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The Old Town Hall - the monument is located near the center of Toruń's Old Town Market Square. In 1997, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The inner courtyard (with interesting "figurines" on the windows). Inside the Town Hall, you can admire, among others, the Gothic Art Gallery. There is also the Burgher Hall with a gallery of portraits of prominent Toruń burghers (16th–18th century), where you can admire the portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus – arguably the most famous image of the astronomer in the world, the Royal Hall with the country's oldest Pocztem Królów Polskich (Gallery of Polish Kings), the Gallery of Polish Painting from the end of the 18th century to 2010. It includes works by Jan Matejko, Olga Boznańska, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Jacek Malczewski, Julian Fałat, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wróblewski, and Zdzisław Beksiński.

The castle has an open chapel on the first floor.

It is a residential complex consisting of two palaces (the Old Palace and the New Palace) and a beautiful park. It is also a cultural and recreational center. There is even a museum of old, historic pianos!

The Old Town of Toruń was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997. With the exception of a street from the end of the 19th century, almost all of the buildings are medieval in nature. The historical area includes the Old Town (city law 1231/1233) and Neustadt (city law 1246), which developed as a craft settlement. Between both of them there are the ruins of the Teutonic castle. (Wikipedia) Very nice and lively old town. There is plenty to visit, but also nice shops and restaurants.

The city of Toruń was founded in 1231 as the first settlement in the Kulmer Land under the administration of the Teutonic Order. It was originally located on the site of the later village of Alt-Torn (Polish: Stary Toruń, since the end of the 20th century the district of Starotoruńskie Przedmieście), approximately 7.5 km west of today's town, but was moved to its present site in 1236 due to permanent the flood risk has been transferred. The Teutonic Order was summoned to the country by the Polish prince Konrad of Masovia in order to Christianize the pagan Baltic Prussians living in these areas. The Order began to operate only after Emperor Frederick II granted it the right to rule over the land that was to be conquered in 1226. Landmeister Hermann von Balk laid the foundation stone of the town of Thorn in 1231. The town, which was inhabited, was inhabited by immigrants from Westphalia. it received city rights on December 28, 1233 under the Kulmer Handfeste. Thorn is the oldest town in Prussia

The history of this place in a nutshell: Ostromecko Old Palace - already in the 13th century it was the site of a former knight's manor, and later in the 16th century a noble manor. In the 1750s, in place of the modest noble residence in Ostromecko, Paweł Michał Mostowski of the Dołęga coat of arms (1721–1781), Pomeranian voivode in the years 1758–1763, built a palace in the Dresden Baroque style, now called the Old Palace. After the first partition of Poland in 1772, Ostromecko was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia. From 1804, the owners became the wealthy merchant family Schönborn from Grudziądz. In 1832, Jakub Martin Schönborn commissioned the construction of a new residence, the so-called New Palace. At the same time, he began to arrange a landscape park in the English style, designed by the Prussian royal gardener. In 1873, the Schonborn and Alvensleben families were united in Ostromecko (Marta Matylda Maria Schönborn + Albrecht von Alvensleben) At the end of the 19th century, the Ostromecko estate was one of the largest in the Chełmno district. It covered an area of 3,000. hectares, where seven farms, a sawmill, a distillery, a brickyard and a mineral water plant operated. In 1920, under the Treaty of Versailles, Ostromecko was incorporated into the Polish state. The Ostromecko estate was then managed by Count Joachim von Alvensleben - a Polish citizen, of German nationality, of the Evangelical denomination, with a favorable attitude towards the Polish authorities. He employed Poles and parceled out land for them, and in 1930 he financed the monument of freedom in Ostromecko in honor of the 10th anniversary of regaining independence. In 1945, the Avensleben palaces, park and mausoleum were plundered by Soviet Army soldiers and the local population. After World War II, as part of the agricultural reform, the estates of the Alvensleben-Schonborn family were taken over by the State Treasury. In 1985, the Old Palace was taken over by the Pomeranian Philharmonic as its branch. Ignacy Paderewski in Bydgoszcz. The palace and park complex in Ostromecko was called "Bydgoszcz Wilanów" and it was planned to transform it into a cultural center radiating to the entire region. The Old Palace houses a collection (125 items) of contemporary Polish paintings and graphics, as well as a collection of 50 antique pianos and grand pianos. Additionally, valuable books and reprints of old works, mainly related to the Enlightenment era, have been collected here. Currently, all palace buildings are owned by the City of Bydgoszcz. source[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zesp%C3%B3%C5%82_pa%C5%82acowo-parkowy_w_Ostromecku]

The Park and Palace Complex in Ostromecko is also a place of interesting cultural events, including publicly available ones, often organized outdoors near the palace, which can be combined with a bicycle trip. I still remember Sunday bicycle trips from Toruń to Ostromecko combined with an open-air concert of excellent opera performers as part of the publicly available Sunday "Music Terraces" under the new palace. https://www.komoot.com/pl-pl/tour/1676977928

Cycling Bydgoszcz - Toruń