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Poznań is the fifth-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. As of 2023, the city's population is 540,146, while the Poznań metropolitan area (Metropolia Poznań) comprising Poznań County and several other communities is inhabited by over 1.029 million people.
- Old Market Square. This central plaza was laid out in 1253, the very year that Poznań received its town rights under Holy Roman Magdeburg Law. It is almost a perfect square, measuring 141 x 141 metres, and after losing 60% of its buildings in 1945 was quickly restored after the war.
- Poznan Town Hall. The Old Market Square’s crowning glory is a late-Renaissance wonder from 1550 to 1560. On the eastern facade is a beautiful loggia with three tiers and paintings in the spandrels and friezes between and above its arches.
- Historical Museum of Poznań. The interior of the Town Hall has been a museum since 1956 and merits a separate entry. The star of the show is the Grand Vestibule, which looks pretty much as it did in the middle of the 16th century.
- Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island) It is no exaggeration to say that Poland was born on this island between the forks of the Warta River. The island today is a sleepy settlement of cobblestone streets and squares fringed by trees and historic ecclesiastical buildings.
Poznań. Poznań (German: Posen) is the largest city in Greater Poland, in the west of Poland, and one of the largest metropoles in the whole country. Situated roughly equidistantly between Warsaw and Berlin, it serves as a major economic hub, and a centre for industry and commerce.
Poznań, city, capital of Wielkopolskie województwo (province), west-central Poland, located on the Warta River near its confluence with the Cybina. Beginning as a small stronghold in the 9th century, Poznań became the capital of Poland (with Gniezno) and the residence of Poland’s first two sovereigns .
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