Poland Pallas Athena

The vast medieval castles of the Teutonic Knights, primeval forests with Europe`s only bison, untouched Renaissance model towns, lively folk traditions in the Tatra mountains - these are only some of the unexpected treasures awaiting the traveller to Poland. Nevertheless, for the English-speaking world Poland remains a land of romance, and her spectacular artistic and natural beauties are still relatively unexplored.First as the powerful bulwark of Christendom against the East in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and then as a victim of rapacious neighbours, Poland`s fate has been central to European culture. Her turbulent history has left a wealth of monuments and historic landscapes that have virtually been hidden from the rest of the world.This is a second revised edition of what is by far the fullest and most detailed guide ever published in English.