Poland celebrates Flag Day
PR dla Zagranicy
Julian Horodyski
02.05.2019 13:30
Poles across the country hang out the national red-and-white colours as Poland marks Flag Day on Thursday.
Photo: pexels.com CC0
A flag was raised on the clock tower of the Royal Castle in the Polish capital in a ceremony attended by President Andrzej Duda and the First Lady, Agata Kornhauser-Duda.
After the ceremony, the presidential couple handed out red-and-white flags to Warsaw residents.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called hanging out the flag on May 2 "a symbol of great importance."
"We show our attachment and respect towards Poland," he wrote on Twitter.
Flag Day is a new tradition in Poland -- it was established in 2004.
May 2 is also the Day of Poles Abroad.
Meanwhile, on May 3 Poland marks Constitution Day, recalling country’s landmark progressive constitution passed on 3 May 1791.
(jh/pk)
Source: PAP