Festivals, Entertainment and Sports
One manifestation of Poland's intense commitment to Roman Catholicism is that all the great feast days of the Church calendar are celebrated with wholehearted devotion, many of the participants donning the colourful traditional  © 2003 by Rough Guides Ltd. as trustee for its Authors. Published by Rough Guides. All rights reserved. Rough Guides name is a trademark of Rough Guides Ltd. Buy the book here!
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costumes for which the country is celebrated. This is most notable in the mountain areas in the south of the country, where the annual festivities play a key role in maintaining a vital sense of community. As a supplement to these, Poland has many more recently established cultural festivals , particularly in the fields of music and drama. As well as a strong ethnic/folk music scene, contemporary music in Poland is intriguing, if a little inaccessible to outsiders.
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