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Hidden Stories

Hidden Stories start with a place, building, monument or landscape and look for the larger story behind it. The focus is not the trip itself, but understanding why that place became what it is today. These posts often connect a single location with wider changes in politics, religion, society, transport, war, ownership or the development of a town or neighbourhood.

  • Skra: Running Inside an Old Warsaw Stadium

    I went to Skra for running training and found a stadium that’s still alive in a strange way: a usable track, fenced old stands, archive layers, and a new sports hall rising nearby. I checked the history of the place and found Warszawianka before Skra, speedway after the war, the tartan era of Polish athletics,…