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One Of The World's Most Beautiful Malls Is In Poland (Walking Tour)

What if I was to tell you that one of the most beautiful malls in the world is here in Western Poland? All of this and more will be shown and answered here in this Poland walking tour of one of the world’s most beautiful malls… The “Stary Browar”… Stary Browar… quite unsurprisingly it’s a Polish phrase. For anyone who’s been to Poland there’s a slight hint in the word stary… As in, “Stary Miesto”… The Old Town, almost every major Polish city has one. And Browar… that second word. Browar? Browar is a brewery, yes is this an old brewery. Anyway the Stary Browar is indeed an old brewery dating back to1876, converted into a mall in 2003, and expanded to nearly twice the former size in 2007. It’s home to around 210 stores and restaurants covering a total area of 130,000 square meters, or 1.4 million square feet for our American viewers. Now the first thing to note is the relationship between the brick and the sloping steel and glass. Indeed, as we walk through here one of the most fascinating aspects of the space is the mix of the modern with the antique, if you will. The designers of the Stary Browar were acutely aware of this, and some of these stylistic choices were meant to represent the interaction of art and commerce in visual form. Certainly, the old expression that architecture is just “frozen music” applies here. Most of the stores here are what you’d expect from a mall, we saw Guess clothing earlier. Most of the higher end stores are in old town down the road a bit. Although you’d think the most well known cities like Krakow and of course Warsaw are synonymous with high end stores… Poznan is stereotypically known within Poland as a “money town”. said both negatively and positively. The negative stereotype is that people from Poznan are “tight with their money”. There are many jokes that someone from Poznan’s wallet will suddenly disappear when the bill comes… The positive stereotype is that people from Poznan are good at business, very organized, financially shrewd, etc. With that in mind it’s not surprising that there are high end stores in the old town. The Stary Browar itself is about an 8-10 minute walk from the train station in Poznan. Trains there can take you to and from Berlin, Warsaw, Wroclaw, etc. Another 5-8 minute walk through this park leads you to the Rynek, or market in the center of The Old Town of Poznan. We’ll have future tours of that area as well. Poznan is nicely situated on a river. There’s a beautiful long well kept waterfront park you can relax on, and of course there is the Old Town, which I would say is the best preserved Rynek I’ve seen in Poland. To be fair, saying that may get me excommunicated from from many Polish cities. —————— 0:00 Introduction and History 1:50 Entering The Stary Browar 3:32 The First Atrium 4:43 The Second Atrium 5:21 Poznan Travel Commentary 6:30 Polish Industrial Architecture History 8:14 Walking Outro —————- Let us know your thoughts on the architectural beauty of the Stary Browar and Poznan overall, and comment below with what you’d like to see next.