While the people of Poznań are eager to claim their city as Poland’s first capital anyone with a passing knowledge of history will identify this as a fib. That title belongs to Gniezno, a picturesque town lying 50km east of Poz. Of all the towns, villages and cities in Poland nowhere is more synonymous with the foundation of the Polish state than Gniezno. Although the 'City Of Kings' was eventually shifted to Kraków and then Warsaw, Gniezno remained an important centre of worship and to this day is still regarded as Poland’s ecclesiastical capital. For the visitor it is an intriguing town full of spires and cobbles, a superb medicine to the frantic flap of urban Poland.
