🏛️ Medieval Town of Toruń

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Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921–1945). Since 1999, Toruń has been a seat of the local government of the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship and is one of its two capitals, together with Bydgoszcz. The cities and neighboring counties form the Bydgoszcz–Toruń twin city metropolitan area.

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Medieval Town of Toruń is a cultural World Heritage site in Poland, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Medieval Town of Toruń was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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