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i probably shall check in, takes us to see some of the cultural highlights and cracow. paula, i am eddie micah junior. thanks for being with states you in for more news. for the top of the, the, the independent, arrived to our society is full of contrasts and inequality is a big challenge. many problems can only be solved by working together. yes, i think i pretend isn't misleading. what is home? how do we tackle the major issues about time? talk about the system if there is
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a significant risk of human extinction from advancing our system. our series continues d, w. welcome . so could i go visit as poland, 2nd largest city and a really popular tourist destination? it lies in the south of poland and has a long and fascinating history with some netscape sites that will take your breath away. i think it's one of my favorites. i'm really excited to say this for with you today and show you around some of the most gorgeous historic places in cockle pay some local delicacies and see the city through a fresh set of eyes. with my lovely assistant you. this is his 1st time in crackles . how are you enjoying it? a bit. jorge think he's lilian using getting a lot of trees. ask any pole, and they'll probably tell you that crackle is the cultural heart of the country.
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seat of many publish kings. hope to artist, craftsman and scientists throughout the ages. today, i'll take you to a local market will visit my favorite neighborhood. i'll tell you a local legend, and of course that will be food as a bonus. let's see how doug from the cloud to really is with the help of the office stop is looking for the famous cloth market goal. just building in the heart of the city, built in the renaissance style for most polish people. so can, is a, is a real architectural icon. we all know where it is. we all know what it is. we all know what it looks like, but we don't all know the full history of it. so the cloth market actually originated about 750 years ago. the imagine is here sending cloth and fabric and textiles over 7 centuries ago. of course, the market didn't look as spectacular as it does today. it was just instead of wood
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and shack, but if you think about it, the fact that it has this continuous history is just astonishing. and today it's really one of the coolest places in cockles. sure, it's a bit touristy. yeah. but it has that atmosphere that really takes you back in time . all right, so pulling readings famous for amber and all kinds of beautiful on the cross and jewelry. and especially here and so can needs a, this is probably the one souvenir that you could get in poland that is traditional and authentic. so i might actually get a rosary. so my grandma is going to be so happy. okay, so check this out. if you get real and that you should also get a little certificates of origin and guarantee of origin and just to certify that this is in fact the real thing and not just plastic cited a lot of the most beautiful cities in europe for good reason. and it's old town and the bible castle,
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have it included among the unesco world heritage site. since 1978, it's really popular among tourist and even don't love it. but if you're a human and in need of a snack, i got you covered. if it comes across and you're on a budget, you'll want to try these. these are the classics crackle. all these on that. it's kind of like a rental is very, very simple. usually comes with some kind of topping this one is a sold stopping, but you can also get them with cheese or was prophesied. and it's usually just a lovely and simple, quick little ready snack. the best time you want to try one, try a little bit. no, no, i don't think he likes it. the world of me. earliest historic records speak of crackles in the 10th century as a city of trade and culture across roads for merchants and travelers. for over 500
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years. it was also poland, capital city, home to kings, and carnations. and of course, the famous bible castle. scientists have found remnants of protective walls and residential buildings. he had dating back to the 11th century a 1000 years ago. but the castle destroyed, burned down, pillaged and rebuilt again many, many times throughout the ages. vazo also occupies a very important role in the imagination of many poets children. here's why we're going to sit down and take a little break and part of the same as the apple of castle. and i'm going to take a moment to tell you guys the story. so when i was a little kid, my grandma always has to tell me that if i was no tea, she would send me the cockle so that i would get eaten by the driving. so once upon a time, the people of crackles lift happily in wealth and prosperity bots. suddenly, one day, a dragoon came into town and decided to make his den right here under the castle
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that made everybody unhappy and fearful. so naturally the king decided to look for a knights who would come in and slay the dragon. but no matter how many nights tried to slay the dragon, nobody managed it. until one day the king go to visit from a little shoemaker. so what zillow sure making did was he got a sheep skin, he put some silver and he put some 5 style to inside the sheep skin and he left it just outside of the drag. and then so the next morning when the dragon came out to have his breakfast, he thought, oh, perfect, a sheep. he ate the sheep and the bias started inside his belly. so he flew straight into the river and he started drinking from the river and drag. so much water to try and put out the fire and his belly that he eventually exploded. and that is how the little shoemaker slaves the dragon of the bible castle. well, now that you've had, i'll give you the most fomented legend in the polar psyche. let's move on to our
