Toruń: The Medieval Pearl of Poland
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- Toruń, Poland is a stunningly well preserved medieval city that is now protected by UNESCO. Unlike many other parts of Poland, Toruń has never been destroyed so the old town is like an outdoor museum. Taking a stroll is a lesson in the history of architecture. Founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1236 (the castle ruins are still here), Toruń is perhaps best known as the birthplace of genius Renaissance man, Nicolaus Copernicus. Amongst many things, he is credited with coming up with a heliocentric model of the universe and changing the course of science. Toruń is also known for its gingerbread, which it's been making since the fourteenth century. Toruń is a true gem within Europe that somehow isn't full of the crowds of tourists and high price tags you find in many other such fairytale towns.
Huge thank you to the Polish Tourism Organization for having us!
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So what do you think of the pigeons: cute or no?
Eileen Aldis 25 minutes away from place I was living however next year moving back permanently,love go to Toruń because is so close,on evening during beautiful summer banks of Toruń and lights around look perfect+nice Old Town and party clubs 🤤
straight up adorable
Definitely the cutest! Them drinking from the statue frogs was cracking me up!:)
They are but the problem is that they can transmit lots of diseases .I wouldnt touch them .And their poo is destroying buildings too , walls , monuments etc
Cute
A good video about one of the most beautiful,lovely and interesting cities of Poland,a great country with great people.Greetings and appreciations from Romania.
I live in Toruń and it's amazing how little do people appreciate those amazing sites when they have contact with them on a day to day basis. This video makes me want to go out to the city centre, or as we call it in Polish starówka and experience those beautiful buildings, walkways and everything else once more.
I'm gonna write down my observations regarding everything you talk about/show down here as I'm watching:
1. Jan Olbracht is an amazing restaurant with years of tradition and is famous for their beers in Toruń. If you ever come back to Poland in the winter, I'd strongly recommend coming back to Jan Olbracht for mulled gingerbread beer. It's delicious and really can warm you up on a cold evening.
2. The hotel you were staying at - Copernicus Hotel is really nice, but there is a much nicer one, even closer to the centre, it's called Hotel Bulwar, I'd highly recommend that for your future trips.
3. The church in the background in 6:55 offers free supper for those who want to come, it's right after the evening mass every sunday.
4. The whole thing of Toruń being the city of gingerbread is kinda a meme around here, but NGL I'm snacking on some gingerbread right now :D
5. The statue of Copernicus got dressed in a tie-dye shirt, hat, and he got a pair of sunglasses for piernikalia (a holiday for students in May known for parties, BBQs at the dorms, and loads of students that are dressed in funny ways). I got to see it and it was hilarious.
6. From my experience I could recommend visiting Manekin - a pancake restaurant that originated in Toruń and is slowly expanding to other parts of Poland such as Bydgoszcz, Poznań and Gdańsk. It's always full of college students, because the food although being quite cheap is really, really good.
Come to Toruń again and we will welcome you, as is tradition in Poland, with salt and bread. Loved the video, thanks for putting it out there
Thank you sooo much for promoting my country. Your enthusiasm is contagious!!
aww thanks! We love Poland ❤️
You two are great! Thnx for posting. I never would've thought of putting Torun on my list of cities to visit in Poland until now. Thnx!
Toruń moje miasto..pozdrawiam wszystkich z Torunia...I cała reszte też
8:56 “These kids are loving it too” - little girl proceeds to kick the pigeon 😂🤣
was sich liebt, das neckt sich :)
@@RagnarCzerwony "Kto się czubi, ten się lubi"
Very nice story about my city. Thank you! It is true that Torun didn't suffer much neither from the German nor from the Russians, at least not during the crazy 20th century. However it suffered heavy damages from... difficult to believe now - Swedes. Especially during a heavy artillery bombardment in 1703. They caused severe damages to the Town hall among many other buildings. Actually it's never been fully recovered since.
What an amazing city with such a rich and interesting history! This seems like like a place definitely worth visiting. You and Marc are great storytellers! Love your videos! Keep up the great work :)
Thank you! It's such a beautiful city full of great history and stories :)
Great storytellers.
I'm loving your tour of Poland! Thanks for taking us with you. I can't wait until I can visit myself. Torun reminds me of Brugges, Belgium in that it is an intact medieval city; however, Brugges is very busy with tourists. Torun looks to be equally beautiful! I love the story of the villagers kicking the Teutonic Knights out, and then toppling the castle so they wouldn't come back. I also enjoyed the leaning tower of Torun. Who knew there was another leaning tower besides the one in Pisa?!
