What are Christmas tradition in Poland? Okay, in order to attract you finding what are the tradition in Poland during Christmas, below are some quick preview about it.
In Poland, some families did not eat all day on December 24, but when the first star appears in the sky at night, dinner was served. The meal usually the most extravagant food and varied throughout the year. An empty chair installed near the table to give a message, “Jesus was invited to the dinner table.” On this Christmas Eve meal, the body of Christ given by the preacher or pastor in each family.
Poland is country with majority of the population are Catholics, Christmas is one of the most important celebrations in Poland. On December 25-26 declared as official holiday Poland, and usually during these 2 days all the stores and shopping centers were shut. Big cities in Poland also feels more and more quiet, as in Warsaw, because a few days before Christmas as most people do in Europe and USA, they returned home to gather with their family.
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Poland are well know with its favorite food, Kielbasa, or often called as Poland sausage. But in Poland there are several type of sausage, one of it is Lisiecka sausage.
According to the history of the discovery of this Lisiecka sausage products started when the establishment of cooperatives under the sausage factory “Peasant Self-Help”. For approximately 50 years, the company that produces sausage sausage Lisiecka has gained the trust and high reputation among the people of Europe. In 1990, the Polish sausage manufacturers jointly set up a consortium in charge of promoting and providing protection for its sausage products.
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Marie Curie is a French chemist and physicist born in Poland, which until now were the only people who ever get the Nobel prize in two different fields, namely physics and chemistry. Her discovery made Marie Curie in the field of radioactivity into the list of influential inventors to the world. Marie Curie was the first woman Nobel Prize winner and also was the first woman professor at the university, Universities of Paris.
Although the nationality of France, Marie Curie has never lost a sense of pride as a Pole. The discovery of the first chemical element found in 1898 was named “polonium” and the subsequent discovery of the radium a few months later. Radium is a radioactive substance which is widely used in the medical field and medicine, usually to remove cancer cells to irradiate the cancer with radioactive substances.
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Talking about Poland, there’s a great name often related into it, Karol Józef Wojtyla or we used to called him as Pope John Paul the 2nd.
Pope John Paul II was someone who very much loved by the people of Poland, no doubt about it! Born in Wadowice, Poland in 1920. Before becoming Pope, he studied at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and became archbishop in the city for 15 years. Krakow community called “Wujek Lolek” (Uncle Chuck), and he is known as a friendly person, like humor, and fond of exercise. He played a lot of skiing and hiking with young children! Not surprisingly, the city of Krakow in Poland has the most / build historical places associated with him.
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Great magnet for tourist and football or soccer lovers will flow in Poland and Ukraine next years. Why? because next year biggest football event in Europe will be held in these two countries.
You might wonder about the preparation, lets find out. Poland seems to be really serious in doing its national stadium construction in order to qualify as a world-class arena football game. On June 8, 2012, the opening match of EURO 2012 will be held at the Stadium Narodowy (National Stadium) in Warsaw, Poland.
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