Some facts about Poland

Filed in archive Travel on December 30, 2011

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Located in central Europe, Poland is now a very popular holiday destination among tourists worldwide. In the first years after the revolution of 1989, Budapest and Prague appeared in almost all the headlines.
The polish beauty can be admired in both the old cities and the national parks (famous for the landscape and its wildlife). Country's regions are largely divided horizontally between the Baltic coast and post-glacial lake region.

The central Poland region includes attractions like the Krakow-Wielum limestone caves, or the medieval castles. In the south are located the Carpathian and the Tatra Mountains, which offers facilities for various winter sports and have many folk tradition festivals.Poland is a nation that prides itself with its cultural heritage - the music, theatre and opera companies being found at every corner.

Although in Poland there were born composers like Frederick Chopin, the chemist Marie Curie and the astronomer Nicholas Copernicus, Poland is best known for the Gdansk shipyard strikes, when Lech Walesa and the Solidarity trade union defeated the communist government, in 1980.