Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Toruń

Toruń began as a Teutonic Order settlement on the Vistula, became a wealthy Hanseatic merchant city and produced Nicolaus Copernicus in 1473. Its brick churches, town hall, warehouses and ruined castle show how military colonisation and urban commerce interacted. This guide places Copernicus back inside the late-medieval trading world that educated and financed his family.