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WarsawVistula River Museum of Art and Crafts

WARSAW

Warsaw mermaid

Basic information about Warsaw

•Is the capital and the largest city of Poland

• The city area is 516.9 square kilometers

•Warsaw is the 8th largest city in the European Union.

• The population - ca. 3 mln

•Has got an elitary University

History•The first fortified settlements on the site of today's Warsaw were

Bródno (9th/10th century) and Jazdów (12th/13th century).

•This differentiation and the growing social contrasts resulted in 1525 in the first revolt of the poor of Warsaw against the rich and the authority they exercised•Warsaw remained the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia to become the capital of the province of South Prussia.

•During the Second World War, central Poland, including Warsaw, came under the rule of the General Government, a Nazi colonial administration.•In 1945, after the bombing, the revolts, the fighting, and the demolition had ended, most of Warsaw lay in ruins.

Warsaw by night

The Vistula River

The Old Town in Warsaw

The Wilanów Park

The Palace on the water. Royal Łazienki in Warsaw

The Palace in Wilanowski Park

The Palace of Culture and Science

The Warszawa car

The Palace of the president of Poland

Origin Barania Góra, Silesian Beskids

Mouth Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea

Basic Countries Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia

Length 1,047 km (651 mi)

Source elevation 1,106 m (3,629 ft)

The reaches of the Vistula are composed of three stretches:

upper, from its sources to the city of Sandomierz centre, from Sandomierz to the mouth of Narew and Bug bottom, from mouth of Narew till Vistula's own delta at the

Baltic

The history of the River Vistula and her valley spans over 2 million years.

The river is connected to the geological period called „the Quaternary” (climate change).

The last one million years, an ice sheet entered the area of Poland eight times, bringing along with it changes of reaches of the river. In warmer periods, when the ice sheet retreated, the Vistula deepened and widened its valley.

The river took its present form inside the last 14 thousand years, after complete recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet from the area.

In Płock

The collection of the museum is one of the most precious in Europe.

The museum is located in two buildings - at 2 Tumska Street and in Granary at 11b Kazimierza Wielkiego Street.

Now the museum owns about 80 thousand exhibits - glass, pottery, jewllery and furniture. Some of them are of unique style. There is also an abundant collection of paintings (Józef Chełmoński, Jacek Malczewski, Julian Fałat, Stanisław Wyspiański) and Polish sculptures from XIX and XX century

There you can see the flowers, they are often on the frame. Because flowers have very soft lines.

Woman are often the subject of the sculptures because women are very beautiful. And on the sculptures the woman has often the wings of a butterfly.

This sideboard has symmetry and you can also see the sculpture of a woman and flowers.

This is a typical bedroom from the 19th century.

The EndPrepared by:

Julia ZyderJulia PeszoldÖzgü Bas Weronika KrzyżanowskaMarta OrłowskaAgnieszka Karbowiak