The hejnał mariacki or ‘trumpet-call of St Mary’s’ is one of the many curiosities of old Cracow ... Samarkand used to be the capital of Uzbekistan and Kraków was once the capital of Poland, it becomes ...

Moments after arriving in Lodz, central Poland, my taxi driver asks what other Polish ... Krakow, and he smiles. “Well,” he says. “Lodz is different.” He mentions the lack of an old ...