Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide © 2025 | This one-hour "best of Poland" special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle, and nearby, communist-era Nowa Huta and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial. Then we head to bustling Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Toruń, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle. We finish in Gdańsk with handsome Hanseatic townhouses and stirring Solidarity history.

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00:00 Introduction to Poland
02:27 Kraków
10:59 Vodka and Traditional Cuisine
15:40 Wawel Hill and Its Heritage
19:38 Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
24:24 Nowa Huta and Communist History
27:45 Food Market and Making Pierogi
29:49 Jewish Quarter, Kazimierz
30:48 Warsaw
35:00 Chopin in the Park
36:02 Jewish History and Uprising
39:07 Warsaw Today
40:43 Toruń
41:35 Gingerbread Museum
42:45 Malbork Castle
44:24 Gdańsk
50:54 The Rise of Solidarity
53:25 Gdańsk Today

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