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Palace of Culture excavation reveals unmapped corridors and secret VIP rooms

The discoveries were made last week during ongoing excavation work conducted by the city as part of a PLN 60 million project to revive Pl. Defilad. Paweł Supernak/PAP

Work on Warsaw’s Pl. Defilad has revealed pre-war artefacts and secret rooms that were once used by Communist Party dignitaries.

A secret tunnel, a mystery name and long-hidden treasures unearthed at site of Warsaw’s Bruhl Palace

Archaeologists made the startling discoveries as work on the palace foundations gets underway before its much-anticipated reconstruction.

Deputy PM opens new Swinoujscie tunnel

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the deputy prime minister and leader of the governing Law and Justice party, on Friday lauded the opening of a new tunnel that will link two until-now separated parts of Swinoujscie, a town in north-western Poland bordering Germany.

Polish tunnel builders in Denmark win same pay as locals

Poles working on a twin tunnel under the Fehmarn Belt strait in Denmark have achieved pay parity with Danish workers in a deal struck between unions and the FLC consortium behind the investment.

Officials probe ‘masonic tombs’ in move to uncover their forgotten secrets

The U-shaped, underground brick corridor, which is now home to a protected colony of bats, is dug into Warsaw’s escarpment in the south of the city. But although its existence has been known for a long time, what it actually was, when exactly it was built and who built it remain unknown.

Lublin builders find Nazi bunker during underground carpark construction

Inside archaeologists came across bullets belonging to both German and Soviet troops leading researchers to believe it could have been the site of fierce fighting in 1944.

Nazi tunnels inside inactive VOLCANO could hide long-lost archive of Kraków Gestapo, say explorers

Thought to contain WWII secrets including traitors, the archive believed to be inside the Bond-like underworld complex has been described as ‘an invaluable source of information about the dark times of the WWII occupation.’

Sandomierz, a magical town full of beauty and mystery

The modest size of Sandomierz makes it extremely digestible, and having ticked off the Rynek its natural to find yourself ambling to a castle which, after the correct amount of hallucinogens, could easily be mistaken for a miniature Wawel.

Secret network of tunnels found at former Nazi German army HQ raise speculation they could contain legendary Amber Room

The find, which was made by staff from the Mamerki museum in northeast Poland and a group of volunteer historical searchers, is described as the biggest discovery ever made at the 200-hectare forest headquarters.

KGB spy base, mafia nightclub, secret tunnels… what is really going on in this quiet Warsaw suburb?

Bristling with security cameras and surrounded by a solid steel and marble fence with barbed wire, Sobieskiego 100 is just one of several buildings that is occupied by Russia following agreements signed between the People's Republic of Poland and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

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