wanderings on poland (13a)
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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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