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Warsaw restaurant breaks world record for tallest ever pancake tower

Taking 90 minutes to prepare the base after a wobbly table threatened to derail the whole attempt, it then took the Mr. Pancake team over two hours to carefully stack the 166 sponge disks to reach a whopping 102.4cm. Kalbar/TFN

Taking 90 minutes to prepare the base after a wobbly table threatened to derail the whole attempt, it then took the Mr. Pancake team over two hours to carefully stack the 166 sponge disks to reach a whopping 102.4cm.

Tallest viewing tower in Poland, which has a helter-skelter ride to get back down, opens to the public

The aptly named ‘Sky Walk’ in the Lower Silesian spa town of Świeradów-Zdrój is a whopping 65-metres tall, with a winding 850-metre walk leading to stunning views of the Jizera Mountains.

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

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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Acting royalty wins internet hearts after adopting dog run over by Russian tank

Janusz Chabior and his actress wife  Agata Wątróbska took in the adorable pooch called Henio after finding him in a Polish shelter where he had been sent from Ukraine.

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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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