Inside the Polish festival where 19-year-olds take over their city | BBC News

Filled with fireworks and flare guns – Jastarnicka Sobótka is part folklore festival, part rite of passage, and the town’s 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.

The Travel Show’s Reece Parkinson has been travelling across Poland’s Baltic Coast to see if it could become Europe’s new alternative to a summer in the resorts of the Mediterranean.

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