Curiosities

A full-scale replica of the Santa Maria, the ship on which Columbus sailed to America, is on display at the […]

When Napoleon’s troops stopped to rest in Gąsawa, they asked their hostess to brew them some coffee. The landlady, who […]

The earliest mention of artillery deployment in Poland is to be found in the Chronicle of Jan of Czarnków in […]

The Enigma code was broken by three mathematics students from the University of Poznań – Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and […]

Nawojka, the first female student at Jagiellonian University (albeit disguised as a man), came from Gniezno. Shortly after her appointment […]

The Sejm held a special sitting in the Lecture Theatre of the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State […]

Europe’s largest bat colony (about 20,000) can be found in the Nietoperek Reserve, created in the vaults of the Międzyrzecz […]

The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń broke several nationwide records when it was built. It is the largest church […]

Międzyrzecz has Poland's largest collection of coffin portraits. These were an important part of Polish funeral customs during the baroque […]

The General National Exhibition, held in Poznań in 1929, was the largest trade fair in Polish history, drawing 4.5 million […]

The Poznań Palm House is the largest facility of its type in Poland and the fifth largest in Europe.

Lake Jeziorsko is Poland’s largest reservoir in terms of surface area. It was built on the Warta River, north-east of […]

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