Åland

From: Finland
Category: collection
Date: August 2017

The Åland Islands or Åland is an archipelago at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland. It is autonomous, demilitarised and is the only monolingually Swedish-speaking region in Finland. It is the smallest region of Finland, constituting 0.49% of its land area and 0.50% of its population.

Brussels

Received from: Belgium
Category: Klub Polki na Obczyźnie
Date: May 2017

Venice

Received from: Italy
Category: from a friend
Date:  August 2017

Fjällbacka

Received from: Sweden
Category: from a friend
Date: September 2017

Fjällbacka is a locality situated in Tanum Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 859 inhabitants in 2010. Fjällbacka is mostly known as a summer tourist resort, with a long history.

Święta Lipka

Received from: Poland
Category: from family
Date: July 2017

Święta Lipka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Reszel, within Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres south-east of Reszel, 13 km south-west of Kętrzyn, and 55 km north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn. The village has a population of about 200 and was part of East Prussia until the end of World War II. The village is known for the pilgrimage church, Our Dear Lady of Święta Lipka, a masterpiece of Baroque architecture.

Zakynthos

Received from: Greece
Category: Klub Polki na Obczyźnie
Date: September 2017

Zakynthos is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. Zakynthos is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and its only municipality. It covers an area of 405.55 km2 and its coastline is roughly 123 km in length. The name, like all similar names ending in -nthos, is pre-Mycenaean or Pelasgian in origin. In Greek mythology the island was said to be named after Zakynthos, the son of a legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus.

Sandomierz

Received from: Poland
Category: from family
Date: August 2017

Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz (Polish: Bazylika katedralna Narodzenia NMP w Sandomierzu) is a gothic cathedral constructed in 1360. Renovated in the baroque style in the 18th century, and received the rank of cathedral in 1818.