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Medieval Town of Toruń
| Site number: | 835 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 13th century | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1997 | |
| Location: | Europe, Poland, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship, City and County of Toruń | |
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Other languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian-bokmål, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Low German
Other languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian-bokmål, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Low German
| Description: | In the mid-13th century the Teutonic Order erected a castle here as a center of operations for the occupation and evangelization of Prussia; Torun owes its origins to this event. It rapidly developed a commercial role within the Hanseatic League. As a remarkable indication of Torun's significance are the many imposing 14th and 15th century public and private buildings (among them the house of Copernicus) situated in the Old and New Town. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| Toruń is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River. The medieval old town, birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/835 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |