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...("Under the Eagle Hotel") an icon of turn of the century Bydgoszcz architecture, was designed by a prominent architect from Bydgoszcz - Józef Święcicki, the designer of over 60 excellent buildings in the city. The construction of the hotel was completed in 1896. From the beginning the edifice functioned as a hotel, and was originally run by Emil Bernhardt. Among the hotel guests we could find such notables as Arthur Rubinstein. The extremely rich facade of the building is decorated with elements of neo-baroque architecture.
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...in Bydgoszcz is a busy route connecting downtown to the Old Town. The focal point of the street is the J. Sulima-Kaminski Bridge, which offers a beautiful view of the river Brda and numerous monuments of the city centred around the river. The panorama on the eastern side of the bridge is dominated by the three famous granaries of Bydgoszcz (18th/19th entury), the official symbol of the city, now part of the Leon Wyczółkowski Museum. In the foreground, in turn, the attention of passers-by is drawn by a new symbol of the city, a statue of a tightrope walker gracefully teetering on line - "Man crossing the River" (2004).
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...(Freedom Square), the 17th-century Poor Clare sisters former garden, located on Gdańska Street in Bydgoszcz, creates a real "salon" of the city. Though it had been laid out by 1854, it gained its exceptional atmosphere only in the early 20th century after the construction of the majority of the buildings that still surround the square. Wolności Square exhibits primarily sophisticated turn of the century architecture, we can find here perfect modernism (27 Gdańska Street), neo-baroque (1 Wolności Square), neo-gothic (building of Grammar School No. 1 in Bydgoszcz), and finally modest Art Nouveau (3 Wolności Square). However, the most distinctive structures in the square are: St. Peter and St. Paul church, built in 1876 by Berlin architect Friedrich Adler and the fountain - monument "Deluge", 1904, by Ferdinand Lepcke, the creator of the famous Bydgoszcz "Archer Lady".
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...is the oldest part of Bydgoszcz, its spatial arrangement being planned by King Casmir the Great in 1346. The Old Town means primarily the Old Market with its picturesque 19th-century houses and surrounding streets, all of which are located in the immediate vicinity of the Brda River. The most important, yet most original monuments of the Old Town are the cathedral (1502), the former Jesuit college - today the City Hall (1653), the classical building of the Provincial and Municipal Public Library (1778), the neo-gothic market hall (1904), the majestic building of the Provincial District Court (1906) and, finally, the tallest building in Bydgoszcz, the neo-gothic Church of St. Andrzej Bobola with a 75-meter tower (1903).
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 The Bydgoszcz Water Tram is perceived as an element of the city public transport, and at the same time is a major tourist attraction. The popularity of this means of transport can be evidenced by numbers: 1570 hours of cruising a year with 40 thousand people carried. The trip on a water tram can start at Rybi Rynek (Fish Market). From there we can head off in two directions: towards Astoria or Tesco.
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