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<div>In Torun in the summer of 1969, Marek Piwowski was shooting the iconic film The Cruise on the Vistula River waterfront in Torun. Back then there was no fortified wharf in the form of Philadelphia Boulevard. In the place where the filmmakers set up then, there is now a plaque informing of this fact, and the wall reinforcing the wharf is covered with a mural with quotes from memorable dialogues.&nbsp;</div>

Rejs - Cruise

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Tennis

Andrzej Poprostu

<div>The work refers to the motif of the medieval dance of death - the dance macabre. The mural depicts a procession, headed by a raftsman symbolizing death. Right behind him follow a fisherman, a whisperer, a monk with a pig's snout, a jester, a townswoman and Nicolaus Copernicus.</div>

Danse macabre

Na Kreskę

<div>It is a short (about 110 meters) and narrow street on the outskirts of the New Town. At the same time, it is neglected, inspiring a sense of fear, often filled with garbage, abandoned old furnishings and, of course, dog poop. However, it undeniably has its own charm and ambience. Tourists don't often come here, which is a pity, because it is on Zaszpitalna that you can see and feel the hardcore hooligan folklore of the UNESCO World Heritage district of Toruń. &nbsp;</div><div>Under such circumstances, a mural with the slogan "urban jungle" next to the orher mural - Super Mario.&nbsp;</div>

Urban Jungle

<div>The title Carolina is a fit woman who practices various forms of exercise and sports in each of the 4 seasons.</div>

Karolina

<div>The painting shows a plan of Toruń according to Matthäus Merian from his work "Teatrum Europaeum", 1652. It is accompanied by a small excerpt from Zbigniew Herbert's poem "Three Poems from Memory":&nbsp;</div><div>...The city stands over water as smooth as the memory of a mirror....</div><div>While this refers to Troy, it is unclear whether this metaphor was not created by Herbert during his studies at the University of Torun.</div>

Torun city map from 1652

<div>The mural commemorates an interwar Polish Army squadron that was part of the 3rd Fighter Squadron of the 4th Aviation Regiment in Torun. In the September campaign of 1939 it fought as part of the aviation of the "Pomerania" Army.</div><div>The mural depicts a Polish PZL P.11c fighter plane, one of 10 included in the squadron in Torun. During the first days of World War II and the German attack on Poland, the pilots of the squadron fought against the enemy shooting down, among others, 12 bombers between September 2 and 6, 1939. Lt. Stanislaw Skalski particularly distinguished himself here by downing as many as 5 German aircraft.</div><div>Later, in 1940, he fought in the 501st Fighter Squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain.</div><div>In February 1941 he was transferred to the Polish "Torun" 306 Squadron, performing combat flights over occupied Europe during this period. In the spring of 1941, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Polish Armed Forces and to the rank of lieutenant, followed by the rank of captain in the RAF in July 1941.&nbsp;</div>

Polish Army Squadron 142.

<div>The walls were covered with paintings in a comic, grotesque convention, illustrating a cross-section of the neighborhood's society and the daily life of its residents.</div>

Daily life scenes

Nerds

<div>It is a short (about 110 meters) and narrow street on the outskirts of the New Town. At the same time, it is neglected, inspiring a sense of fear, often filled with garbage, abandoned old furnishings and, of course, dog poop. However, it undeniably has its own charm and ambience. Tourists don't often come here, which is a pity, because it is on Zaszpitalna that you can see and feel the hardcore hooligan folklore of the UNESCO World Heritage district of Toruń. &nbsp;</div><div>Under such circumstances, a mural with the slogan "urban jungle" and "Super Mario" was created along a significant part of the street (about 70 m).</div>

Super Mario

Iwona Liegmann

<div>Illustrations for the poem "Memory of the Netherlands" by Hendrik Marsman and translated into Polish according to Jerzy Koch.</div><div>It was created on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the signing of a partnership agreement between Torun and the Dutch city of Leiden.</div>

Heinnering aan Holland

<div>This is the oldest mural in the Skarpa neighborhood, created in 2010 as part of the Skyway International Festival of Light.</div><div>Author Marcin Chylinski presented the relationship between Pluto and its moon. This project is an attempt to illustrate the relationship that exists between Pluto - the last "planet" of the Solar System - and its moon, Charon. Unusual for the Solar System, the behavior of these two objects resembles a double planet more than a typical planet-moon relationship. Pluto and Charon, rotating on their own axis, are perpetually facing each other on the same side. This fascinating phenomenon resembles a galactic dialogue between two phenomena traversing the ends of the solar system.</div>

Moon mural

<div>Commissioned by the City Council in 2010. On the fence wall of the former Kurk Fraternity house at 11/15 Przedzamcze Street in the Old Town, scenes relating to medieval Toruń are depicted. So we have city towers (in one of them a romantic and fabulous motif of an imprisoned princess), knights, alluring townsfolk, musicians, two knights feasting at a table, elsewhere the Vistula River flows with merchant ships to the port of Toruń, further on St. George fights a dragon. All of this is united by floral tendrils, herbs and roses, as well as vines appearing here and there.</div>

Medieval city scenes

<div>Fairytale inspired art placed on a primary and secondary school in Torun</div>

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