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Old Town in Toruñ from the left side of the Vistula River.

Toruñ is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula river. The mediaeval town, birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, is listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Old Town Hall - building begun in 1274, extended and rebuilt between 1391 - 1399, and extended in the end of 16th century one of the most monumental Town Halls in Central Europe.


Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory of the solar system in his epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). Copernicus was born in 1473 in the city of Toruñ (Thorn), in Royal Prussia, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Poland. He was educated in Poland and Italy, and spent most of his working life in Frombork (Frauenburg), Warmia, where he died in 1543. Copernicus was one of the great polymaths of the Renaissance.

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