OMG, coincidentally, I fell in love with plums this past summer, too, and baked a wonderful late summer plum cake a few of weeks ago! Delicious with a nice cup of tea.
Guys you are amazing. Eileen a lot of respect to you for educating yourself before visiting a city. Many vloggers can't say a thing about the place they're visiting or they come up with some funny stuff. You on the other hand, know what you're talking about You're showing that you've actually read about the place that you are visiting.Thank you very much for the content!
I love Toruń! Before the Teutonic Mill was restored and made into a hotel, the building housed several small 1 or 2 room apartments, my mother was born in one of those apartments. This means so much to us, thank you ❤️
Wow! What an amazing story - thank you for sharing that! Obviously a really special place for your family ❤️
Beautiful! 😍 I lived in Toruń in the past and it is still my favourite city in the world! Thank you for a great report on the city 😀👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is the best video ever about Torun! Congratulations - so many special attractions and you make it all so interesting with your stories. First I think the pigeons are very cute in this
video- especially the ones drinking out of the frog fountains. The leaning tower made me chuckle out loud and the ancient bricks takes ones breath away to have survived for so
many centuries. I'm with you about the gingerbread design. So much more romantic a tale! Thanks as always Eileen and Marc for taking us along on your adventures. Torun deserves
many visitors!
It's adorable how you find and show those little accents of our surrounding which we usually don't even notice while passing by. The pigeons for example, so many of them everywhere, dirty little pests, but you found them drinking water from the golden frog's, amazing. I love to watch your videos, you adorable Canadians :D.
Torun najpiekniejsze miasto w polsce
Ja tam mieszkam😎💪👍😀🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
@@pablowek1318 ja też
Ja tam mieszkam
Naajak!
Dziękuje za Toruń !!!! :D
I'm very greated full that you show how interesting is Toruń. It is the one of the best cities in Poland. Thank You very much!!!
Imagine that Toruń had city rights a quarter of a Millennium before Columbus discovered America.
Actually yes, it's an old memory. I was treated to some during a visit to Soviet occupied Poland with my Polish born parents to visit our family in the late 1960s. I'm Canadian born, so I was accustomed to the sugary sweets here. I didn't really like the Kopernik. But the childhood memory of Copernicus' house, especially his study, remains burned in my mind. It's too bad they didn't record the interior.
Toruń otrzymał prawa miejskie od Niemców w grudniu 1233 r. Kopernik urodził się na ulicy świętej Anny około dwadzieścia lat przed tym jak Kolumb odkrył Amerykę
@@holyshit922 Dziękuję za informację.
Toruń city rights: 1233. Columbus arrived to America in 1492. How that makes a quarter of century? I think you meant a quarter of millenium.
@@MrAwg77 Yes, millennium. That's exactly what I meant. Distraction Error. Thank you for the correction and best regards.
Hi Eileen Aldis. I am glad you are loving the city which surprisingly isn't as touristy a place as it deserves to be.
Personally it is one of my favourite places in Poland and now you are bringing it up. Thanks and keep it up. You are a lovely couple. Congratulations!
Hey Eddie! Thank you! :) Lots more Poland videos on the way. I'm not surprised to hear this is one of your favourite spots in Poland. I can definitely see why. I'm floored that there aren't bunches of tourists. Do you have a favourite part of Toruń?
Remember that it is already out of season. In summer, there are many tourists in Toruń.
The statue of Copernicus is really impressive! 👌👌
I loved it too!
I'm a Pole and I know most of the places you visited but nobody's ever told me so much about those places as you have. Thank you so much!!! Watching your videos makes me one thought come to my mind: I love you and I'd like to be around you all the time to make my life more attractive and beautiful. You're full of joy, optimism and openhearted. I love you so much!!!! You're the best!!! I have a friend in Toronto and she is so wonderful and I like her so much. I guess people from Canada are so gorgeous like you are!!! :-)
Very great material, thanks :)
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I was in Torun in 2009 , beautiful town
Yes, it’s beautiful.
Wow Eileen you and Mark are looking very nice beautiful amazing Torun poland video well done 😊😊❤️❤️👍👍
If you will ever visit the city again, remember to go to the other side of the river after dusk to see the panorama of the city. It is stunning
Where my peeps are from! My Grandfathers parents come from here. My grandfather was born in the U.S. in 1898. His father was born in 1850! His father was born in 1820 and my 3rd great grandfather was born in 1798 in this beautiful city! 😍
Hi Heather! Thank you for sharing your family connection! That is very interesting. Have you been able to visit?
