The word ‘bugle’ (Polish hejnał) comes from Hungarian where it means ‘dawn’, ‘morning’, ‘sunrise’. In Polish it means ‘a wakeup call’, ‘an hourly chime’. The bugle call became common in the early medieval times and was used by the military and then by the city security. Today, the bugles are played only to maintain tradition and city’s prestige. The most famous one is the Kraków bugle played every hour from the tower of Our Lady’s Basilica and broadcast by the Polish radio at midday. Other places have their own bugles, for instance Poznań, Lublin, Łódź, Płock, Jasna Góra, Warsaw, together with smaller towns like Krasnystaw, Kępno, Ostrołęka and Skierniewice. Since 1994 Lublin has been hosting the National Bugle Review. Last year, it was attended by 25 cities.