The wonder of Poland. Closer than you think.

"Weekly summer folk-craft workshops at the home estate of the legendary Mazowsze ensemble, where visitors learn traditional costumes, weaving and song in a working rural arts centre."

Lato w Karolinie, Wystrój się na ludowo

"A beloved annual music and arts gathering set in the limestone-cliff town of Kazimierz Dolny, drawing folk-roots, world and indie acts to open-air stages above the Vistula."

Kazimiernikejszyn

"A distinctive kalwaria procession through the 30-chapel Way of the Cross on Góra Świętej Anny, honouring Our Lady of Mount Carmel with outdoor Masses and traditional Upper Silesian pilgrimage customs."

Odpust Matki Bożej Szkaplerznej (obchody kalwaryjskie)

"Archery tournaments, knightly combat and hussar charges unfold beside the Janów Reservoir, tracing Polish arms from the early Piast era to the modern day."

Festiwal Oręża Polskiego

"A UNESCO-affiliated annual gathering in this small Kashubian town where folk groups from Poland and across the world perform traditional music, dance and crafts against the backdrop of the Kashubia lake district."

Międzynarodowy Festiwal Folkloru "Kaszubskie Spotkania z Folklorem Świata"

"The great annual patron feast of Upper Silesia's most venerated pilgrimage hill, with solemn Masses in a Franciscan baroque basilica, kalwaria processions through 30 chapels, and crowds of pilgrims from across Silesia and Germany gathering around the feast of St Anne on 26 July."

Uroczystości Odpustowe ku czci św. Anny

"A traditional village fete organised by the Radziłów municipal library bringing together local producers, folk performers and the rural community of this small Podlaskie gmina."

Festyn w Radziłowie

"A multi-day summer festival celebrating the small multicultural town of Kleszczele on the edge of the Białowieża Forest, with folk performances, local food and community events."

Dni Kleszczel

"A village schoolyard becomes a stage for regional folk ensembles and a tasting market of Beskid Wyspowy home cooking, celebrating the distinct highland culture of the Gmina Limanowa villages."

XIII Festiwal Kultury Beskidu Wyspowego "Beskidzkie Rytmy i Smaki"

"The Franciscan feast of the Porziuncola indulgence celebrated at the Upper Silesian hilltop sanctuary, drawing pilgrims including a large Motorcyclists' Pilgrimage to Mass in the Lourdes Grotto."

Odpust Porcjunkuli (Uroczystości Matki Bożej Anielskiej)

"A week-long open-air festival held at a rural venue near Rogalino in the Świdwin district, gathering performers and audiences in the West Pomeranian countryside each August."

Summer Contrast Festival

"Hot-air balloons from across the world fill the skies above this elegant spa resort, combining breathtaking aerial spectacle with artistic events among Nałęczów's park-and-villa scenery."

Międzynarodowe Zawody Balonowe w Nałęczowie

"An outdoor musical gathering in the riverside village of Mielnik, set against the dramatic chalk cliffs of the Bug River valley, blending folk and traditional music with the spectacular Podlaskie landscape."

Muzyczne Dialogi nad Bugiem

"A two-day medieval fair in the walled village of Łagów, set around the Knights Hospitaller castle, with a jousting tournament, pottery wheel, legend-telling, period-costume market and children's medieval games."

Jarmark Joannitów w Łagowie

"This groats-and-cranberry celebration beside the Janów Reservoir pays homage to the buckwheat traditions of the Janów Roztocze, with folk art stalls, tastings and open-air performances."

XXII Festiwal Kaszy i Żurawiny "Gryczaki"

"Three days of Assumption-tide kalwaria observances at Silesia's most important Franciscan sanctuary, combining outdoor processional liturgy with centuries-old pilgrimage tradition."

Odpust Wniebowzięcia NMP (obchody kalwaryjskie)

"On the Assumption feast day, this open-air herb fair at the Podegrodzie village estate brings together growers, healers and craftspeople for workshops on wreath-making, candle-dipping and wild-plant foraging."

