For the past 30 years, Halina Krauze has sat atop a 15-metre (49-foot) crane surveying the Gdansk shipyard, the birthplace of the Solidarnosc trade union. For eight hours, the 65-year-old displaces ...

“It’s not for the fainthearted,” says Lauren Fay of her decision to upsticks from her native Galway to the Polish port city of Gdańsk. Fay, “a homebody”, had “never wanted to leave Ireland” and ...

Built largely underground in Gdansk, this museum reframes the Second World War through civilian experience, emphasizing endurance and consequence over spectacle. The first thing visitors notice at the ...

Labour has announced its candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election after Andy Burnham was blocked from standing by Sir Keir Starmer. Angeliki Stogia, Manchester city councillor for ...

Russia will reduce Poland’s diplomatic and consular presence in the country after Warsaw shut the Russian Consulate General in Gdansk, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. ...

Poland has announced it will close its last remaining Russian consulate in the northern Polish city of Gdansk following the targeting of a railway line to Ukraine from Warsaw, blaming Moscow for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View over the historic center of Gdansk on the banks of the Motlawa River Photo: Getty Images/pawel.gaul The Polish city of Gdansk ...

Warsaw's heavy history and lively bustle; red-brick Toruń; Malbork Castle; maritime Gdańsk. Warsaw, the heartbeat of contemporary Poland, is gilded with a grand palace, home to a hard-fought ...

Brits are raving about an underrated European city where pints cost £3 - and it's a mere two-hour flight from the UK. If you’re someone who loves holidaying on a shoestring, then look no further than ...

An unusual discovery has been made beneath the now defunct, iconic ice cream parlour 'Teddy' in Gdańsk. It is the skeleton of a medieval knight, who has been christened the 'Gdańsk Lancelot'. Earlier ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Crews in Poland found a 12th century church last year before the discovery of a knight buried around the turn from the 13th to the 14th century. The ...