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Festivals, entertainment and sports
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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 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. Other useful information
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