Ziołomania

"A traditional harvest thanksgiving festival in the small village commune of Grabowo, featuring the ceremonial wreath procession, bread-sharing ritual and folk ensemble performances on the Feast of the Assumption."

Dożynki Gminne w Grabowie

"A free open-air market of local artisan producers held at the Kraina Żubra visitor centre in Białowieża village, showcasing honey, forest foods and traditional crafts from the UNESCO World Heritage forest region."

Kiermasz Produktów Lokalnych Regionu Puszczy Białowieskiej

"One of the first village harvest festivals in Greater Poland each year, held on the Assumption of Mary, with the traditional wreath procession and folk music of the Gostyń district."

Dożynki Gminne w Głogówku

"A traditional fair anchored to the feast of St Hyacinth fills the square of this small Sandomierz-district town, organised by the local culture centre with folk groups and craft stalls."

Jarmark na Święto Świętego Jacka

"The harvest rite of this small sulphur-spa village on the Nida plain unfolds at the local stadium on Assumption Day, with a wreath procession, folk bands and a blessing of the harvest crown."

Dożynki Gminne w Solcu-Zdroju

"The gmina Tokarnia harvest festival gathers all village brass bands, KGW women's circles and wreath-bearers in a procession to the historic manor park, keeping alive the full Małopolska dożynki ritual of thanksgiving Mass and communal bread-breaking."

Dożynki Gminne w Tokarni

"A village eco-market in a small Gmina Leżajsk settlement brings together organic growers, herbalists and artisan food producers in a low-key setting that keeps alive the market-day customs of this San-valley rural commune."

Jarmark Ekologiczny

"A classic Upper Silesian village patron feast on the feast of St Roch, featuring a solemn parish Mass, odpust stalls with traditional fairground confectionery, and an evening community dance."

Odpust Parafialny ku czci św. Rocha w Dąbrówce Górnej

"The annual harvest festival of Łódź Voivodeship gathers 120 rural Koła Gospodyń Wiejskich in the small village of Buczek for a traditional wieniec procession, bread-sharing ceremony, and folk performances from across the region."

Dożynki Województwa Łódzkiego

"Poland's oldest and largest hop-and-beer festival, held continuously since 1971 in the heart of the Lublin hop-growing region, combines craft-brewery showcases and a consumers' beer competition with concerts and a traditional hop-harvest fair."

Ogólnopolskie Święto Chmielarzy i Piwowarów "Chmielaki Krasnostawskie"

"A living-history nobleman's gathering at the village community hall in Łapy-Szołajdy, reviving Mazovian-Podlaskie gentry customs along the Narew River with costumed processions, feasting and folk music."

Narwiański Zajazd Szlachecki

"A singular village harvest-feast-turned-food-festival in Przytoczna where the tomato is the star: parades, cooking contests for the best tomato dish, fishing competitions and folk concerts make it one of Lubusz's most characterful summer gatherings."

Święto Pomidora w Przytocznej

"Bledzew's annual Cistercian Fair revives the medieval market tradition of the old Cistercian abbey town, combining the village's dożynki harvest rites with a Cystersiada folk-choir review, knight-combat displays and a charity road race."

Jarmark Cysterski wBledzewie

"An intimate annual early-music festival held each late August in the former Cistercian monastery and church at Paradyż, drawing chamber ensembles to one of Lubusz's finest historic village complexes."

Muzyka w Raju w Paradyżu

"Held at the historic Dworek Starościński alongside the Chmielaki beer festival, this national folk arts fair gathers regional craft-makers and folk ensembles in a manor-house courtyard setting."

Ogólnopolski Festiwal Kultury i Sztuki Ludowej

"This quirky village mushroom festival celebrates the forests and foragers of the Borzęcin commune with tasting competitions, wild-mushroom stalls, cooking contests and folk music in the village centre."

