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June 15 - August 15, 2014 Issue No. 09

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Casa de Vinos Wine Bar and Shop

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Mini Cars

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Spinoza Eyewear

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Muga Restaurant European

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Konfitura

Cafe & Restaurant

Cuba Libre Latin Dance Club Latin Inspired Bar

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Poland’s Good Taste Festival Food Festival

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Transatlantyk Film & Music Festival

VOYAGER WineClub Wine Bar and Shop

Scarpabella

Exclusive Footwear

Ratuszova Polish

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Bernardino Ristorante

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Blueberry Bar

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Italian

Bar & Club

Punkt Sporny Club & Restaurant

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Aesthetic Med Beauty Clinic

Malta Festival Cultural Festival

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Petit Paris

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Autodirect

Lunch, Cafe, Vin Online Car Purchasing

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Enter Music Festival

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Cultural Interest

Jazz Music Festival

Malta, Teatr Wielki, Stary Rynek

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City Map with Above Locations

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Triwa

Watches, Shades

Top Spots

CASA DE VINOS

Casa de Vinos Krysiewicza 5, Poznan phone: +48 61 815 28 26 www.casadevinos.pl

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Casa de Vinos offers selections from the wine producing centers of the world, all revealing their hidden bouquets, with each sip conveying the wine’s history and perhaps about its origins. Discovering wine is an art, yet its appreciation is an individual experience; not surprisingly the place has a selection of over 250 labels hailing from multiple continents! Casa de Vino’s experienced sommeliers will help one choose from the shelves here where exotic and exclusive brands are neighbors to the more common ones. This spectrum of choice and advice even for the most demanding, quality-oriented connoisseurs is surely valuable. For those interested in gaining “wine knowledge” there are wine tastings as well as professional training programs organized here! With Italian specialties, gift packs, wine accessories, and an online store, Casa de Vinos is indeed a complete wine resource!

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KONFITURA RESTAURANT

Konfitura is located on the first floor of Gallery MM, offers far more than coffee and dessert in an interior space that is pleasant, bright and with a partially open kitchen that enables one to become an intrinsic part of the place itself. The place is a reflection of the owner’s passion to cook as well as to eat, with all dishes prepared from scratch and of course using only the freshest of ingredients. The menu offers breakfast served all day, with lunch and dinner with wholesome items such as a spectrum of mouth watering burgers with fries, Polish dumplings (pierogi), soups, a selection of tarts, cakes, home-made desserts, and with fresh juice giving healthy accompaniment to food and conversation.

The place is refreshingly simple, healthful, and always proves to be a great choice for a great meal right in the heart of the city!

Konfitura Restaurant Św. Marcin 24, Poznań Galeria MM, 1st floor phone: +48 504 333 223 www.konfitura-poznan.pl

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POLAND’S GOOD TASTE FESTIVAL

Ogólnopolski Festiwal Dobrego Smaku, or Poland’s Good Taste Festival, is an annual four-day food and drink celebration taking place at Poznan’s Old Market Square between August 14 -17. Several vendors from across Poland offer local cheese, breads, ham, sausages, honey, beer, and other delicacies. Fine food, wines and spirits form many other counties including Spain, Italy, Germany, Lithuania, and Hungary can also be sampled and purchased here.

Live cooking shows, concerts, tastings and workshops for children and adults accompany the event. A grilled “kielbasa” in one hand and a glass of local beer is a sight encouraged here; of course instead of beer it could be Hungarian wine or fresh squeezed apple juice! The Market Square becomes an important music destination as well with plenty of live jazz, classical and folk music which celebrates life, and good food!

August 14 - 17, 2014

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VOYAGER WINECLUB

If an Intimate wine-bar and wine shop is what one is seeking, then the VOYAGER Wine Club is one clear-cut choice. Here the classical wine shop amalgamates with a trendy wine bar, one of the few places in Poznan that is truly one of its kind. For the last few years the place has specialized in importing directly from carefully selected wineries from around the world with over 200 names of wines and spirits which are not available elsewhere in Poland!

Any wine tried and loved here can be purchased at the shop, or ordered over the website. The place serves a good array of snacks as well making sitting with a good bottle of wine even more complete! For those seeking privacy there is an elegant VIP room making this indeed a lovely place, great for a quick drink or snack with business colleagues, friends, and family.

VOYAGER WineClub Al. Karola Marcinkowskiego 16/5, Poznań Mosaiq Restaurant phone: +48 612 225 999 Wroclaw, Świętego Mikołaja 12 winebar@axpol.com.pl phone: +48 71 798 3511 www.voyagerwineclub.pl www.mosaiq.pl

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LUXURY SHOES & ACCESSORIES

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PUNKT SPORNY CLUB & RESTAURANT

Punkt Sporny located in the Main Square is an interesting, elegant place where excellent food meets good music. With the idea of “fusion” permeating the culinary landscape globally, this place serves up its own interpretation of what needs to be fused with what to provide something outstanding. One finds varied flavors here from around Europe packaged by Chef Dominik Sydow in delicacies such as lamb chops with mint and sage dip; duck breast served with caramelized cherries; and the succulent beef steak in Porto. The desserts here stand far above the crowd, artistically prepared by pastry chef Leszek Hajcel who works his magic through items such as the chocolate souffle or the raspberry tart! In the evenings Punkt Sporny transforms into a music club fetauring local DJ’s as well as live music. An ideal place for a memorable time out with friends, family, and business colleagues!

