Uploaded May 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
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Easily spotted from across the river in Old Town the new National Stadium has room for 58,000 fans and 860 journalists, while the construction itself, with its red and white covering, was built using hundreds of 45-metre support pillars driven into the ground to stabilise the 25 metres of war rubble the stadium finds itself atop. Priced at 1.2 billion PLN history buffs will note that the Socialist era 'Relay' statue at the entrance has been preserved in a nod to the site's past heritage -- it was here that stood the Stadion Dziesięciolecia (10th Anniversary Stadium), built in the 1950s to mark the anniversary of the end of WWII. This was also the site where, on September 8, 1968 in front of 100,000 people, Ryszard Siwiec set himself alight in protest at the Soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Nearly 50 years on this new National Stadium is a shining example of how far Poland has come since those dark days and the nation will be hoping to mark a more positive moment in its history when the tournament kicks off here on June 8.
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Easily spotted from across the river in Old Town the new National Stadium has room for 58,000 fans and 860 journalists, while the construction itself, with its red and white covering, was built using hundreds of 45-metre support pillars driven into the ground to stabilise the 25 metres of war rubble the stadium finds itself atop. Priced at 1.2 billion PLN history buffs will note that the Socialist era 'Relay' statue at the entrance has been preserved in a nod to the site's past heritage -- it was here that stood the Stadion Dziesięciolecia (10th Anniversary Stadium), built in the 1950s to mark the anniversary of the end of WWII. This was also the site where, on September 8, 1968 in front of 100,000 people, Ryszard Siwiec set himself alight in protest at the Soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Nearly 50 years on this new National Stadium is a shining example of how far Poland has come since those dark days and the nation will be hoping to mark a more positive moment in its history when the tournament kicks off here on June 8.
