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What makes Toruń’s gingerbread the best in the world?

Gingerbread has been produced in Toruń since the 14th century. Kalbar/TFN

Toruń’s gingerbread tradition dates back to the Middle Ages, with the first mention of it coming in 1380 when a baker named Niclos Czan was recorded as producing the delicacy.

World’s biggest gingerbread town opens in Gliwice

Using over 1.2 tonnes of gingerbread dough, 120kg of honey, 28kg of ground spices, 32kg of icing sugar and 312 eggs, the model town features 300 intricately and colourfully decorated houses, two moving chocolate trains, a Christmas tree decorated with coloured icing as well as Santa Claus and other characters.

Two’s company: the lure of Toruń and Bydgoszcz

Just a short train ride from Warsaw are two contrasting cities that lie only a stone’s throw apart.

Sto lat: Toruń marks 100 years of Polish rule

After being the bosses for decades in January 1920, the Germans relinquished control to the Poles.

Little town of gingerbread delights with its intricate features and tasty designs

Led by renowned gingerbread artist Marcin Goetz, more than 30 artists came together to create the 80-square-metre gingerbread town in the city of Gliwice, southwest Poland.

Town goes nuts and builds massive gingerbread replica of itself

Town builds gingerbread replica honour of its baking heritage.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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