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Kraków and Gliwice unveil new graduation towers to help the people breathe

All you need is the air that you breathe: the new graduation tower in Gliwice. Andrzej Grygiel/PAP

The structures create a mineral-rich mist by dripping saline water through brushwood.

Spectacular observation tower to once again crown Śnieżnik mountain nearly 50 years after controversial demolition

Inaugurated on 9th July 1899, the 33.5-metre tower – adjoined by a shorter 18-metre structure – was built with the purpose of providing views from the so-called Silesian Mont Blanc and quickly became a hit among hikers of the time.

Capital’s historic Prudential tower, embodying everything glamorous about interwar Poland, reopens as luxury hotel

TFN’s Alex Webber takes a look at the building’s extraordinary past and its stunning reincarnation.

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FREEDOM! Auschwitz museum boss calls victory after Nigerian teen freed from jail

Auschwitz museum director Piotr Cywiński stepped in to help and offered to serve part of the teen’s jail sentence for clemency after Omar Farouq Bashir was sentenced allegedly ‘blaspheming against Allah’ during an argument with a friend at school.

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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

Still operating, the Pleszew line has embraced the future by becoming a cultural centre.

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