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As POZNAN is a city with a tradition longer than 1,000 years, the environs are a veritable paradise for tourists. Their heritage includes monuments from all historical epochs in Europe. The city has numerous castles, palaces, mansions, old tenement houses, churches, heritage parks. Make sure you do not miss the pearl of northern Europen architecture and POZNAN's most characteristics edifice: the Renaissance Town Hall with its magnificent tower in the Old Market Square.

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How do you get there?
Eurocity trains from Berlin take three hours as does the car journey from Warsaw. There are convenient road and rail connections with all major towns and cities in Poland. From the city's airport, Lawica, you can catch regular flights to Warsaw and Dusseldorf.

Where can you stay?
There are the famous big hotels in the centre of the city or more private ones in beatiful, secluded locations a little further from the centre. You can also stay in one of the motels or camp-sites situates upon one of the nearby lakes. During the trade fairs many Poznanians let rooms, flats and villas.

Where can you take a break?
The best place would be upon one of the four lakes located in the city, the biggest of which is Lake Kierskie - famous for yachting centre. Others, situated near the city centre and surrounded by parks and forests include Lake Malta - which has a boat-race course and hosts sporting competitions, outdoor concerts, and is a place for walks and weekend recreation for Poznanians. Or you can enjoy the lakes and woods of the Wielkopolska national Park and the Zielonka Forest on the borders of Poznan.

Poznan - History



The capital and largest city of Poznan province, Poznan lies on the Warta River in west-central Poland. It is a major cultural and literary center, with several institutions of higher education, scientific organizations, opera and dance centers, and a number of theatres. Points of interest include the Raczynski Library, Market Square, the Museum of Musical Instruments, the National Museum, and the oldest zoological garden in Poland.
Large apartment buildings, built after World War II, provide housing. Poznan is one of Poland's largest industrial and commercial centers. Its industries include metallurgical works, chemical and furniture factories, textile mills, and food-processing plants. Since 1921 it has hosted a major international trade fair. The city has good transport routes to other European cities. Beginning as a fortified village in the 10th century, Poznan became the capital of Poland and the residence of the first two Polish kings. Poland's first cathedral was erected here in 968. The town flourished as a European trade center during the 15th and 16th centuries, but later its prosperity declined due to fires and wars. It was under Russian administration from 1807 to 1815. It has been part of the Polish republic since 1918. Poznan prospered again between the two world wars but was devastated in 1939 by Germany. A 1945 siege left the city in ruins. Rebuilt after World War II it became an industrial and cultural center of Poland. Population (1992 estimate), 590,100.

The City of POZNAN has been located on the right bank of the Warta River in western Poland for over 1000 years. Fortified city was founded in 9th century and Prince of Great Poland (Wielkopolska) Przemysl I gave the city rights of Poznan in 1253. Poznan is capital of Great Poland Province. Thanks to the Poznan International Fair and host of Polish and international banks based here, it is also regarded as Poland's capitol of commerce and finance.
There are different submits about rise of the city name. Some chroniclers maintained that city owed this name because on this grounds met King of Poland Boleslaw Chrobry (The Brave) and German Caesar Otton III. Archdiac from Gniezno John (Jan) said that city got the name POZNAN because here Prince Mieszko I received the christianity and here Poles knew the new faith. Other version take the name POZNAN from legend about Lech, Czech and Rus who met themselves and for celebrate this historical meeting they decided found the fortified city between Cybina River and Warta River and call it POZNAN.

Which version is true? We only know that this name has Slavonic origin, i.e. from adjective and ordinary name "poznany" (recognized).

The city with an area of 26,131 ha is a major railroad and road junction and a port on the Warta River. POZNAN is conveniently situated. It is only 300 km from Warszawa and Berlin, 465 km from Copenhagen, 885 km from Brussels, 1215 km from Rome and 1395 km from Moscow. Today with its about 600,000 inhabitants (269,585 of men + 308,650 women = 578,235 together, 31.12.1998), including approximately 60,000 university students, it is a major university center midway between Berlin and Warsaw. It is also a major center for European and international trade and industrial conventions and fairs so that the hotel, dining and entertainment facilities excel on a European standard. The chief industries are food processing and the manufacture of metals, engines, freight cars, machine tools, chemicals, and ceramics. The City itself presents a pleasant environment beautified with an abundance of greenery and lakes throughout. It has a picturesque, medieval downtown (Stare Miasto), a 19th-20th century central business section and modern residential areas around the City. In 1956 workers staged large-scale protest demonstrations in Poznan, which led to changes in the Stalin' era.