Punkt Sporny Stary Rynek 27, Poznan phone: +48 607 607 480 + 48 618 501 434 www.facebook/punktsporny.com

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MALTA FESTIVAL

09 29 06 2014 Malta Festival Poznań 2014 (9-29th June) will focus its attention on contemporary Latin America which remains poorly represented in European public and cultural life. The curator of the festival’s main thematic section – the Idiom: Latin America: Mestizos is Rodrigo García, one of the most distinctive and bold artists in contemporary theatre. The program will include artists of different generations, who grew up surrounded by social, historical, cultural and geographical paradoxes, uncompromising creators with clearly defined political beliefs, employing distinctive aesthetics. The Festival will also present two shows, by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker – one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance, and a concert by Damon Albarn-- singer of the legendary band Blur and co-founder of Gorillaz. For program details, please visit our website www.malta-festival.pl.

Malta Festival June 9 - 29, 2014

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AUTODIRECT CAR PURCHASE Buy Cars The New, Efficient Way Finally, the cutting edge way to purchase cars, both brand new and pre-owned, has finally arrived in Poland with the recent launch of Autodirect’s new web portal, www.autosalon24.pl. Prospective car buyers in the country now virtually have the best of the entire Polish car market on their desktop. Says CEO, Mr. Grzegorz Kwiatkowski “This business model has been successfully implemented in Western Europe. In countries such as Spain or France almost 15% of cars are purchased in this way.”

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Finally, the cutting edge way to purchase cars, both brand new and pre-owned, has finally arrived in Poland with the recent launch of Autodirect’s new web portal, www.autosalon24.pl.

Prospective car buyers in the country now virtually have the best of the entire Polish car market on their desktop. Says CEO, Mr. Łukasz Gębski “This business model has been successfully implemented in Western Europe. In countries such as Spain or France almost 15% of cars are purchased in this way.”

Autodirect SA Al. Jerozolimskie 133, 16th floor Warsaw 02-304 www.autosalon24.pl

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Autosalon24.pl offers tremendous advantages over conventional ways of buying cars, which include: • Significantly better price with dealerships competing to provide the highest discount in order to make the sale; • Clean, transparent, and secure business practices—cars are provided by official authorized car dealerships only with bank payments made directly to the dealer’s bank account; • The widest possible choice between virtually all brands of cars and motorbikes; • One stop shopping for financing, (credit, leasing) and insurance, and professional advice by autosalon24.pl consultants in identifying what’s most suitable; • Customized requirements delivered to the doorstep such as winter tires, baby seats, individual leather interior, and auto spa treatments such as scratch-proofing; • And finally lots of time saved which is perhaps the most important factor today.

On occasion an identified vehicle with the best deal may in fact be available at a dealership in a distant town. In these cases autosalon24.pl would be delighted in making travel arrangements to get one there to take delivery of one’s new car, always a thrilling experience made better perhaps with a sightseeing holiday in a different city! With almost every car and model, along with a good choice of motorbikes autosalon24.pl is indeed the place to purchase a new or pre-owned vehicle. The best possible price and service is indeed just a few computer clicks with no running around and wasting time.

Thank you autosalon24.pl!

ENTER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014

17-18 June, 2014

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Enter Music Festival 2014 The 4th edition of Enter Music Festival will be held here over two days, June 17 and 18, celebrating jazz and all of the attitudes that go with this vast music genre. The festival director is a name that needs no introduction, pianist Leszek Mozdzer.

ENTER means action, change, a step forward, progress, and this precisely is the nature of this music festival held annually against the background of Lake Strzeszyńskie presenting the top jazz musicians of today to meet on one stage.

The festival presents a panorama of music energy that oscillates stylistically around jazz, perfectly suited for a less formal, open-air ambience with all of the artists sharing their most creative endeavors.

Enter Music Festival reinforces the message that jazz offers freshness and dynamism, a music space which calls for continuous action and a constant discovery of new paths.

CULTURAL INTEREST Malta

Malta

The area around Lake Malta, due to a very favorable, picturesque location, has been very well developed with an infrastructure which makes it the ideal place to spend leisure time in and host a variety of events. The spectrum of activities here range from picnics, social events, to all manners of recreation and sports.

Varied cultural events are organized in this remarkable setting throughout the year as well, significantly enriching the cultural fabric of Poznan.

Malta Wiankowa 3, Poznan

Teatr Wielki

Teatr Wielki

Poznan’s Teatr Wielki, or The Great Theater, is a neoclassical building designed by famous German architect Max Littmann (1862-1931). Flanked by six massive columns, its facade is headed by a triangular jerkin-head topped with a sculpture of Pegasus. The theater offers seating for 900. The opera house was first opened in 1910 for a premiere performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Today, this is one of Poland’s most famous and revered opera venues with a rich tradition and history.

Stary Rynek

Stary Rynek

Poznan’s Old Market Square has as its dominant building the Renaissance Town Hall, with tenement houses lining the square constructed in Baroque and Renaissance styles. Next to the Town Hall are the so called Vendor Houses featuring characteristic arcades. Other features include the Proserpine Fountain, the fountains of Apollo, Neptune and Mars, a Baroque figure of St. John of Pomuc, and many other elements of cultural interest.

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