149. Milieu

From, “Poland's Nobel Poet Szymborska Dies at 88,” 2/1/12, The Wall Street Journal:

Ms. Szymborska was born in the village of Bnin, now part of Kornik, near Poznan in western Poland on July 2, 1923. Eight years later she moved with her parents to Krakow, and developed deep ties to the medieval city, with its rich artistic and intellectual milieu. She lived there until her death.

Milieu: the physical or social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops