{"id":93470,"date":"2026-09-20T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/inside-the-polish-festival-where-19-year-olds-take-over-their-city-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:43:55","slug":"inside-the-polish-festival-where-19-year-olds-take-over-their-city-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/inside-the-polish-festival-where-19-year-olds-take-over-their-city-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Polish festival where 19-year-olds take over their city | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filled with fireworks and flare guns &#8211; Jastarnicka Sob\u00f3tka is part folklore festival, part rite of passage, and the town\u2019s <!--more--> 19-year-olds take centre stage. Their costumes reflect local maritime and piracy folklore, and the climax of the night is a unique fire lighting ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The Travel Show&#8217;s Reece Parkinson has been travelling across Poland&#8217;s Baltic Coast to see if it could become Europe&#8217;s new alternative to a summer in the resorts of the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch &#8216;Poland: Europe&#8217;s Next Riviera?&#8217; on the BBC News Channel and on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filled with fireworks and flare guns &#8211; Jastarnicka Sob\u00f3tka is part folklore festival, part rite of passage, and the town\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}