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Historic Sites Attractions In Central Poland

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Statistics Poland is Poland's chief government executive agency charged with collecting and publishing statistics related to the country's economy, population, and society, at the national and local levels. The president of Statistics Poland reports directly to the Prime Minister of Poland and is considered the equivalent of a Polish government minister. The agency was established in 1918 by Ludwik Krzywicki, one of the most notable sociologists of his time. Inactive during World War II, GUS was reorganized in 1945. The office is divided into several separate branches, each responsible for a different set of data. The branches include the Divisions of ...
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Historic Sites Attractions In Central Poland

  • 1. Sandomierz Market Square (Rynek) Sandomierz
    Sandomierz is a town in south-eastern Poland with 25,714 inhabitants , situated in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship . It is the capital of Sandomierz County . Sandomierz is known for its Old Town, which is a major tourist attraction. In the past, Sandomierz used to be one of the most important urban centers not only of Lesser Poland, but also of the whole country.
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  • 3. The Leaning Tower Torun
    The Museum of the Second World War is a state cultural institution established in 2008 and a museum in Gdańsk, Poland which is devoted to the Second World War. The museum was opened on 23 March 2017. Kwadrat architectural team won the architectural competition for the building of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk.
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  • 5. Town Hall Sandomierz Sandomierz
    Sandomierz Town Hall – a building raised shortly after the Lithuanian Invasion in 1349. Formerly Gothic, the town hall had a octagonal tower. The southern side , being the oldest was built at the turning point of the fourteenth and fifteenth-century. In the sixteenth century, the building was expanded, in the form of an extended rectangular structure, which was then top outed with an attic tripartite, constructed by Italian sculptor Jan Maria Padovano. The corners of the attic are decorated with heads represented the four estates of the realm. The tower was built in the seventeenth-century.The southern side of the town hall has a sundial made using the sgraffito technique, by Tadeusz Przypkowski , who was the former owner of the Przypkowscy Clock Museum in Jędrzejów. From the east-side...
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  • 7. Bydgoszcz Death Valley Bydgoszcz
    Valley of Death in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II; and a mass grave of 1,200 – 1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo. The murders were a part of Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania, a Nazi action aimed at the elimination of the Polish intelligentsia in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, which included the former Pomeranian Voivodeship . It was part of a larger genocidal action that took place in all German occupied Poland, code-named Operation Tannenberg.
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  • 9. Warsaw Barbican (Barbakan Warszawski) Warsaw
    The Warsaw Barbican is a barbican in Warsaw, Poland, and one of few remaining relics of the complex network of historic fortifications that once encircled Warsaw. Located between the Old and New Towns, it is a major tourist attraction.
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  • 11. Church of St. Wojciech Kielce
    A pilgrimage church is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims. Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves of saints, or hold portraits to which miraculous properties are ascribed or saintly relics that are safeguarded by the church for their veneration. Such relics may include the bones, books or pieces of clothing of the saints, occasionally also fragments of the cross of Jesus, pieces of the crown of thorns, the nails with which he was fixed to the cross and other similar objects. Pilgrimage churches were also built at places where miracles took place.
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