Loved pigeons, the statues, gingerbread, old buildings and history in this video...you showed us a great day in Poland.
Yes, there's a lot to see in this city! Glad you enjoyed it all too :)
When I go there, if I ever do; there are 3 dishes I want to try: the pig knuckles, the roast duck, and the potato
pancakes. Holy yum! Btw, Slivovitz= plum brandy!
Omg I wish i will go there with Erasmus from Turkey and that was awesome video thank you🌸🌸 Both of them, you are amazing with your love✨✨
Thank you so much! ❤️ This would be a wonderful and inspiring place to study! Greetings to you in Turkey :)
Hi! I live in Toruń and for me it's the most charming place on Earth :) thank you guys for visiting us and sharing the beauty of our lovely small city! Fun fact: imagine that at Christmas time this sober Nicolaus Copernicus statue has Santa's hat on his head - looks great :D
Wish you best! : )
😍 pozdrawiam z Torunia , jesteście super 😁😊
You are So positive persons and happines , I like you very well. Toruń is beautiful city.
Aww thank you - we appreciate that ❤️ Yes, it’s a beautiful city!
I'm from Torun and I love this city with my whole heart. 😊 I'm so happy it's getting the attention it deserves. I think that not many people knows about it's beauty 🤔
By the way I'm surprised that I didn't know many of the facts you presented. I think I have to learn more about my own city 😅
haha your city has a lot of amazing stories to learn! :)
I from Toruń
🇵🇱😀👍💪😎
Yeah. I from Toruń too🤗
I from Toruń
Uwielbiam Toruń i mieszkam bardzo blisko 💗🇵🇱
I just moved in to Torun from Warsaw and I think this city is just gorgeous. Warsaw is beautiful too but Torun has a really cool spirit. And I looove the aesthetic here.
We loved Warsaw too, as you can tell from the videos :) Glad you're enjoying your lovely new city!
Amazing work! Thanks for this :)
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
I have never been to Toruń but that means next time I’m in Poland have to go there . Thank you so much for these vlogs I see you are really getting around Poland . ❤️
Thanks, Elizabeth! Yes a great Polish adventure and more videos coming :) I do hope you'll be able to visit Toruń on your next trip - it's beautiful and so historic.
W Toruniu moją pierwszą miłość poznałem 😍
Cóż za piękne miejsce, w którym można się zakochać!
Kudos for your attention to history and culture - in a uniquely sweet sauce
Thank you ❤️
I am so looking forward to explore Europe..last time missed east Europe..esp poland is top of my list..
Poland is amazing! I'm sure you'll love visiting there. We've made a lot of videos around the country if you'd like to see more: bit.ly/PolandPlaylist :)
Ja mieszkam w Toruniu! // I from Toruń!
Fantastic city.
Thanks for video.
In general , masses of pigeons are nuisance.However, if we have a close look at an individual bird they are pretty cute.
And the scene with pigeons drinking from the frog's mouth is just awesome.
they were so cute at the fountain!
You guys are delivering the Poland video beautifully.
Background music a lil bit cover your voices at several moments.
oh man you are lovely couple!! so good watching you :D
Hello from Toruń! ❤
Hello :)
Gettings from Toruń!!
Hello! 👋
I know this city, a great movie👍👍👍
Thanks! :) When were you in Toruń?
I'm from Poland from Toruń and i know all these places haha, love your video 🤗
Thank you! That's awesome :)
@@EileenAldis ♥️
Thank you so much for the video. I am heading to Toruń today so excited! ✌️
Oh wow, that’s wonderful! Have an amazing time!
What can I say... Welcome to my home city. ))
greetings from Toruń!
Hello :)
Really your knowledge about Toruń is impressive. Even me(I’m Polish)don’t know as much about that city as you know. Respect😉👍
Thank you for the tour. Great job and I love the local stories you tell. It's always good to have context to what you see.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Another amazingly informative video. Great job and thanks again for sharing it with us.
Thank you! Lots of great stories in this city :)
Torun beautiful city, near toruń is a city Chełmno that stands on perhaps nine hills, to the wheels of the city there are walls. Beautiful city
My home town...
Best wishes from Toruń ❤
Thank you :)
Love your attitude - always smiling and full of positive energy. I used to study and run a business there. Great city, great memories...
