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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Aitken

Pole to Pole: 10 brilliant things to do in Poland

Poznań's Renaissance old town is one of the best preserved in Poland.
Poznań's Renaissance old town is one of the best preserved in Poland. Photograph: Boris Stroujko/Alamy

Poznań

I have a massive soft spot for Poznań, not least because I used to work in a fish and chip shop in the city. Poznań’s virtues include its vibrant old town; its lakes; its dancing goats (two mechanical billies make an appearance daily at noon atop the town hall, butting heads 12 times to mark the time); its Rogalowe (croissant) Museum (the city’s sweet treat is the St Martin’s croissant, filled with white poppy seeds); and the Enigma Cipher Centre (which sheds light on the vital role Polish codebreakers played in hampering the Nazis).

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