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Poland's Aleksandra Mirosław wins gold at European speed climbing championships

Aleksandra Mirosław wins gold at European speed climbing championships. Aleksandra Mirosław/Facebook

Aleksandra Mirosław on Saturday won the speed competition of the IFSC Climbing European Championships, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Lublin lass dubbed ‘Spider Woman’ wins world speed climbing comp in astonishing SEVEN seconds

The 25-year-old climbing sensation scaled the 15-metre wall to take the world title for the second time and break the Polish record for fastest female climber.

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Art & Culture

Wrocław architects beat off over 130 competitors from both home and abroad to win stunning new Stanisław Wyspiański museum design

The museum from Wrocław-based architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner Architekcia will also be a research centre on the poetic and theatrical work of the ‘most outstanding’ Polish artist of the early 20th century.

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Vanishing lives: Descendants of 17th century bearded radicals who fled to Poland from Russia to avoid religious persecution are now facing a new crisis as their numbers slowly dwindle out

It is easy to miss their presence - the three-barred crosses, the wooden banyas and the modest churches – unless you know what to look for. TFN travelled to the regions of Mazury and Suwalszczyzna in north-east Poland to track down the Old Believers, a minority which has almost disappeared, yet which still lingers among the hills, fields and virgin forests in the land of a thousand lakes.

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Events

03/09 - 11/11 #StolenMemory exhibition of Nazi victims opens in Kraków
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11/10 - 20/10 Warsaw Film Festival kicks off
25/10 Polish Tech Day 2019

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