One of Europe’s most prestigious cultural routes is expanding in Poland. The Historic Cafes Route, one of 49 cultural routes operating under the High Patronage of the Council of Europe.
The decision to extend the Historic Cafes Route was taken by the President of the Route, Arnold Gunter Klingeis. He is the first Romanian citizen to be elected president of a European cultural route.
He has nominated Wroclaw entrepreneur Jan Lech Skowera as ambassador of the Golden Café Route. He is president of the Polish Catholic Entrepreneurs’ Club and also a Grand Master of the Order of the Polish Crown.
The nomination ceremony took place during the Royal Forum Silesia, organized in the presence of HRH Prince Radu of Romania, in the conference hall of the John Paul II Hotel in Wroclaw.
The new Historic Cafes Route ambassador for Poland, Jan Lech Skowera, was born in 1952 in Wrocław and graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Wrocław University of Technology in 1971.
He was an activist of the Polish Catholic Socialist Socialist Union, a member of the Solidarity Movement and opposition movements, co-founder of the Democratic Youth Union, banned by the Polish communist authorities in the second half of the 1980s. He collaborated with the Polish government in exile in London.
Jan Lech Skowera was a participant in the historic meeting of monarchists in Stará Ľubovňa in 2006, which gave birth to the Spiš Confederation. Member of the leadership of the Confederation as Chancellor and then Marshal. He is also the initiator of the establishment of the Polish Crown Foundation, the Royal Academy of Business and Diplomacy and the Knightly Order of the Polish Crown of St. Casimir the Prince. In 2018, from the hands of His Excellency Archbishop Józef Kupny Józef Kupny, he received the act of appointment as Grand Master of the Order.
The new Historic Cafes Rute ambassador will start his work with the inclusion in the cultural circuit of such sights as castles and royal or aristocratic palaces and castles in Poland where historic cafes, restaurants and hotels now operate. Among them are castles such as Zbozenna or Sierakow, where Jan Lech Skowera has organized numerous cultural events in recent years. Together with the technical team of the Route of Historic Cafés in Europe, Jan Lech Skowera wants to launch the first tourist program for Poland in the spring of 2025.