Święto Grzyba

"The Grębów gmina harvest celebration is a full traditional dożynki with a ritual wreath-carrying procession to the parish church, obrzędowy folk performances and an evening concert that draws the whole commune together."

Dożynki Gminne Grębów - Gminne Święto Plonów

"An intimate village odpust in the Prószków dekanat honouring Our Lady the Queen, with solemn suma odpustowa, teoforyczna procession, and odpust stalls characteristic of the Opole Silesia village tradition."

Odpust Parafialny ku czci Matki Bożej Królowej w Ochodzach

"The harvest festival of Gmina Santok in the village of Stare Polichno on the Warta River, attended by regional government and local farm families celebrating the closing of the agricultural year with traditional dożynki rites."

Dożynki Gminne w Starym Polichnie

"Gmina Lubiszyn's annual harvest thanksgiving in the village of Tarnów, a small community event where the harvest crown is paraded and local women's circles present regional food and folk crafts."

Dożynki Gminne w Tarnowie

"This national showcase of traditional peasant cooking in a San-valley village draws KGW teams from across Poland to recreate century-old recipes, judged by folk-cuisine specialists in a living-village setting."

Włościańskie Jadło - Ogólnopolskie Prezentacje Tradycyjnych Włościańskich Potraw

"A joint district-and-commune harvest feast in the village of Dąbrowa Biskupia, famous for its elaborate straw-figure welcomers lining the approach roads, greeting visitors from across the Inowrocław district."

Dożynki Powiatowo-Gminne w Dąbrowie Biskupiej

"The Lubuskie Bread Festival in Bogdaniec is a recurring celebration of regional baking tradition, drawing artisan bakers, folk musicians and local producers to a village feast centred on the ceremonial loaf."

Lubuskie Święto Chleba w Bogdańcu

"A cross-border harvest feast in the village of Kije bringing together farmers and allotment holders from the twin communes of Sulechów and Fürstenwalde in Germany, celebrating shared agricultural heritage across the Lubuskie-Brandenburg border."

Euroregionalne Święto Rolników w Kijach

"Held in a village that is also home to the Museum of Poles Who Saved Jews, the Tarnawka gmina harvest festival brings together wreath processions, a thanksgiving Mass and folk concerts in one of Podkarpackie's most historically distinctive rural communities."

Dożynki Gminne Gminy Markowa w Tarnawce

"The Krapkowice gmina harvest celebration in the village of Kórnica, where a Sunday procession of grain-wreath floats leads into a full afternoon of Silesian folk ensembles, including the Kamraty group and Krapkowice brass band."

Dożynki Miejsko-Gminne Gminy Krapkowice w Kórnicy

"A sołectwo-level harvest Sunday in the village of Schodnia (gmina Ozimek), where the local community organises its own harvest Mass and wreath procession through village streets independently of the gmina-wide dożynki tradition."

Niedziela Dożynkowa w Schodniej

"The district harvest festival for Żnin County held on the market square in Barcin, with an outdoor field mass, the traditional obrzęd dożynkowy ceremony, wreath competition and an evening folk dance."

Dożynki Powiatowe w Barcinie

"Rypin was announced as the 2026 host of the Kuyavia-Pomerania provincial harvest festival at the close of the 2025 event in Bydgoszcz, bringing the region-wide wreath competition, folk parade and open-air concert to this small market town."

Dożynki Wojewódzkie 2026 w Rypinie

"The Gmina Kłodawa harvest festival held in the village of Różanki, a genuine village dożynki where farming families from across the commune gather for the wreath procession, mass and shared harvest supper."

Dożynki Gminne w Różankach

"Thousands of dumplings crafted by village Koła Gospodyń Wiejskich vanish in minutes at this gleeful pierogi festival beside the atmospheric stone retaining wall in the village of Bobrza."

