restoration

Looted WWII masterpiece goes back on display after being found in shopping centre car park

Unveiled on Tuesday in the Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in the Kraków’s Cloth Hall, Maksymilian Gierymski's 1872 landscape Winter in a Small Town is considered one of the most important pieces of Polish art. Kalbar/TFN

Unveiled on Tuesday in the Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in the Kraków’s Cloth Hall, Maksymilian Gierymski's 1872 landscape Winter in a Small Town is considered one of the most important pieces of Polish art.

Restoring the historic beauty of Wałbrzych Main Station

First built in 1867, the renovation has restored Wałbrzych’s historic beauty, including the brick elevation and its most valuable architectural details.

Iconic café ‘inspired by temples of Ancient Greece’ back in business after loving restoration

Originally opened in 1911, Café Berg was where locals would flock to drink beer, coffee and goat’s milk whilst enjoying concerts and views gazing down on gondoliers in the summer and ice skaters in the winter. 

Grave business! Teen spends five years restoring German cemetery to ‘give back dignity’

Piotr Marczenia (bottom right) from Świebodzin in Western Poland began cleaning up the forgotten Evangelical cemetery in the nearby village of Podła Góra in 2015 after becoming fascinated with the lives of those who had lived in the place where his mother had been born.

Iconic stained-glass windows make historic return to Gdańsk central station

VIDEO: The windows were created in a specialist artists’ workshop with the use of ‘cathedral glass’. In order to protect it, a windshield will be built from the outside and a glass shield from the inside of the hall.

Back on track: Train buffs raise cash to restore ‘protest train at heart of June 1976 strikes’

A silent witness to the violent protests that took place on June 25 as workers took to the streets to demand an end to price increases, the EPO5-22 became caught up in the scuffles when strikers pushed it with their bare hands onto a section of dismantled track.

Farmer spends seven years lovingly restoring crumbling old Czartoryski palace after ‘feeling sorry’ for it

Passing the abandoned palace in Lower Silesian every day on his way to work, crop farmer Józef Żałobniak eventually decided to buy the place and turn it into a hotel spa saying: “I wanted to save it for other people to enjoy. That was my dream.”

Brew-tiful: the legendary 1950s roasting machine wowing Poland’s coffee geeks!

Discovered rusting in a barn, the machine took three-years to restore before becoming the ace card in a father and son’s coffee business.

Good heavens! Historic wooden church returned to its best after stunning facelift

Found in the village of Pasynki, the 19th century church has been cited as one of the most striking examples of wooden ecclesiastical architecture in Eastern Poland.

Ten years down the line, the restoration of a historic Polish cemetery in what is now Ukraine nears completion

The graveyard in Jampol is one of 130 Polish cemeteries currently undergoing restoration in Ukraine.

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