Poznań Cathedral
Poznań's cathedral stands on Ostrów Tumski, between the Warta and Cybina river channels. The cathedral history dates the first cathedral church on this site to 968. A Romanesque successor was later replaced by a Gothic cathedral built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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Poznań's cathedral stands on Ostrów Tumski, between the Warta and Cybina river channels. The cathedral history dates the first cathedral church on this site to 968. A Romanesque successor was later replaced by a Gothic cathedral built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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- Poland
Editorial reading
Editorial interpretation: Reading the site through successive churches helps distinguish the continuity of location from the dates of particular buildings. This approach makes room for archaeological history without treating every surviving element as equally old.
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