Święto Pieroga Świętokrzyskiego w Bobrzy

"The regional harvest thanksgiving for all of Lublin Voivodeship brings competing harvest-wreath processions from every gmina, folk song ensembles, a farm-machinery park and regional food stalls to the grass airfield at Świdnik."

Dożynki Wojewódzkie Lubelszczyzny 2026

"A riverside village near Nowy Sącz hosts this intimate three-day festival dedicated to Balkan and Pannonian folk music, drawing ensembles from across the Carpathian arc to perform in a meadow setting."

Pannonica Folk Festival

"A unique Opole Silesian double celebration combining the gmina dożynki harvest procession with the Dzien Wina wine day at Dworek Komorno, where local vintners and Silesian folk ensembles share the same field."

Dożynki Gminy Reńska Wieś i Dzień Wina w Komornie

"The commune of Sępólno Krajeńskie gathers in the small village of Lutówko for its harvest feast, where elected starostas present the harvest loaf in a ceremony rooted in Krajna-region folk tradition."

Dożynki Gminne w Lutówku

"The Łabiszyn commune harvest festival, held at the village hall in Smogorzewo on the River Noteć plain, honours local farmers with awards, folk ensembles and the shared harvest bread."

Dożynki Gminne w Smogorzewie

"Foothills winemakers and beekeepers from across the Pogórze region gather in this small Tarnów-district village to pour, taste and compete, showcasing a little-known wine and honey culture on the southern slopes above the Dunajec."

Pogórzańskie Święto Wina i Miodu

"The annual gmina-and-parish harvest festival of Gmina Dąbrowa held in the village of Ciepielowice, with a harvest-wreath procession, brass band, Koło Gospodyń Wiejskich presentations, and an evening community dance."

Dożynki Gminno-Parafialne Gminy Dąbrowa w Ciepielowicach

"The joint gmina and powiat harvest festival for Kluczbork, held in the village of Maciejowice beside its famous model apiary, featuring an ecumenical thanksgiving service, harvest-crown competition, regional food market, and evening concert."

Dożynki Gminno-Powiatowe gminy i powiatu Kluczbork w Maciejowicach

"The gmina harvest festival of Strzelce Opolskie, traditionally held in Błotnica Strzelecka, combines a harvest Mass and village procession with a Zlot Starych Pojazdów vintage vehicle rally for a uniquely Silesian double celebration."

Dożynki Gminne Gminy Strzelce Opolskie w Błotnicy Strzeleckiej

"Gmina Prudnik's harvest festival in the village of Łąka Prudnicka, with a harvest-wreath procession from the church to the sports field, folk dance ensembles, and the Rudziczka brass band playing traditional harvest music."

Dożynki Gminy Prudnik w Łące Prudnickiej

"The joint powiat and gmina harvest festival of the Głubczyce district hosted in the small village of Rozumice, featuring school performers, local vocal artists, and an evening concert with a brass band finale."

Dożynki Powiatowo-Gminne powiatu głubczyckiego i gminy Kietrz w Rozumicach

"Gmina Olesno's harvest festival in the village of Bodzanowice, with a parish thanksgiving Mass, harvest-crown competition between sołectwa, and a Silesian-humour biesiada concert showcasing folk song and regional comedy."

Dożynki Gminy Olesno w Bodzanowicach

"The district harvest festival for the Czarnków-Trzcianka area, staged in the village of Gębice with the traditional dożynki wreath competition and folk entertainment under the patronage of the Greater Poland Marshal."

Dożynki Powiatowo-Gminne w Gębicach

"Formally designated at the 2025 Żnin commune harvest festival as the 2026 host village, Brzyskorzystewko will stage the Gmina Żnin dożynki with its wreath parade and award of the St Florian medals to outstanding local farmers."

Dożynki Gminne w Brzyskorzystewku

"Village harvest feast in Mnichowice in the Kępno district, part of the Greater Poland regional dożynki cycle, combining traditional harvest rites with a main-stage concert and wreath-weaving displays."

