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骋诲补艅蝉办 & Pomerania
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Overview
Cream-hued beaches shelving smoothly into the nippy Baltic Sea, wind-crafted dunes vivid against leaden skies, stern red-brick churches and castles erected by a medieval order of pious knights, and silenced shipyards that once seethed with anti-communist tumult 鈥 this is Pomerania, Poland鈥檚 north, a land with many faces.
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Must-see attractions
骋诲补艅蝉办 & Pomerania
Malbork鈥檚 blockbuster attraction is its show-stoppingly massive castle sitting on the banks of the sluggish Nogat River, an eastern arm of the Vistula鈥
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Opened in 2016, this striking piece of modern architecture is a bold addition to the northern end of 骋诲补艅蝉办's waterfront. It has rapidly become one of鈥
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Opened in 2014, and housed in a truly awful example of 21st-century architecture (its rusty steel plates were designed to evoke ships under construction),鈥
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D艂ugi Targ was once the main city market and is now the major focus for visitors. Things have gotten a bit touristy here over the last decade (dubious鈥
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Dominating the heart of the Old Town, St Mary鈥檚 is often cited as the largest brick church in the world, its massive 78m-high tower dominating the 骋诲补艅蝉办鈥
Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes
Szczecin
This castle is the mother of all Szczecin monuments. This vast, blocky building looms over the Old Town, but the square central courtyard and simple鈥
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Opened in 2019 in the renovated White Granary building, the 250-piece collection of portraits by Stanis艂aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885鈥1939), aka Witkacy, are鈥
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One of Poland's best beaches, this stretch of sand curves gently along the coast and is backed by out-of-bounds, protected dunes. So high is the sand鈥
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