May 31 - What to discover in Szczecin
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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I’m in Szczecin in northwest Poland – previously known as Stettin, when in German hands.
It’s a fascinating city, as I have been hearing from Szymon Maksymiuk at the city’s tourist office – who explained that Szczecin has the newest “old town” in Europe – dating from the 1990s and still not finished.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder. It's Wednesday the 31st of May and I have a great honour and privilege of being in Schetchen in Poland, the far north-east of this lovely country, very close to the border, with Germany. I have an even better benefit, |
| 0:23.6 | which is that I'm with Simon Maximouk, and he is the tour guide in the tourist of in |
| 0:31.6 | Schetchen. First of all, Simon, very nice to you. Have I pronounced it correctly? |
| 0:36.6 | That was perfect. And I keep repeating to tourists that Polish language is actually |
| 0:42.3 | easier than it seems to pronounce. And just to clarify things, we are right now in far northwest |
| 0:52.3 | of Poland. Oh yes, okay. But you've been also correct |
| 0:56.0 | because from German point of view |
| 0:59.0 | and Stetian is this soft transition |
| 1:01.0 | between Poland and Germany, |
| 1:03.0 | so from German point of view, |
| 1:04.0 | it is indeed a far northeast of Germany |
| 1:08.0 | just by Berlin. |
| 1:09.0 | We are not more than 120 kilometres from Berlin well many |
| 1:14.1 | people are very familiar with Berlin they're not familiar with Schetchen and |
| 1:18.3 | should they be I hope they are not familiar with Schochen yet they definitely |
| 1:24.5 | should be there are many hidden gems in Sch Stochin and I always repeat that we do have here many the places, the highest, the biggest, the oldest. |
| 1:38.3 | Tell me what those are, the highest, the biggest, the oldest. |
| 1:43.3 | Let's take the highest cathedral in Poland, for example. |
| 1:48.0 | It has 110 meters, it is 110 meters high, which gives it the first place. |
| 1:58.0 | Although it is the second highest church in Poland. |
| 2:01.6 | The highest church in Poland in general is in Lijen, which is indeed far northeast of Poland. |
| 2:08.6 | But again, the biggest cemetery in Poland we have, and the third in Europe, which is rather a sort of a botanical garden than a cemetery it houses 400 species of plants |
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