Święto Plonów w Mnichowicach

"Four days of kalwaria observances at the Heart of Silesia's pilgrimage landscape, tracing the full Way of the Cross through 30 hilltop chapels for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross feast."

Odpust Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego (obchody kalwaryjskie)

"The Pomeranian Provincial Harvest Festival fills Sztum's town park with the region's most elaborate harvest wreaths, folk processions, agricultural displays and a congress of rural Pomeranian communities."

Dożynki Województwa Pomorskiego

"This beloved potato-roasting festival in a Gmina Leżajsk village celebrates the potato harvest with communal bonfires, whole-roasted spuds, regional side dishes and folk entertainment for the entire village."

Pieczony Ziemniak

"The gmina harvest festival of Tarnów Opolski, personally invited by the wójt for 2026, with a traditional bread-handover ceremony between starostas and the gmina head, harvest-crown judging, and a sołectwo tournament."

Dożynki Gminne 2026 w Tarnowie Opolskim

"The harvest celebration for the Konin district village of Rzgów, closing the Greater Poland regional dożynki season with the ritual presentation of the harvest wreath to the Marshal of the Voivodeship."

Dożynki Gminne w Rzgowie

"The diocesan harvest thanksgiving Mass celebrated at the Lourdes Grotto of Silesia's premier pilgrimage sanctuary, where farming communities from across the Opole diocese bring harvest wreaths and give thanks for the year's crops."

Dożynki Diecezjalne

"A beloved annual outdoor food and folk festival at the Podlaskie Museum of Folk Culture celebrating regional culinary traditions, craft producers and folkloric performance from across the multicultural borderlands."

Smaki Podlasia

"A week of late-summer countryside activities for families at the Podlaskie open-air folk museum, with traditional crafts, harvest customs and storytelling set among thatched farmsteads in the autumn landscape."

Babie lato w skansenie

"An old Michaelmas-tide village market on the banks of the San, revived as a cultural jarmark with folk craft stalls, local food, music and dance performances celebrating the agricultural calendar of this Podkarpackie riverside commune."

Jarmark Kulturalny "Na Michała"

"A spirited vintage-tractor rally through the rural lanes and farmland of Gmina Radziłów, celebrating working village life with a cavalcade of historic agricultural machines and countryside scenery."

Traktoriada, Rajd Wiejską Scenerią

"A harvest-season cabbage fair rooted in the agricultural customs of this Gmina Leżajsk village, where producers display and sell the crop that once defined the local economy, alongside traditional sauerkraut-making demonstrations."

Kapuściany Jarmark

"The patron feast of the Komprachcice village parish, with traditional Silesian odpust customs including a solemn outdoor procession, parish brass band, and fairground stalls selling traditional sweets."

Odpust Parafialny ku czci św. Franciszka z Asyżu w Komprachcicach

"A two-day autumn horticultural show at the Podlaskie Agricultural Advisory Centre in Szepietowo, combining an orchard and garden fair with the regional competition between rural women's circles from across Podlaskie."

Targi Ogrodnicze "Jesień w sadzie i ogrodzie" z Podlaskim Turniejem Kół Gospodyń Wiejskich

"A village odpust honouring Silesia's own patron saint, St Hedwig, in a small village in the Prudnik district where the feast brings the community together for a solemn Mass and traditional afternoon celebrations."

Odpust Parafialny ku czci św. Jadwigi Śląskiej w Prądach

"Held every Palm Sunday since 1958, this competition draws dozens of makers who raise hand-crafted willow-and-paper palms reaching up to 38 metres into the village square, competing for the title of Poland's tallest Easter palm."

Konkurs Lipnickich Palm

"Running since 1958, this Palm Sunday competition judged by ethnographers assesses handmade palms across three categories including traditional, contemporary and most beautiful, keeping alive a craft tradition rooted in Małopolska village life."

