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Local pride at Wawer’s old ‘Murowanka’ school

Maciej Piwowarczuk/wielkiehistorie.pl

On a busy road leading out of Warsaw lies the Murowanka school building, built in 1903 by the residents of Wawer, a suburb of Warsaw.

The Fab Five: Which of these stunning designs will be crowned Poland’s best?

Aiming to showcase “unique investments, facilities with exceptional architecture, and spaces full of inspiring design”, polls will close on January 10th with the winner subsequently announced at a gala to be held in Katowice on January 27th.

Otwock: A living museum, a town generously sprinkled with architectural gems and little hidden treasures

Set a stone’s throw south-east of Warsaw, Otwock is an oversight that demands to be corrected.

Spruce wood bus shelters in honour of ‘Świdermajer style’ brighten up Otwock streets

First coined by painter and architect Michał Elwiro Andriolli, the 19th and early 20th Świdermajer architectural style was inspired by both existing trends and those fomented at the 1873 World Fair in Vienna, whilst also giving a nod to the wooden architecture of Podhale as well as the aesthetics applied to traditional Russian dachas, Alpine cottages and buildings of rural Mazovia.

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Warsaw demands explanation after Belarus destroys Polish WWII memorial

The memorial, in the western village of Mikuliszki, consisted of the remains of the wartime headquarters of a Polish Home Army unit whose members died in combat in the area in 1944.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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