I mention Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Krakow, and he smiles. “Well,” he says. “Lodz is different.” He mentions the lack of an old town or clearly designated city centre, and I momentarily ...

The Bible, on display at the Medieval Art Gallery in Warsaw, was printed more than 570 years ago by Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. It is one of the few preserved copies in ...