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next destination. from the bible castle, you can take a nice and relax, stroll along the same river. the dragon drank from the vista. this is the longest river in poland and it runs through some of the country's best known cities crackles, of course, but also were so good that after 15 minutes and a couple of twins of data we 10 of inland again to the neighborhood of caching is because he is probably my favorite neighborhood in all of poland, so it's actually the old historic jewish label. it was the heart of the local jewish community for 500 years. and one of the most important incentives, the jewish culture in all of this. and is the dissertation extermination of cotton jews by the during the 2nd the story of talk of jews and their tragic fate is shown in the movie sions as this some of which was filmed on these very st. there's a lot of history here. a lot of hidden corn is really beautiful architecture,
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but today i would say that cuz you know, she has less than the for how do you see, you know, you can kind of walk around here and get lost, find to middle hit and cassie's lovely boutiques and great restaurants that we're going to take a little tour and then we're going to finish off with neil. and one of my favorite restaurants in the entire city is go so i, one of the things that i've noticed about so far is that pretty much every single place has been to, has been really dog friendly, which just makes it so much easier to travel with a dog. oh good. you think we ever got some water? thank on the
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take these out. if you have a dog, you'll understand how i feel right now. oh my god. oh my god. yeah. gorgeous. it's so beautiful. and i good the oh my gosh. yeah. i think that's the us before we go to the now let me show you were people from crackles by fresh ingredients. every day. the old plush market has been around since the 14th century. it's been destroyed and rebuilt twice close to during the nazi occupation and modernized again after the war service. here is the static leverage market. it's really hard to find like a direct translation for the name, but lose to be translated. perhaps you could call it the old bog and market, and it is the longest continues to the operating market in all of crap. i mean, it was here 600 years ago or not quite in this phone, but people used to come here to be their groceries 6 centuries ago. can you imagine?
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i would check this out. this is the oaks favorite corner of the entire market. this is all, don't you treat you want something? what do you want? huh. you can have anything. how about this one? yeah. oh, yeah. okay. okay. yeah, we have to pay for it, you know, ready to go. so the cool thing is that this market is not just the tories to give a cry. this is the real deal with people who live and cannot go actually come has to do the shopping. and they really wonderful thing is that you can find. 2 much organic, local goodness, like static lab gosh, i know, prides itself on. so as a read is and food from some of the best supply is around, just you can see it and just the beauty of everything that kids smells so good. it looks so fresh. kind of makes me wish that i could live in track of just i could come do my grocery shopping to now that we've seen where the people could,
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i could get their fresh produce. it's time to enjoy some of it as well. that's the cause. yes. for some amazing middle eastern food. so there's a lot of really, really great restaurants here and cause you mess with, you know, anything from traditional jewish foods, to modern polish grieving. but the restaurant we're going to go to tonight is quite possibly one of my favorite restaurants in all of poland and it serves really amazing middle eastern food with great, big and budgetary options. so as long as i don't get run over by one of these things are going to go and have dinner. i am so excited. so what i love about eating out and continuous especially is that in this strange mix of 2 things. so on the one hand you've got this like contemporary, organic, healthy cuisine and on the other, you got this really amazing sense of history. you know,
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we're sitting here between these ation brick walls. and there's really a sense that this place has been around for a very, very long time. the, oh my god, check this out. this is the most amazing some a lot to so many colors. so many different flavors. okay. recognition again. all right, let's get into this. i think this is probably over jean hayes. all right, on this, brad. it's home and fresh. all right. i'm going to try and see what this is. i think this is the. c goes cheese. joe is out beautiful trash when she's in my daughter's mouth and your
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mouth. all right, let's try some of this from us. so i think this is just for us with some possibly pomegranate see, and high not that's, that's an interesting combination of the homeless is self cleaning. and so through the final learning season, the positive would just add this bus a fresh neva. oh my god, what a combination yes . this a good boy. i think the,
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you know, honestly i came out, hit the crack of today to kind of see whether my memory of the city from a few years back still matches up to the reality of what crack of is like today. and obviously i love it just as much as, as it is just such a great place to. ready there's so much soul and, and history of coach, uh, and you see around every single corner. if someone were to ask me, hey, what can you recommend me one place to visit in poland, only one. i would probably tell them to come and visit cox. i love it here. it's really, wes, checking out you guys the
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