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I made a post on the Sea Towers in Gdynia last year whilst they were under construction. The 146m towers are now finished and apartments are available for sale and also to rent, some as holiday lets.  The Sea Towers complex contain a restaurant, bar, shops, spa and 2 swimming pools, I’ve seen holiday lets [...]

Owisnka is a town close to Poznan, a psychiatric hospital was opened here in 1839. In 1939 the German army occupied the town and the hospital was taken over, no patients were allowed to leave and finally the SS Sonderkommando were ordered to extemrinate all patients. In October 1939 the patients were collected by truck [...]

Another large house in Poland for sale with a little work required, this time about 20km from Poznan, priced at just $550,000 you get 11 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and 5 reception rooms. The house is set in 1.6 hec of land with a large pond, forest is just 3km away.

Like many places in Eastern Europe you can find large houses/castles in small towns or in the middle of nowhere in Poland which have fallen into disrepair. This home (advertised as a Palace) is located between Wroclaw and the Sowie Mountain Park, 20 minutes from the ski area and also 20 minutes from a spa. [...]

First documented in 1310 Poznan’s town hall was built during the reign of Waclaw II Czeski. It’s currenently The Poznan Museum of History and The National Museum of Poznan. The gothic town hall that preceded it on this site burnt down in 1536 and was replaced with the present structure designed by Italian architect Giovanni [...]

When Wroclaw was the German city of Breslau to commemrate the 100th Aniversary of the Battle of Leipzig they decided to build the a Centennial Hall. Originally named Jahrunderhalle it was renamed Hala Ludowa (“People’s Hall”) when the city became part of Poland under a communist government in 1945. A Pioneering work of design built [...]

Built in 1927 the Grand Hotel is the best hotel in the Tricity (Sopot, Gdansk and Gdynia) if not Poland. A huge refurbishment has recently been completed and the hotel was reopened as a Spa resort in January 2008. Location wise you couldn’t ask for much more, set in a lovely park and on a [...]