My Country Poland14/03/08

National flog and emblme

Polish FoodSome of the most traditional Polish dishes are:

• Bigos- Cabbage with meat

• Pierogi i - 2 sorts of dumplings Uszka

• Gołąbki- Stuffed cabbage

• Sernik- Cheese cake

• Makowiec- Poppy seed roll

• Barszcz- Beetroot soup

• Flaki- Tripe soup

•Christmas Eve is another wonderful celebration in Poland.•Usually we spend the whole day preparing for Christmas Eve dinner. We eat 12 different dishes. •Some of them are, barszcz, pierogi, kapusta, etc.•We don't eat meat because of cathlic beliefs.•Under the table we will always put some hay because little Jezus was born in the stable and slept wrapped in a blanket in hay.•Before we sit to the table we have to wait for the first star to apear in the sky.•Before we start eating everybody gets a Christmas wafer and shares it with each person while giving them wishes.•After we finish the meal, the children uswell as parents and other family members get to unpack their presents.•At midnight everybody goes to the nearest church to celebrate the midnight mass, were everybody sings joyful carols.•The next day we have a Christmas breakfast and now we can eat meat.

Christmas

Traditional Polish Clothes• This is one of the most beautiful

traditional polish clothes.• It is called the Łowicki costume.• Woman wear colourful skirts with

flowers and other decorations, white shirts, a black waistcoat, black shoes, a red necklace, red shawl and plaits in the hair with colourful flowers.

• Men wear black shoes, also red trousers with colourful decorations, white shirt, black waistcoat and a black hat.

• There are traditional costumes for each region in Poland.

Famous People

Pope John Paul the II

• John Paul the II, born in Wadowice, Poland, was the 264th Pope in the Roman Catholic Church.

• He was the 1st and only Slavic Pope.

• He was a Pope for almost 27 years until his death accured (84 years of age) on the 2nd of april 2005.

• Over 2 million people came to Vatican City to mourn his death.

Statue of Pope John Paul II,  Cathedral de la Amudena, Madrid

Roman Polański

•Roman Polański is a famous Polish film director, writer, actor and a producer.• He has made films like: Frantic (1988), Death and the maiden (1994), The pianist (2002), Oliver Twist (2005) and more.• The Academy Award-winnig and Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or- winning films were The pianist and Oliver Twist. 

Statue of Nicolas Copernicus inOlsztyn.

Nicolaus Copernicus

•He was born in Toruń on the 19th of February in 1473.• He was the first person to prove that the earth revolves around the sun, not on the contrary.

Fryderyk Chopin born in Żelazowa Bola near Warsaw from a Polish mother and a French expatriot father is believed to be the most

talented pianist and composer of the Romanticism Period. He was also the 1st world known composer to introduce slavic elements in his works, especially his Mazurkas and Polonaises.

Fryderyk Chopin

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