Location: Europe
Capital: Warsaw (2.134.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Lódz, Krakov, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk, Szczecin
Population: 38,800,000
Area: 312,685 km2
Coin: 1 zloty = 100 groszy
Languages: Polish
Religions: Roman Catholic
The Independence's Year: 1989
Mountains: Sudetes, Beskids
Rivers: Vistula, Oder, Notec

It is the country that maybe more suffered the destructions of the second worldwide war and sharings post war, even with a shifting form west to east of the territory.
The long dictatorship of communist kind slowly finished in the years '80 thanks to two pacifists and ideologically very strong hands: The syndicate Solidarnosc of Lech Walesa and the election and the firm activity of the first Polish Pope Karol Wojtila.
Modern, democratic and entered the European community, Poland is laboriously aligning to the canons of the western Europe, but the traditions and the deep Catholicism remain unchanged.
It is a nation constituted from a very wide lowland furrowed from big rivers (Vistula and Oder) and studded with lakes, made precious from very beautiful towns, among which Krakov.

March '11	March '11
Danzica	La Kashubia

Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page The Old Europe Gallery