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Every June the Market place as well as the wonderful recreational area around artificial Malta Lake, turns into a huge open-air stage for performances of the "Malta" International Theater Festival. POZNAN is worldwide famous for its Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competitions, boys' and men's choirs (Poznan Nightingales - S.Stuligrosz, Polish Nightingales - J.Kurczewski), the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra (A.Duczmal), the International Jazz Festival "Jazz Fair", the Folk Blues Fair, the Polish Dance Theatre (E.Wycichowska), Europe's only Museum of Musical Instruments, and many, many more.

No matter who you are or where you come from, you can always count on our hospitality and professional, friendly service.

The coat-of-arms has blue background, white city wall with battlements, a gate and three towers. Above the central tower (the tallest) is a red shield with a white eagle and golden stripe on its wings. Two standing figures, Saint Paul with a golden sword and Saint Peter with a golden key, on the other two towers. In the gate, two golden keys and a cross above them. Next to the figures of the Saints, golden stars and half-moons. The coat-of-arms, known from seals since the fourteenth century, was approved in 1936.

With nine theatres (including the opera house), a symphony orchestra and 28 choirs Poznan is the cultural centre of central and western Poland. Stefan Stuligrosz's Poznan Nightingales, a men's and boys' choir and Wojciech Krolopp's Poznan Boys' Choir, are known all over the world.

Several festivals and music competitions are organized in the city.

There are 17 museums and many exhibition salons, several private art galleries and salons of antiques, etc.

...it is said that the citizens of Poznan are thrifty, stubborn and well-organised. Our ancestors must been so because, it was here that the first Polish state was created a thousand years ago.
Poznan and Gniezno (50 km away) were the first Polish capitals. Both cities are connected by the tourist trail known as the Piast Route, along which we can bear witness to the distant past of the region, e.g. Lake Lednica with the remains of a settlement dating from the 9th and 10th centuries, where, according to the legend, the first Polish King to be crowned, Boleslaw The Brave, was born...

The tombs of Boleslaw The Brave and his father, Duke Mieszko, are situated in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Poznan. The first cathedral was romanesque in style but nowadays this imposing building's outline and walls are gothic.

Apart from the cathedral, the most precious building in Poznan is the 16th century renaissance Town Hall in the Old Square. It is surrounded by old merchant houses which were carefully restored after World War II. From there, you are a stone's throw away from Golebia Street and Poznan's parish church, one of the most splendid examples of baroque churches in Poland.

The first school of higher education in Poznan, the Lubranski Academy, was founded in 1518... There are now over 10 schools of higher education. In a city of 600,000 inhabitants there are over 50,000 students.

The main sources of wealth for Poznan's citizens were craft and trade. For ages, Poznan has been famous for its trade fairs and markets. The largest one was St. John's Market (24th June) during which people traded primarily in wool and cereals.

The St. John's Market of today is a place where art collectors, master craftsmen, and those whose hobby is art and collecting flock to during Poznan's biggest trade fair, the Poznan International Fair in June.

Poznan is the capital of the so-called "bread-basket" of the Polish state. It is the home of the only Agricultural Horticultural Exchange of this kind in Poland, a joint Poznan-Swiss initiative. The Swiss maintain that flowers, fruit and vegetables are traded "just as in Zurich".

On the other hand, the Poznan Exchange, which matches western standards, specialises in cereals, meat and fertilisers.

The presence of over 30 banks in Poznan, including a few foreign ones, all help promote business.

It can be said, without any false modesty, that Poznan, in many respects, is very special city. For instance the richness of musical life: Poznan is home to the world-famous boys' and men's male voice choirs conducted by Stefan Stuligrosz and Wojciech Krolopp, and the Polish Theatre of Dance - Poznan Ballet, the only one of its kind in Poland. Music lovers regularly come to Poznan for the Contemporary Music Festivals and for Henryk Wieniawski violin nad violin making competitions, held every five years here in Poznan...

The Philharmonic Orchestra, the Opera, the Theatres... a great number of museums, among which is the Museum of Musical Instruments, which has one of the richest collections in Europe.

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