
and also the country`s cultural capital and art centre. Warsaw is also
an extraordinary city, in which historic buildings, palaces, churches
and
architectural complexes, destroyed during the Second World War, have
been
reconstructed with great care. Click on the link to find more info
about
this beautiful city, various travel info, including hotels,
transportation,
sightseeing and a wide range of information on what the city's got to
offer. |
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| Krakow
- For a period of over more than five centuries and a half, from 1040
till
1596, Cracow was both the royal seat and the capital city of Poland,
later,
when it no longer performed capital functions, it remained a scientific
and cultural centre significant for Poland. Fortunately, subsequent
historical
war-clouds left the city’s enormous monuments untouched. |
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| Jasna
Góra - Poland's most famous sanctuary among the numerous
sites to Marian devotion throughout the country. The painting of Our
Lady
is the very core of Jasna Góra drawing crowds of pilgrims to it. |
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| Auschwitz
- All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror,
genocide,
and the Holocaust. It was established by the Nazis in the suburbs of
the
city of Oswiecim which, like other parts of Poland, was occupied by the
Germans during the Second World War. The name of the city of Oswiecim
was
changed to Auschwitz, which became the name of the camp as well. June
14,
1940, when the first transport of Polish political prisoner deportees
arrived
in Auschwitz, is regarded as the date when it began to function. |
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| Torun
- There is no other city in northern Poland that could rival Torun’s
layout
of colourful houses, wonderful monuments and the climate of Old Town,
which
has not been changed for centuries, the most beautiful Polish panorama
- of the illuminated medieval part of the city seen from the Vistula
River
side and streets teeming with tourists. The city is also known for its
gingerbread, the tastiest in Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus birth house
Nicolaus
Copernicus University, the complex of XIX century fortifications
encircling
the city, a rarity on European scale, silent arches of St. Johns
cathedral
- where the great astronomer was baptised, the tomb of princess Anna
Wazówna
in Saint Mary church, The Town Hall of unique beauty, whose courtyard
remembers
the "Torun Mutiny" drowned in blood in 1724... Since 1997 Torun is a
proud
member of the club of cities entered into UNESCO World Cultural and
Natural
Heritage List. Therefore, it is one of a few places in Poland and a few
hundred locations in the world that are regarded as the most valuable
heritage
of humankind. |
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| Gdansk
- The Polish maritime capital with the population nearing half a
million.
It is a large centre of economic life, science, culture, and a popular
tourist destination. Lying on the Bay of Gda?sk and the southern cost
of
the Baltic Sea the city is a thousand years old. With its Hanseatic
tradition,
it has for ages played a major role in the commercial relationships
between
Northern and Western Europe on the one hand, and the countries of
Central
and Eastern Europe on the other hand. Today, Gda?sk is the capital of
the
Pomeranian province and an important administration centre. |
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| Bialowieski
Park Narodowy - Bialowieski National Park is one of the oldest
national parks in Poland and probably the most known and most valuable
one although other parks have a long and glorious tradition as well.
Why
the Bialowieski National Park is so special, not only in Poland but
also
in world? Not only the fact that the beginning of the Park was also the
beginning of Poland after First World War, the Bialowieski National
Park
also has undeniably the value in an unusual forest, the value well
known
and respected by every European generation. It is situated far from the
dynamically developed western Europe. That means that it did not pay
the
price of civilisation which other forests had to pay in the past and
pay
currently. So Polish people are the owners of the relict of the past,
which
witnessed the times when nature ruled the continent. That is the reason
to be proud for every Pole. |
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| Find
out more about National Parks in Poland -
Poland has 23 national parks... |
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| Zakopane
- The most important Polish centre of mountaineering and skiing is
visited
by about three million tourists annually. The town, called the Winter
capital
of Poland, lies in the southern part of the Podhale region at the feet
of the Tatra Mountains, which is the only alpine mountain range in the
Carpathians. |
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| Weather
in Poland |
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| Information
About Poland From The CIA Factbook |
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| National
Bank of Poland |
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| Warsaw
Stock Exchange |
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| Warsaw
Business Jurnal |
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| Poland
- From Wikipedia |
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| Famous
Poles |
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| Regions
of Poland |
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| Landscapes
of Poland |
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| Photos
of the Polish Nature, Cities, Relics and Folklore |
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GREAT
ATTRACTIONS
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The
Salt Mine Wieliczka
The oldest salt
enterprise on Polish
land dating back to the Middle Ages. For centuries it was the source of
the country’s wealth and the material foundation of its culture. Today
it is the most popular Polish tourist attraction with magnificent
chapels,
captivating underground lakes, original tools and equipment, traces of
mining works and much more. The Wieliczka miners have left behind many
salt carvings and murals. After sightseeing, tourists can rest in the
chamber
complex 125 metres underground where they can find souvenir shops, a
restaurant,
and a post office. The mine has nine levels to the depth of 327 m,
approximately
300 km of galleries and nearly 3 thousand chambers. More... |
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Great
Masurian Lakes
The Great
Mazurian Lakes consist
of a few thousands of reservoirs, great, middle, small and tiny ones,
among
which the biggest lake in Poland: Sniardwy is over 22 km long and 13.4
km wide. Unusual beauty and attractiveness of the Great Lakes consist
not
only in the fact that there is great water, but also in the lakes being
connected with rivers and canals into a great navigable system and
last,
but not least, the lakes blend both into the pictorially undulating
post-moraine
landscape and into vast forest complexes, such as the Piska and Borecka
Forests. More... |
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Kalwaria
Kalwaria
Zebrzydowska owes its
existence to the squire of Krakow Mikolaj Zebrzydowski. In the year
1600
he commissioned on the mountain of Zarek the building of the church of
the Sacred Cross, modelled after the church of Golgota in Jerusalem. At
the ceremonial blessing of the church on the 4th October 1601, he
decided
to build a chapel of the Tomb of Christ, similar to the church in
Jerusalem.
To ensure that the holy complex was looked after, Mikolaj Zebrzydowski
invited to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, the franciscan fathers and brothers –
in Polish called Bernardyni – who had also cared for the holy places in
Jerusalem for over 300 years. In 1602 he completed the gesture of
goodwill
and soon he started to build a monastery with an attached small church.
After 1604, Mikolaj Zebrzydowski, having seen the resemblance of his
land
to that of Jerusalem, decided to open places of worship similar to
those
in Jerusalem. More... |
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