The City of Nicholas Copernicus
February 10th 2008 Torun is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River. The medieval old town of ToruĊ is the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus. It was inscribed onto the World Heritage List of UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1997. Torun is one of the few Polish cities which were not destroyed in World War II. The buildings you see here are as old as they look. Everybody knows the story of the rat catcher o
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