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Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg) is a major city of 360,000 in Poland and with the suburban area, the agglomeration has nearly 500,000. It has well-preserved 19th-century architecture and was known as Little Berlin before the world wars. Nicely located along the Brda river it offers many green areas, intriguing museums, and a music scene with a famous Concert Hall – Filharmonia Pomorska, opera house – Opera Nova, and the Paderewski Academy of Music. Bydgoszcz is also an important center of higher education being the seat of Casimir the Great University, the University of Technology and Life Sciences, the Academy of Music as well as a Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and several private institutes. It is also an important center for athletics and water sports.
Together with the city of Toruń, they share the duties of the capital city of Kujawsko-Pomorskie province, being the seat of voivode (governor). The two cities, only 45 km apart, form a metropolitan area of over 850,000.
Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. It is at the crossroads of two historic regions: Pomerania and Kuyavia.
With a city population of 344,091 (December 2020), and an urban agglomeration with more than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the eighth-largest city in Poland. It has been the seat of Bydgoszcz County and the co-capital, with Toruń, of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999. Prior to this, between 1947 and 1998, it was the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship, and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship between 1945 and 1947.
The city is part of the Bydgoszcz–Toruń metropolitan area, which totals over 850,000 inhabitants. Bydgoszcz is the seat of Casimir the Great University, University of Technology and Life Sciences and a conservatory, as well as the prestigious Medical College of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It also hosts the Pomeranian Philharmonic concert hall, the Opera Nova opera house, and Bydgoszcz Airport. Being between the Vistula and Oder (Odra in Polish) rivers, and by the Bydgoszcz Canal, the city is connected via the Noteć, Warta, the Elbe, and German canals with the Rhine, a river linked to the Mediterranean and Black Seas by canals and flowing into the North Sea.
Bydgoszcz is an architecturally rich city, with gothic, neo-gothic, neo-baroque, neoclassicist, modernist and Art Nouveau styles present, for which it has earned the nickname of Little Berlin. The notable granaries on Mill Island and along the riverside belong to one of the most recognized timber-framed landmarks in Poland.