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St. Mary's Church is a Brick Gothic co-cathedral in Gdańsk's Main Town, begun in 1343 and vaulted by 1502, and one of the largest brick churches ever built. Inside are star and crystal vaults on 26 pillars, a 15th-century astronomical clock whose figures move daily at 11:57, and altars and epitaphs; the 82 m tower has a viewing platform.
Artus Court on the Long Market was built in 1348–1350 as the meeting hall of Gdańsk's merchant brotherhoods and rebuilt after a fire in 1476–1477; its Mannerist façade dates from 1617. The Great Hall has Gothic vaults on slender pillars, ship models, paintings and a 10.64 m tiled stove of 520 tiles. It is a branch of the Museum of Gdańsk.
The Long Market is the broad market street of Gdańsk's Main Town, running from the Main Town Hall to the Green Gate on the Motława as part of the Royal Route. It is lined with rebuilt merchant houses, among them the Golden House and Artus Court; in front of the court stands Neptune's Fountain, a bronze statue cast in 1615 and set up in 1633.
The Museum of the Second World War is a state museum in Gdańsk, established in 2008 and opened in 2017 in a building by the Kwadrat studio, marked by a leaning red tower. Its main exhibition lies underground and follows the war from the 1930s to its aftermath, covering the invasion of Poland, occupation, the Holocaust and civilian life.
The Gdańsk Crane is a 15th-century port crane and city gate on the Motława embankment, built in its present form in 1442–1444 between two brick towers. Men walking inside its large wooden treadwheels lifted cargo and raised ships' masts. Rebuilt after damage in 1945, it is a branch of the National Maritime Museum with an exhibition on the medieval port.
Malbork Castle stands in the town of Malbork, about 40 km south-east of Gdańsk. The Teutonic Order built this brick Gothic fortress as its headquarters between about 1274 and 1406, and it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. Visitors follow the Historical Castle Route through its courtyards, halls and exhibitions.
Fort VII is a 19th-century Prussian fort in Poznań where Nazi Germany opened a concentration camp in October 1939, the first in occupied Poland. The museum counts around 4,500 prisoners who died there. Today the Museum of Martyrdom of the Wielkopolska Region shows the brick casemates, the prisoners' cells and exhibitions on those held here.
The Imperial Castle is a Neo-Romanesque palace completed in 1910 to designs by Franz Schwechten as the Poznań residence of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Today it is home to the Zamek Culture Centre, and visitors tour its historic halls and courtyards with a map or an audio guide.
The Enigma Cipher Centre is an interactive exhibition about the Enigma cipher machine and the Poznań-trained mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki, who broke its cipher in 1932. It stands on the site where they began work for the Polish Cipher Bureau; a visit with the included audio guide takes about two hours.
The National Museum in Poznań shows painting and sculpture in an eclectic building from 1904 on Marcinkowskiego Avenue and a newer wing. Its Gallery of Polish Art includes works by Jacek Malczewski, Stanisław Wyspiański and Jan Matejko.
The Royal Castle stands on Przemysł Hill above the Old Market Square, where Duke Przemysł I began a castle in 1249. Destroyed in 1945, its main building was reconstructed in 2010–2013 and now houses the Museum of Applied Arts, with about 2,000 objects from furniture and glass to arms and dress, and a viewing terrace in the tower.
Poznań Fara is a Baroque church built for the Jesuits between 1651 and 1701 beside their former college in the Old Town; it became a minor basilica in 2010. Inside are tall Corinthian columns, the 17-metre high altar designed by Pompeo Ferrari and an organ built by Friedrich Ladegast in 1876.
Poznań Cathedral on the island of Ostrów Tumski is the oldest cathedral in Poland, founded in 968 when Bishop Jordan arrived. Rebuilt in Gothic form after a fire in 1945, it holds the Golden Chapel, and its crypts show remains of the first church and graves attributed to Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave.
PS.SPEICHER is a transport museum in Einbeck housed in a restored 1898 brick grain warehouse. It opened in 2014 and displays around 300 vintage German motorcycles and cars across six floors, from early machines like the Hildebrand & Wolfmüller to postwar scooters. A separate collection of historic commercial vehicles is shown in stacked shipping containers.
Leipzig Zoo opened on 9 June 1878 in the Zentrum-Nordwest district and now covers about 27 hectares, home to roughly 850 species. Its features include Gondwanaland, an indoor tropical rainforest hall, and Pongoland, a house for gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans.
The Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig traces its roots to an art association founded in 1837 and first opened to the public in 1858. Its current glass-cube building on the former Sachsenplatz opened in 2004 and shows works from the late Middle Ages to today, including paintings by Cranach, Friedrich and Beckmann.
The Museum in der Runden Ecke occupies the former Leipzig district headquarters of the East German Ministry for State Security. Its permanent exhibition, Stasi - Macht und Banalität, documents the agency's structure and surveillance methods through original offices, equipment and files. The building was a focal point of the 1989 revolution.
St. Nicholas Church is one of Leipzig's main churches, begun in Romanesque style in 1165 and rebuilt as a Gothic hall church in the 16th century, with Baroque additions including its tower in the 18th century. In 1989 it became the starting point of the Monday Demonstrations against communist rule.
The Old Town Hall was built in 1556-57 under mayor Hieronymus Lotter on the east side of Leipzig's Markt square and is considered one of Germany's most important Renaissance civic buildings. It served as the seat of the city council until 1905, when administration moved to the New Town Hall. It now houses the Leipzig City History Museum.
Auerbachs Keller is Leipzig's second-oldest restaurant, with a wine bar recorded on the site as early as 1438. It occupies five historic dining rooms beneath the Mädler Passage arcade and owes its fame to Goethe's play Faust, where Mephistopheles first takes Faust drinking here.
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