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Game of Drones! Polish-Ukrainian project presents stunning aerial images of the former Commonwealth

Over one hundred historical objects and landmarks have been filmed as part of the project, among them, the picturesque Khotyn castle. Association Integration Europe-East

Mysterious castles, sweeping landscapes and bombastic cathedrals all feature in this ground-breaking work.

Tools dating back 40,000 years including double-edged flint knife found in ancient castle cave

The excavations carried out at the castle in Olsztyn and the hill it stands on shed fascinating light on Neanderthal life thousands of years ago.

Witcher crew rolls in to start filming as Netflix brings the series home

Production company will shoot a new series based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski at locations in Poland.

Beautiful Renaissance paintings found hidden behind crude Nazi wall plastering

The designs painted in a polychrome technique of patterned curtains and forest motifs were found at the magical 13th century Książ Castle.

Unseen pre-war pictures of Książ reveal castle’s former glory

Taken in the 1930s by a tourist to what was then Schloss Fürstenstein the pictures provide historians with valuable information on the castle’s interiors.

Back to the past: German aristocrat returns to former family seat to get married

The wedding was the first time in nearly 100 years that a Hochberg-Pless got married in Książ Castle.

Living the dream: Canadian couple quit the rat race to buy a castle

Not far from the town of Leszno, exploring the castle's many nooks and corners the sensation is of walking through a magical, dreamlike kingdom that’s not entirely of this world.

Gold train castle to reveal hidden secrets by opening unseen Nazi-German tunnels

The tunnels, built 15-to-50m below ground level and supervised by senior Nazi Fritz Todt, could contain looted treasure, secret documents and even chemical weapons laboratories.

Krzyżtopór: The Greatest Castle You’ve Never Heard Of

With towers, countless rooms, a labyrinth of cellars, a phantom horseman and legends of buried treasure, Krzyżtopór Castle has more than enough to entertain a visitor.

Książ: Castle of Mysteries

Nestled on a rocky promontory, surrounded by dense, moody forests, there’s an element of mysticism that comes unshakably attached. Looking at it from afar, its everything a castle should be: ominous and striking but with a fairy tale dazzle.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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