POLAND

OUR COUNTRY

Poland is a part of the European Union

• Poland is situated in the central part of Europe. It occupies the area from the Baltic Sea to the ranges of the Sudety and the Tatra Mountains. Poland is a part of the European Union.

Worth Visiting

Warsaw

• Warsaw is the capital city of Poland. It is also the biggest Polish city with the population of nearly 2 million.

• It is located on the longest Polish river - The Vistula River. It has a lot of tourist attractions. Among the others there are the Royal Castle and Old City, the Royal Way, and the suburban royal residences at Łazienki and Wilanów.

The capital city of Warsaw• Warsaw was rebuilt after its

total destruction during Second World War. Nowadays there are a lot of monuments and historical buildings appreciated by UNESCO.

• Warsaw is also the cultural capital of the country. There are over fifty museums here and over fifty galleries, as well as over thirty professional theatres

Let’s explore Warsaw

Wieliczka

• The Wieliczka mine is one of the greatest tourist attraction. This Salt-Mines Museum has unique documents, and ancient mining tools collections.The mine has nine levels to the depth of about 300 m, approximately 300 km of galleries and nearly 3 thousand chambers decorated with numerous sculptures carved in salt. This is the biggest chapel of Blessed Kinga. In this chamber everything is made of salt.

Famous Poles

Pope John Paul II• He was born on 18 May 1920

and died on 2 April 2005. The official process for beatification began 28 June 2005. Pope John Paul II was respected around the world by both Christians and non-Christians. People called him “people's Pope” or the “Pilgrim Pope” because he travelled great distances. According to John Paul II, the trips symbolised bridge-building between nations and religions.

Fryderyk Chopin

• was a pianist and the greatest Polish composer. He was born in Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw. He spent most of his life abroad (amongst other places, in France). He composed his works especially for the piano, including concerts, polonaises sonatas, etudes, preludes, waltzes, and mazurkas.

Nicolaus Copernicus

• He was an astronomer. He developed a heliocentric theory of the Solar System. He published his discoveries in the work ‘On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres’ (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium).

Adam Małysz

• He was born in 1977. He is the only ski jumper to have won three consecutive World Cup titles, doing so from 2001 to 2003. He is also a winner of the Four Hills Tournament (2000–01) and the only three-time winner of the Nordic Tournament (2001, 2003, 2007).

Marek Kamiński

• He is a traveller. He was the first person who reach both poles. He walked to Spitsbergen - 400 km high) and Greenland’s glaciers -600 km high.

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Pupils at Primary School No 5,Bielsk Podlaski,

Poland