Poland's controversial 'Highway to Hel' 666 bus revived

Coach relation FlixBus has announced the instrumentality of the 666 autobus work to the Polish seaside edifice of Hel.

It resurrects the arguable alleged "Highway to Hel" autobus travel formerly tally by section institution PKS Gdynia.

Religious blimpish groups fiercely opposed the "satanic" relation of 666 with Hel, truthful successful 2023 the fig was changed to 669.

The caller 13-hour way tally by FlixBus volition link Kraków to Hel, passing done different large Polish determination towns and cities including the superior Warsaw.

FlixBus spokesperson Aleksander Kalenik told the Polish quality work TVN24: "The fig 666 was deliberately chosen arsenic a selling connection element, intended to summation the visibility of the transportation connected the fashionable vacation way to Hel."

Back successful June 2023 a PKS Gdynia spokesperson had told media: "The absorption committee buckled nether the value of letters and requests that were sent to us, possibly not successful ample numbers, but periodically for galore years with a petition to alteration the enactment number."

One Polish spiritual radical had accused the autobus institution of "spreading satanism".

The Bible identifies 666 arsenic the "number of the beast" and Hel is conscionable 1 "l" abbreviated of the English connection "hell".

Poland is simply a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, wherever the Church has traditionally been influential.

Hel is located connected the extremity of the 22-mile (35km) Hel Peninsula, which juts disconnected the bluish seashore of Poland successful the Gulf of Gdańsk.

Tourists person been drawn to Hel's sandy beaches, past architecture and seal sanctuary.