Toruń Gingerbread (Lebkuchen)

In this shop of the firm Kopernik you can buy all
kinds of ginger breads (Lebkuchen).

"Lebkuchen" are already baked from the 14th century.

Not only because of the the good flour and honey from the neighbourhood Torun was the right city for these cakes.

Also the fact that Torun was situated at the European trade roads, made it possible to obtain the right spices.

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Here you can read more about the firm or about the history in a virtual book format.

Toruń November 1 : All Saints' Day - All Soul's Day

During All Saint's Day (Wszystkich Świętych) and All Soul's Day (Święto zmartłych) the public transport is on standby.

The City Department of Communications in Torun, produced a special resolution associated with the feast of All Saints and line 61 was put on to the Municipal Cemetery.

On the graveyards you see a lot of coloured candles and it looks like a disco.

Alas a lot of accidents take place, for there are so many (too many?) people on the road.

An interesting link (in Dutch) is:

http://www.pluspost.nl/geen-halloween-wel-een-massale-run-op-de-begraafplaatsen/20586

(picture from agencja gazeta)

Toruń Nowy Rynek Toilet

Toruń has two market squares, the Old Rynek and the New Rynek.

The Nowy Rynek is square (95x95 m), and was the commercial centre of New Town of Torun till August 12, 1264.

It received city rights, or their own counsel, the bench (the court), offices, stamp, crest, and up to 8 Mar 1454, it remained a separate body from the Old the city of Torun.

On the square is a building erected like a small Greek house with columns.

In this building a public toilet is made downstairs.

You see this view on the square when you go upstairs.

Toruń Szeroka Corner II

Nowadays it is still a store house, but more a shopping wall with several different shops.

It's called Dom Towarowy and on the first floor, where you could see clothes on the picture below, now coffee and snacks are sold.

If you compare the pictures you see that some buildings have got an extra floor.

Toruń Szeroka Corner I

This corner is the most famous corner of Torun, since the statue of Copernicus is erected here.

You see the most left building, the store house of M.S. Leiser.

The picture is made in the beginning of 1900.

Toruń Gwiazda Kopernika

An animation movie about Copernicus has been released.

See here for the trailer.

Toruń Love at the Wisla Banks

What is nicer at a summer evening than to sit with your love near the banks of the Wisla and see the wrinkling of the water, streaming to the north, also when the town is sleeping and all have gone to bed.