Bydgoszcz

Bydgoszcz is a town in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers. With a city population of 358,614, and an city agglomeration with extra than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the 8^th largest city in Poland. It has been the seat of Bydgoszcz County and the co-capital, with Torun, of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship considering that 1999. Prior to this, between 1947 and 1998, it was the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship, and earlier than that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship between 1945 and 1947.

The town is part of the Bydgoszcz–Torun metropolitan location, which totals over 850,000 population. Bydgoszcz is the seat of Casimir the Great University, University of Technology and Life Sciences and a conservatory, in addition to the Medical College of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. It also hosts the Pomeranian Philharmonic concert hall, the Opera Nova opera house, and Bydgoszcz Airport.

Due to its area between the Vistula and Oder rivers, and the water direction of the Bydgoszcz Canal, the city forms part of a water system linked through the Notec, Warta and Elbe with the Rhine and Rotterdam. Bydgoszcz is an architecturally wealthy town, with neo-gothic, neo-baroque, neoclassicist, modernist and Art Nouveau styles present, for which it earned a nickname Little Berlin. The first rate granaries on Mill Island and alongside the riverside belong to one of the maximum identified timber-framed landmarks in Poland.