Podcast
The Balkans – Art as a Witness to History
This time, we’re travelling around Croatia with Prof. Maciej Czerwiński and talking about one of Croatia’s most important and fascinating writers and intellectuals – Miroslav Krleža…
Article
Dalmatian Michelangelo
There are two Dalmatias: continental and coastal one. Coastal cities were shaped by Mediterranean culture, the continental part by rural, pastoral Dinar culture. Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962), the greatest Croatian artist of the 20th century – he came from the latter. From a hajduk country – relatives of robbers whose legend is remembered as untamed in the fight against the Turks. The coast is the homeland of Emperor Diocletian with the cities of Šibenik, Trogir, Split, which dazzled a teenage sculptor…
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About a vaccine from Lviv
The building at Zielona Street in Lviv, erected just before the outbreak of World War II according to the design of Jan Bagieński, became the seat of the Social Insurance Institution and medical institutions. Today there is a Lviv sanepid and the Faculty of Microbiology at the Medical University…
Podcast
Imaginary capitals
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Europe became a stage for the imagination. As recently as two hundred years ago, Budapest, Prague, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Bratislava were just a few of the many cities within the Habsburg Monarchy. Their future status as capital cities was neither obvious nor “natural”. The nations of which they are now the capitals were only just taking shape or existed in a completely different form…