Torun - The most beautiful city in Poland
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2020
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One of the oldest cities in Poland and one with an incredible amount of history, architecture and culture :)
Seat of the Teutonic Knights, purveyor of Gingerbread and full of magic!
Easy to travel to from Warsaw by Train, approx 3 hours and 40Zl each way, perfect for a weekend getaway!
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My city
my city
my city. few more months and coming back after 17 years.... can't wait......
I wonder how much it has changed in this time!
The place felt like it had a timeless quality to me
@@britinpoland2392 i donno. will let you know once im there. btw you more than welcome to pop in in the summer. gonna give you special tour. free of charge ...:)
@@kwiatrus I do need to go back, especially when the gingerbread museum is open again!
Last time with everything locked down I could only get a drink from Zabka hahaha
@@britinpoland2392 i would take you to the place making the best fries in the world. closed now :( but i can show you places...thats my city. you know Copernicus monument? yes you do. i used to live 200m away....:)
Okay, to clarify: the Teutonic Knights were actually brought over to Turon in 1226 by the Polish King Konrad Mazowiecki in order to fight the pagans and Christianise the lands
I literally just learned of this city 15 minutes ago via another video. Amazing! Thanks for your upload.
Well worth the visit this one, still one of my favourite places here!
Thank you for video and you must visit Bielsko Biała, Pszczyna and Gliwice this is best cities in Upper Silesia region ( Województwo Śląskie )
Oh indeed I have a lot of Poland to see yet! Thank you for the recommendations 😊
I’ll be moving to Toruń soon!, thanks so much for this video
it’s a beautiful place! Hope you find that too 😁
Torun is definitely very beautiful !! new subscribers ! ☺️✨
I’m glad you enjoyed the video 😊 and much more beauty in Poland to be discovered!
Pictures do not always match the narrative. Still, it is the most interesting presentation of Torun I have seen so far.
Thank you for the compliment, indeed this was one of my first videos of this kind so I hope I’ve progressed a little since then 😅 but glad you enjoyed 😊
Hey mate :)
Nothing against you, like your video but one little :) correction of your Clarify in comments:
Konrad Mazowiecki was a Duke and High Duke, not a King.
He was from Piast Dynasty, same as all Polish Kings (that will later change).
I live 30 miles from Toruń :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_I_of_Masovia
Thanks for the clarification :)
While visiting Torun/Thorn, one can reflect upon the complexities of the history of Poland. The town, and Prussia where it was located, was initially ethnically German but its inhabitants, strangely enough, opted in the fifteenth century for the incorporation of Prussia into the Polish kingdom. Prussia was subsequently divided into Royal Prussia (Polish) and ducal Prussia (German). Poland at that time was completely different from its current version - in terms of territory, ethnic composition and languages of its population. As the Commonwealth of Both Nations, it was a union of two polities, the Crown (Polish) and Lithuania. In other words it was a federation of two political "nations" inhabited by many ethnic "nations", ie Poles, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Ruthenians (Belarussians and Ukrainians), Armenians, Tatars and Latvians. Now, Poland is monoethnic and monolingual. Its territory is composed in one third of the eastern part of Germany which was ethically cleansed of its inhabitants after the WWII. Poland's eastern part is now in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. Poland's history is difficult to understand not only for foreigners but also for the Poles themselves.
I find the history fascinating, this country has changed so much over the years! As you say it’s had multiple occupancies and populations coming in, and this extends way beyond Toruń! Every city I visit gives me another piece of the puzzle 😊
@@britinpoland2392 Funny enough, there are certain similarities in the history of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Both Nations. Both were initially personal unions which were later integrated into more or less one state, with one language and one parliament. The UK also comprised other nations, namely Wales and Ireland. There were religious differences between them, as in the Commonwealth of Both Nations. Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania are now separate states, like Ireland is already independent from the UK and Scotland may be in the future. Good luck in further exploration of Poland!
You are absolutely right about Polish cities being very different from each other, mainly due to the fact that they were located within three different empires after the partition of Poland, or were entirely outside of Poland (like Szczecin/Stettin). Anyway, Poland exists only because of an extraordinary coincidence that three partitioning empires - Germany, Austria and Russia - collapsed at exactly the same time at the end of the WWI. This is strange indeed!