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Old Market Square in Poznań
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A square with sides of **141 m**, laid out around 1253 — the third largest market square in Poland, after Kraków and Wrocław. At its centre stands the Renaissance town hall, and on its little tower **the billy goats emerge every day at 12:…
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Poznań Fara
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**Poznań Fara**, the collegiate church and basilica on Gołębia Street, is one of Poland’s most important Baroque monuments. Its full dedication is to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Mary Magdalene and St Stanislaus. A few steps from the Old…
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Royal Castle in Poznań
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On Przemysł Hill, just behind Poznań’s Old Market square, stands the oldest surviving royal residence in Poland. The Royal Castle was built in the **13th century** as a residential tower for Przemysł I; it was expanded by his son **Przemys…
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Poznań Cathedral
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**Poznań Cathedral** on Cathedral Island is Poland’s oldest cathedral and a place connected with the beginnings of the Polish state. The first Polish bishopric was established here in 968, and the island became a centre of power for the ea…
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Enigma Cipher Centre
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The Enigma Cipher Centre at 78 Święty Marcin Street tells the Poznań story behind the breaking of the Enigma cipher. Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki studied cryptology here. The multimedia exhibitio…
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Genius Loci Archaeological Reserve in Poznań
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Under a shelter on the cathedral island of Ostrów Tumski in Poznań, right beside the cathedral, you can see the original cross-section of a **10th-century stronghold rampart** built in the times of Mieszko I. This is the Genius Loci Archae…
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Imperial Castle in Poznań
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The Imperial Castle in Poznań is one of the youngest castles in Europe — and its story is full of paradoxes. Built in **1905–1910** for **Wilhelm II**, the last German emperor, to a design by **Franz Schwechten** shaped by the Kaiser's own…
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Katedralna Lock in Poznań
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Katedralna Lock, also known as Dom Schleuse, is a historic part of the 19th-century Poznań Fortress on the Cybina River. The building stands beside Cathedral Island, and a glass footbridge connects it with the Porta Posnania heritage centr…
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Brama Poznania ICHOT
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Porta Posnania ICHOT is a heritage interpretation centre rather than a museum with a traditional collection. Its multimedia exhibition explores more than a thousand years of Ostrów Tumski — the island central to Poznań's beginnings and the…