1000 years of Poland - dispute at the anniversary celebration

A thousand years ago Poland became a kingdom. Now, just before the presidential election, a fierce dispute over the interpretational sovereignty of the coronation act breaks out. Was he a decision for the West or a call to the Germans?

Eight-meter heads of Polish kings will stand by the Vistula River, and the picnic will include a journey through time from the Middle Ages to the future and an F-16 flyover. In the evening, music will resound and the sky will be lit up by drones. This is how the capital will celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the coronation of Chrobry as King of Poland.

On Easter morning in 1025, Gniezno held its breath. In the cathedral, enveloped in the scent of incense and the singing of choirs, an event took place that would change the fate of Polish lands forever. Bolesław, son of Mieszko I, knelt before Archbishop Radzim-Gaudentius. When the holy oils flowed down his temples and his crown shone in the light of candles, Poland was born as a kingdom. A drawing by Jan Matejko from the series Gallery of Polis…

A show of a thousand drones on Sunday evening ended the celebrations in the capital of the 1000th anniversary of the coronation of Bolesław the Brave as King of Poland, which had been going on since the afternoon. That day also saw a concert of Polish songs, a historical march and a flyover of F-16 aircraft over the capital. Thousands of people took advantage of the meeting offer prepared in the capital on the Vistula River, at the Copernicus Sc…

At 2:30 p.m., a flypast of F-16 aircraft prepared by the Polish Armed Forces took place over the participants’ heads.

The tradition of the servile ruler Bolesław the Brave should still be relevant – indicated Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz in Gniezno on April 27. The article by Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz on the 1000th anniversary of the coronation of Bolesław the Brave comes from the website Wszystko co końca.