The Mazowieckie Province is the economic leader among Poland’s regions. It is the largest and the most populous province whose centre is the Polish capital Warsaw. Owing to the rapid growth of its economy and its well developed higher education system the region is the country’s largest labour market.

More than 400 years ago, chancellor Jan Zamoyski began erecting Zamość, an ideal city-fortress. Designed and built by Italian architect Bernardo Morando, it was located at the crossroads of commercial routes running from northern to southern Europe and from Asia to western Europe. The location of Zamość at this particular point prompted its dynamic growth and development over the years to come.

Polkowice is an unusual town where the impossible becomes possible. Is there another way to comment on the fact that this small mining commune has entered the race for the title of Poland’s eco energy centre and won it?

LIM Center is one of the highest buildings in Warsaw. It houses a five-star hotel, Warsaw Marriott, with modern conference facilities and elegant restaurants, as well as A-class office space.

For the second time running Kujawsko-Pomorskie province took part in the Expo Real 2009 International Commercial Property Exhibition in Munich. The region’s most attractive investment openings were presented jointly by the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Investor Assistance Centre, an arm of the Province Chairman’s Office, and officials from commercial units in the town councils of Kujawsko-Pomorskie’s four main cities – Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Grudziądz and Włocławek.

With a population of nearly 180,000 residents located in the north-east of Poland, Olsztyn is the capital of Warmia and Masuria Province, a land of a thousand lakes. The city where the famous Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus lived and worked, is half way between Warsaw (220m) and Gdańsk (180 km).

Częstochowa is a city with the highest development potential in Poland. It is located in the pan-European North-South transport corridor, near two international airports, has a rich infrastructure, very well educated personnel, high level of public services and is close to Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska limestone hills, one of the most picturesque areas in Europe.

Poland’s Silesia industrial basin began to experience troubles in the early 1990s. Dominated by raw-material-based heavy industry, the region now had to close down plants which had lost their markets, the effect of which was soaring unemployment. One of the tools with which Silesia hoped to speed up reforms was the Katowice Special Economic Zone (Katowicka Specjalna Strefa Ekonomiczna, KSSE).