1. POLAND

2. Our food specialities

3. Dumplings
The dumplings are made of dough and filling. To make a dough you have to use flour, water and salt. A filling is made with potatoes, onions and cheese but there is an option with meat or strawberries. They must be boiled in water for 3 minutes.

5. Beetroot soup
It’s a traditional Polish soup. It is eaten on Christmas Eve, too but with little dumplings. It’s made of beetroots, potatoes, red beens, apples, garlic and marjoram. You can serve it with cream.

7. Poppyseed cake
The poppy seed roll is a pastry consisting of a roll of sweet yeast bread with a dense, rich, bittersweet filling of poppy seed. An alternative filling is a paste of minced walnuts, making it a walnut roll. The dough is made of flour, sugar, egg yolk, milk or sour cream and butter, and yeast. The dough may be flavored with lemon or orange zest or rum. The poppy seed filling may contain ground poppy seeds, raisins, butter or milk, sugar or honey, rum and vanilla.

9. Beef rolls
There are rolled vegetables in meat. Traditional rolls are made of beef or pork. The filling is made of carrots, cucumbers, mustard, black pepper and peppers. They are served with dark brown sauce and potatoes.

11. Monuments in Poland

12. Wawel Castle
The Wawel Castle is a castle residency built at the behest of King Casimir III the Great, who reigned from 1333 to 1370, and consists of a number of structures situated around the central courtyard. In the 14th century it was rebuilt by Jogaila and Jadwiga of Poland. Their reign saw the addition of the tower called the Hen's Foot (Kurza Stopka) and the Danish Tower.

14. Royal Castle in Warsaw
The Royal Castle in Warsaw is a castle residency that formerly served throughout the centuries as the official residence of the Polish monarchs. It is located in the Castle Square, at the entrance to the Warsaw Old Town. The personal offices of the king and the administrative offices of the Royal Court of Poland were located there from the sixteenth century until the Partitions of Poland.

16. Łazienki Park
Łazienki Park is the largest park in Warsaw, Poland, occupying 76 hectares of the city center. The park-and-palace complex lies in Warsaw's central district on Ujazdów Avenue on the "Royal Route" linking the Royal Castle with Wilanów Palace to the south. North of Łazienki Park, on the other side of Agrykola Street, stands the monumental Ujazdów Castle. Originally designed and built as a baths park in the 17th century for nobleman Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, it was later transformed by King of Poland Stanisław II Augustus into a garden filled with palaces, manors, picturesque buildings and monuments.

18. Sports in Poland

19. Speedway
Motorcycle speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes; racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt, loosely packed shale. Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track the motorcycles reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).

21. Football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. Our most popular players are Robert Lewandowski, Łukasz Piszczek, Jakub Błaszczykowski, Grzegorz Krychowiak, Arkadiusz Milik and Łukasz Fabiański. In 2016 our National Representation was in semi finals of Euro 2016.

23. Franek Olechnowicz Kasia Szyngiel Natalia Szpyra
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Franek Olechnowicz
Kasia Szyngiel
Natalia Szpyra