Poland has many traditional foods like bigos (cabbage with meat), pierogi (dumplings), and gołąbki (stuffed cabbage). Christmas Eve is an important celebration where families prepare 12 dishes and don't eat meat due to Catholic beliefs. They place hay under the table and wait for the first star before eating and exchanging Christmas wafers. Traditional Polish clothes like the Łowicki costume feature colorful skirts and flowers for women and red trousers for men. Famous Poles include Pope John Paul II, filmmaker Roman Polański, scientist Nicolaus Copernicus, and composer Frédéric Chopin.

1. My Country Poland
14/03/08

2. National flog and emblme

3. Polish Food
Some of the most traditional Polish dishes are:
• Bigos- Cabbage with meat
• Pierogi i - 2 sorts of dumplings
Uszka
• Gołąbki- Stuffed cabbage

4. • Sernik- Cheese cake
• Makowiec- Poppy seed roll
• Barszcz- Beetroot soup
• Flaki- Tripe soup

5. •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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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 in
Olsztyn.
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.

9. 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

10. Polish Money