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This photo shows the election of Poland’s first beauty queen in communist Poland. Taking place in Sopot, it attracted such a crowd that the competition had to be moved onto the roof of a building so everyone could see.

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 sandy [...]

This crazy looking building is situated in Sopot, at Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street. The architecture of the  building is based on drawings by Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. There is also unusual roof covered with sheet metal with enamel roof tiles coloured with green shades, see blue and Parishian blue, which gives the illusion [...]