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May 31 - What to discover in Szczecin
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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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