wanderings on poland (13a)

Beauty is our entire Poland

Warszawa - Teatr Wielki

Hala Stulecia, pergola i multimedialna fontanna

This voivodeship is located in the southwest of the country, covers a large part of historical Silesia (Lower Silesia) and the eastern Lusatia.

Lower Silesia is one of the most economically developed regions of the country.Wroclaw is the capital of the province - a city of over a hundred bridges and churches,

26 parks and many of historic sites. It is a city of young people - one third of the over 600 thousand Wroclaw residents are students of ten public and many private universities.

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Wrocław - seen from the air

Wrocław – Old Town, surrounded by the moat

Wrocław - Cathedral Island

Church of Sts. Giles - in the vicinity of the Cathedral of Wroclawis the oldest (the first half of the thirteenth century), a full preserved building in Wroclaw

Romanesque style is also represented by the Saint Martin church,in the western part of the Cathedral Island, during the war destroyed in 80%

Gothic Catedral of St John the Baptist

... and the Gothic Town Hall

Hansel and Gretel - two twin houses on Wroclaw's Market Square

Przejście Garncarskie and Renaissance houses

Renaissance houses in the Przejście Garncarskie street

In a beautiful Leśnicki Park there is a baroque Leśnicki Castle

Spätgens Baroque palace, the seat of the Prussian kings since 1750

Spätgen Palace from the Baroque garden side

Wroclaw Opera House - Neo-Classicism

Secession of Wroclaw - in the Rzeznicza street

The corner of streets - Rzeznicza and St. Nicholas

Former Barasch Brothers department store today Phoenix Gallery

Historicism in architecture is represented by this building in Pilsudski street

Modernist Centennial Hal

Hala Stulecia (Centennial Hal) – built in the years 1911-1913

Wroclaws Spire - the characteristic, height of 96m, steel mast, erected in 1948 on the occasion

of the Exhibition Regained Territories

The interior of the Centennial Hall

Modernist, post-war buildings of Grunwald Square

Building of Wroclaw Technical University on the Wyspianski Coast

Postmodern - Bema Center

Office building on the Lvov Eaglets square

Grunwald Center

The former and new Wroclawpost-modern multiplex and historic building of the University Library

Meeting the past with the presentIn the mirrored walls the Dominican's Gallery you can seen an flected of the church St Adalbert

Wroclaw's alleys - the by-street of St Joseph

The beautiful Ukryta street, in the background the tower building of the Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Technology

Courtyard of the Ossolineum

Niepolda Passage

St Giles Lane

The crossing to the Kanonia street

Kanonia street

Twilight on Cathedral street

The Tumski Bridge in the fog

.. and the same bridge seen from the other side

The Grunwald Bridge

The National Museum in the moonlight

Let's see now Wroclaw fountains - here is fountain in front of the Swiebodzki station

Fountain with allegories of struggle and victory of John Paul II Square

The same fountain at night

A small but nice fountain at the Salt Square

Aquatic fantasies on the Oławska street

Square with a fountain at the corner of streets of Szewska and Wit Stwosz

A fountain with a swordsman - University Square

Another famous fountain - on Wroclaw Market Square

... and the newest, the biggest in Europe - multimedia fountain on Pergola

"Dancing fountains" on the background of the Centennial Hall

The fountain in the Pergola is one of several such projects in the world. In the fountain basin, an area of about 1 ha, were placed almost 300 different types of water yets

jets(geysers, jets foaming, dynamic, hazing, point, palm, water) and 3 nozzles fire.The water is fired at a height of about 40 meters. On the water-screen with an area

over 700 m 2 can be viewed of art-animations, enriched by music.

The spectacle of water and fire enrich the images cast by a projector onto the water-screen, and also lights of Lasers and sounds of music. Fountain is illuminated by nearly 800

large and small points of light.

Pergola around the pond with fountains

Wroclaw Pergola had become empty, the fountains fell silent, until the spring ...

Music - F. Chopin; I Piano Concerto e-moll - romance larghettoIllustrations – was copied from an accessible websiteThe presentation was made by - Anna

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