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1. New Year’s Eve
...tradition of New Year’s Eve festivities and revelry in Poland dates back to the 19th century. Much older are folk customs surrounding this most special night of the year. In the past, especially in th...
2. New Year
...tradition of these marches goes back to the second half of the 12th century, they are very rare in other regions of Poland. Everybody knows them in Zywiec, because an encounter with a Jukac is a good ...
3. Not just painted eggs
...traditions which have survived in Poland. Easter traditions in museums On Palm Sunday, the ethnographic section of the Mazovian Countryside Museum in Sierpc opened its annual exhibition titled Easter ...
4. St Andrew’s Eve fortune-telling traditions
...tradition, St Andrew—a travelling rabbi, fisherman and St John the Baptist’s disciple—was the patron saint of maidens. It was the ancient Greeks that first noticed Andrew’s links to marriage. For them...
5. Polish baubles have a soul
...traditional folk clothes from Łowicz, Kraków, Kurpie, or Sieradz are very popular. Another top-selling series of baubles are ones decorated with Łowicz-style paper cutters – says Małgorzata Ciszewska....