Konkurs Palm Wielkanocnych w Rabce-Zdroju

"On Palm Sunday morning the whole community of Tymbark gathers in the village square to display and judge handmade traditional Easter palms, before a procession moves to the church for solemn mass."

Konkurs Palm Wielkanocnych w Tymbarku

"At this village near Myślenice, Palm Sunday is marked by a palm competition followed by a rare medieval procession with a carved figure of Christ riding a donkey, a Christus-auf-dem-Palmesel custom that survives in only a handful of Polish villages."

Niedziela Palmowa w Tokarni

"The Mazovian open-air museum in Sierpc stages its annual Palm Sunday in the Skansen, combining a solemn mass in an 18th-century wooden church with a public palm-making competition, folk craft fair, and performances of Mazovian Easter customs."

Niedziela Palmowa w Skansenie w Sierpcu

"Villagers have laid a UNESCO-listed kilometre-long flower carpet of fresh petals, mosses and grain along the Corpus Christi procession route for over 200 years, making this small Łódź-province hamlet the most visually stunning religious folk custom in Poland."

Spycimierskie Boże Ciało

"One of four Opole villages that together with Spycimierz earned UNESCO recognition for the Corpus Christi flower-carpet tradition, Klucz lines its procession route with elaborate living carpets of garden and wildflowers each year."

Dywan kwiatowy na Boże Ciało w Kluczu

"Olszowa is one of the four Silesian villages that share the UNESCO-inscribed tradition of creating intricate floral carpet mosaics along the Corpus Christi procession route every year."

Dywan kwiatowy na Boże Ciało w Olszowej

"Zalesie Śląskie participates in the UNESCO-listed Opole flower-carpet tradition, where residents create elaborate living mosaics of petals, mosses and leaves to line the Corpus Christi procession path."

Dywan kwiatowy na Boże Ciało w Zalesiu Slaskim

"Zimna Wódka is the fourth of the Opole villages holding UNESCO recognition for the living flower-carpet Corpus Christi procession, a tradition shared by the parish community every June."

Dywan kwiatowy na Boże Ciało w Zimnej Wodce

"Łowicz is famous across Poland for its Corpus Christi procession in which hundreds of parishioners march in the region's spectacular striped folk costumes, making it the most colourful display of Mazovian folk dress in the annual calendar."

Procesja Bożego Ciała w Łowiczu

"A deeply rooted Slavic midsummer festival on the beach of Lake Skolity in the village of Skolity, combining wreath-floating, bonfires, live folk and world music, and Kupala Night ceremonies in a lakeside forest setting."

Skolicka Noc Kupały

"An annual international folk music festival held in the small Masurian town of Biała Piska, celebrating the cultural crossroads of the region by bringing together folk ensembles from across Europe and beyond."

Mazurski Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Folku Na styku Kultur

"A long-running international series of organ and chamber music concerts held in the small village of Dźwierzuty, now in its 29th edition, making use of the area's historic church acoustics near Pasym."

Miedzynarodowe Pasymskie Koncerty Muzyki Organowej i Kameralnej

"Rival KGW circles from across Gmina Limanowa compete at outdoor stalls piled with traditional highland breads, smoked cheeses and hand-embroidered textiles in front of local judges and a village crowd."

27. Gminny Przegląd Dorobku Artystycznego i Kulinarnego Kół Gospodyń Wiejskich

"A traditional Silesian village odpust with solemn parish Mass, stalls, fairground rides, and the characteristic afternoon nieszpory procession typical of Upper Silesian odpust culture."

Odpust Parafialny ku czci Matki Bożej Szkaplerznej w Chrząszczycach

"A summer historical festival held in the village of Chełm Górny near Trzcińsko-Zdrój, bringing the past to life with period displays and local community celebrations in the West Pomeranian countryside."

Festyn Historyczny w Chełmie Górnym