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08 Szczecin
Trasa Zamkowa is a fast road that links two parts of the city over the river Oder.
Second World War is a loose variation on the Central European Renaissance. A stone’s throw from it is a place where the future empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, née Sophia Anhalt zu Zerbst, was born in 1729. A few blocks away you will find a copy of Verrocchio’s Venetian monument of the condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni. It was erected in the middle of a roundabout that is one of the hubs of the city’s radial street structure, modelled after Haussman’s plan for Paris (the beauty of Szczecin’s radial plan can be best appreciated from the top floor of the city’s tallest building – the Pazim Tower). If you realise that – as a sea port – Szczecin has always accepted people and goods from abroad and that – as the nearest large city – it is a natural destination for German shoppers, everything starts to make sense.