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Turn the pages of the guide.
 
What is a Personal Planner?
Other Resources
Poniecki Foundation: a massive compendium of Polish links emanating from Berkeley, California.
Czeslaw Milosz: the Polish poet and Nobel laureate reads from his works.
Polish World: a Yahoo-like directory to "virtual Polanica," i.e. Polish sites.
Donajski's Digital Gallery: an excellent gallery site featuring Poland's young artists.
Polish National Tourist Office: a wealth of information about travelling to Poland.
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The Berkeley Guides:
Berkeley Guide to Europe:
Poland
By Meir Rinde and Matthew Waxman
Through 600 years of history, Kraków's streets have seen the construction of medieval castles, Gothic and baroque Catholic churches, and universities; they've witnessed Poland conquered, partitioned, and erased from the map of Europe by waves of invaders; they've felt the footsteps of German knights, Napoleon's officers, Hitler's armies, and Soviet soldiers. In the spring of 1989, these same streets, witnesses to 30 generations of the Polish struggle for independence and statehood, saw the wheel of history spin in favor of the Poles. Solidarity, the workers' trade union, was given a chance to participate in the first free elections in Eastern Europe since World War II. In the streets of Kraków, protest demonstrations soon underwent metamorphoses, becoming election campaigns; a new generation of Poles discovered democracy and celebrated the birth of an autonomous Poland.
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