Torun

The Old and the New Town in Toruń, with the Teutonic Castle, were entered on the UNESCO list of the most important historic sites of World cultural heritage in 1997.

The town established in 1233, by the knights of the Teutonic Order, through eight centuries of rich history, has been the home of people of different nations and religions: the capital of the Teutonic State, one of the most modern cultural formations in Medieval Europe; then, in times of economic prosperity and poverty, Toruń belonged to the Polish Crown, and to Prussia and the II Reich since the beginning of the 19th century. From 1918 it became again a part of Poland. The town, with its original Medieval architectonic structure, enriched through ages with Gothic, Baroque and Secession edifices, is an encyclopedia of culture.