Thanks so much! That's great you used to live in this beautiful city :)
Really enjoyed your presentation and humour thank you. I'm hoping to go there next week and with any luck will get some nice photos, including the pigeons drinking. Mxx
Hi Margaret! Thanks so much - I'm delighted you enjoyed the video and that's wonderful you're heading to beautiful Toruń. Remember to try some of that famous gingerbread too 😘
Świetny film. Dzięki wam poznaje swój kraj :).
❤️ from 🇵🇱:)
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You both are amazing 😘 Toruń is great 🧚♀️
It is! We loved visiting :)
Hello 👋👋👋Toruń is very nice City 👍👍👍Have a nice weekend 🙂🙂🙂
Thanks! You too :)
if you like plums you need to try "powidła" its polish jam made of plums . the best with fresh bread for breakfast. This is one of the kind local jam very popular in Poland
mmm sounds delicious!
@@EileenAldis it's really good. you can buy POWIDŁA in every grocery store in Poland and its very cheap we use this to everything from cakes to soups
@@EileenAldis but first try this with fresh bread and butter ;)
We're obsessed with plums ;) We have many orchards with plums. We make jams and drinks from them ... And we also make something like jam "powidła śliwkowe", but they are less sweet and more durable. Plums are very healthy, have a lot of natural fiber. You can't eat them too much because you may have stomach problems.
I was very happy to be there during plum season! So delicious :)
I really like you like your videos. I like that you tell some stories and spread knowledge about a given place. You do it in such interesting way, and with wonderful smile :) My only wish is for you to describe food, mainly if it taste good or not, and what you think about it. For example, did you enjoy ginger bread? Anyway, i love your vlog, so keep up the good work. :)
If you don't like gingerbread you don't like life.
gingerbread remainds everybody Christmas.
Hello
I am from Toruń but I live in Ireland. You are a nice couple and I am very pleased that you visited my city
Kompot with plums can be done two ways - fresh or dried plums. Dried plums gives a really diffrent taste.
Thank you for all these great stories, I feel like I learned a lot LOL
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Yeah you did a great job, it seems like there's a lot of research that goes behind this. Well done. I make different types of vlogs, if you have a second you should check them out!@@EileenAldis
i loved Torun miss it beautiful. Went to the blind attraction across from the gingerbread factory one of two. Just Amazing
This is the best video about Toruń 💋
Thanks so much! :)
This is my city :) Dziękuję :)
Mieszkam w Toruniu, pozdrawiam;)))
I live in beautiful old Wroclaw, but Torun has its unique atmosphere.
The whole world is open to such unusual "American" tourists - sensitive, friendly and interesting.
I would especially build for you many such old historic buildings and come up with new authentic national dishes. Not plastic, of course.
Very pleasantly, that you tour Toruń. I am happy, that Toruń pleases You.
This my city, I be bore here and I live here. I live near town hall.
They lived here my, great grandfathers, grandfathers and parents.
I be please very, that you can see how our ancestors lived.
My grandfather was the cofounder and the joint owner of factory of gingerbreads.
You taste these gingerbreads which just. Toruń this my sweethearts city and I gladden
oneself, that you play so well and you feel in Toruniu. I greet warmly : Raymond de SP2EEF.
I love that place 💛💛💛💛 So mutch and yes the leaning tower is very very famous :) I’m happy you like it 🥰🥰 Thank you 😊 the pierniki (Ginger bread) are amazingly good. And each year we have a festival which celebrates Festival of Lights 💝👻 Next time go and visit “Pierogarnia” Please :)
We'd love to come back and explore more - that festival sounds lovely :)
@@EileenAldis Yeah, that's Bella Skyway Festival (these lights)
hmmm "Katarzynki" my favs all the timee
Knedle with plums are my fave.
yummmm
For the past 600 years there has been a big rivalry between Toruń and Bydgoszcz. Because these cities are not far apart, only one of them is shown on the map of Poland during a weather forecast on national TV. When they show either one, they upset the other.
They Upset 3rd city as well, which history is as old as Torun.
@@bullet1544 Which one?
@@Martin46869 Wloclawek, but there is nothing to see, coz of war
@@bullet1544 So, there is another old city (1299) - Nakło nad Notecią 30km west from Bydgoszcz but today is just small city. When you look at maps from 1000 years ago there is no Toruń or Bydgoszcz only Nakło which at first was key Pomeranian city to protect south border. This city has no access to Vistula river, so I guess because of that remained small.
