Nineteenth-century view of Palazzo Pitti in Florence Cradle of civilization and an open-air masterpiece, Florence it became, between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the most important city in Europe. The culture gave it an unparalleled prestige and art that it was able to favor and
There are several relations and they could not be more different. At the time of his death, did Łokietek threaten his son with disgrace if he turned out to be a failure, or on the contrary - did he beg his advisers to love Kazimierz as much as his father? In politics and in war, fortune seemed to
President Gabriel Narutowicz was walking around the building of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts when three fatal shots were fired. How was the first Polish president murdered? Poland, reborn as a result of World War I, was generally regarded as a temporary creature, or, as the Germa
We are attacked by Christmas music from the radio, and wherever we look, Santa Clauses, dressed as in a Coca Cola advertisement, grin at us. However, before we fall into the cooking, baking and cleaning frenzy, it is worth stopping and checking how our great-grandmothers prepared for Christmas.