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Commie-era mosaic for ‘working classes’ entered into National Register of Movable Monuments

Decorating the façade of the former Saturn factory in Warsaw’s Wawer district, the work by Domicella Bożekowska was commissioned in 1965. Tomasz Gzell/PAP

Decorating the façade of the former Saturn factory in Warsaw’s Wawer district, the work by Domicella Bożekowska and commissioned in 1965 was intended to “introduce contemporary art beyond art galleries, as well as to raise the cultural knowledge of the so-called working class.”

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An unusual choice? Maybe. A good one? Absolutely! Why Łódź is top travel destination for 2021

From a personal point of view, it’s sheer depth of contrast comes somewhere near the top: lavish wedding cake palaces that reference the might once wielded by the city’s power players; futuristic office compounds; blackened, broken tenements; abandoned, creepy warehouses; restored redbrick factories; and PRL blocks of cosmic dimension.

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Moving on down the line: how a narrow-gauge railway staved off economic death to become the heart of a community

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