@@Martin46869 I agree with you. But still Wloclawek is the oldest.
Thank you for this video 😍😍. You depicted my hometown beautifully. I don't have many occasions to visit it, so I miss it dearly. Also it was wonderful to see it from perspective of an outsider because I was used to its beauty, so it was kind of wasted on me 😁😁. Moreover, it put my architectural beauty reception bar very high and I have some problems enjoying other cities - they all look ugly in comparison. Fortunately I found my place in Edinburgh which is in many aspects similar to Torun (including the fact of being on UNESCO list).
Thank you for your lovely comment! It means a lot knowing it's your hometown. What a beautiful place to grow up. I can see how you'd become accustomed to beauty and great architecture :) Glad you've found a new home you love in Edinburgh. Do you go back to Poland often? We've made a bunch of other videos there if you'd like to see more: bit.ly/PolandPlaylist Would also love to hear any recommendations you have.
nice one guys!:) can't wait to go back to my city after 16 years. torun here i come! (back)
Oh wow, that's awesome! Hope it's a great homecoming :)
@@EileenAldis being in my city right now.just for a while. lil' taste before my come back:)
very nice video
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it :)
I live in Toruń 😆
I love Toruń
Same 💕
Great historical place -bit like York which I used to live near in England- a plum dish how about plum duff-love gingerbread men in the shops in England around Bonfire Night
I've been to York once! It was so pretty!
Oh, I'm so happy you've seen Toruń, it's one of the most beautiful Polish towns!
Haha, the hearts and rings version is actually more realistic because the traditional gingerbread dough doesn't grow at all during baking, so no matter how close you put the cookies together they wouldn't become one :) Have you seen the wooden moulds in the museum (I believe they were at -1 floor)? What would be the point of carving such intricate shapes if the dough was to expand? All the details would disappear! And sorry to break it to you, but Katarzynki is the closest you can get to the real thing from big brands today, not the sugar-glazed hearts :) As a culinary geek and a Pole I am appalled by what people dare to call a gingerbread these days :P
Torun it's my town ❤
I live in Toruń 🙌🏻
My dad's home town, Shame we see just you two and not enough of the town. I was last there in 1967. I do not like these videos that say they are going to show this town or city, and this place, but all we see is their faces. Shame as it is a great city. My dad was taken from this city by the germans in WW2, he was a teenager and was put into a labour camp.
Toruń's Town Hall should hire you both in promotion department...👍😃
haha hey we like that idea! ;)
Record your laughter! I will use it as an alarm clock every morning.
hahah I hope that's because you think it'd be nice to wake up to and not because it's grating like a normal alarm clock ;)
My from polad toruń
Jestem z Torunia
Tez
Też😎👍😀
One fact. The tower with toilet in medieval castles in polish language - gdanisko :) Greetings from Bory Tucholskie :)
Hello and thanks for sharing that! 😄
Pigeons, "These kids are loving them too" as one of the kids in the background kicks at one of them .😂
Hahah oh dear, poor pigeon 😂
Thorn
O jak miło
Mieszkam w Toruniu
I must admit, had a laugh with you guys :)
The pigeon didn't eat kielbasa but kabanos :D Also you did a lousy job cutting out a kid trying to kick the pigeon just after saying that kids love them too :D:D:D
As for the Tower Toilet, who wouldn't want it to themselves?! :D Imagine having a Tower Toilet, how cool is that? :D
Wroclaw, Gdansk, Krakow those are the best places to visit in Poland. Also probably you'll be visiting soon as you're close by - Malbork castle
ps. holy music when going outside to the balcony... hah :D
thanks
I love, love, love your videos!
I’ve noticed that you have switched from Airbnb’s to hotels. Is there a reason for that? Do you like hotels better or are there no Airbnb’s in Poland?
Thanks, Jane! So glad to hear that! This part of the trip was a press trip (you might remember that from our first video in Warsaw!) and those are generally booked in hotels. We like to mix it up between hotels, Airbnbs, and hostels. There are definitely Airbnbs in Poland and we'll share a cool one we stayed at in Krakow in our next video. Also, our Wrocław video shows an Airbnb there. It's in this playlist if you want to check it out: bit.ly/PolandPlaylist :)
Eileen Aldis Thanks for the response! I guess it makes total sense that you would stay in hotels instead of Airbnb’s for a press trip. Can’t wait to see where you go next 😊