Wanderings on Poland (13b)

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Beauty is our entire Poland

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Beauty is our entire Poland

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Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Warszawa - Teatr WielkiKłodzko - panorama

Already 750 years BC area of Lower Silesia was inhabited by tribes of the Lusatian culture farm, 300 years later began to arrive Celtic tribes, representing a higher level of organization and production techniques, they quickly assimilated with the local population and the mountain Sleza became the center of the Celtic cult of

the Sun. The tribes gathered around this religious and political center were called "Slezanie" from their name is derived the name of the region - Silesia. Modern History of Lower Silesia is a very rich and tumultuous, I

just mention that initially ruled here the princes of the Piast dynasty, after the Tartar invasions and the division into small principalities, in the mid-thirteenth century, Silesia was addicted to the Czech. From 1526r.

Austrian Habsburgs seized it and since 1742 came under Prussian rule. In 1945 it returned to Poland.

Sudetic Foreland - Sleza Massif

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We set off from Wroclaw - on the horizon we can see peak Radunia and the volcanic cone of Ślęża

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At the summit of Sleza is the television mast at its foot lies a small town - Sobótka

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View from the castle tower on top of Sleza

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The prehistoric cult sculpture at the top of Sleza

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Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Ślęża

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Castle on the Ślęża

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The Knights' Hall Corridor in the hotel part of the castle

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Sobótka - sanctuary of St. Anna

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Sobótka – Market Square

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Sobótka - Market Square and St. Jacob church

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Street of St. James - that way leads "Camino" - Route of St. James

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Old town of Świdnica

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The completly wooden Church of Peace in Swidnica (UNESCO)

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The Church of Peace

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The Church of Peace in Swidnica

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Świdnica - the Church of Peace

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Świdnica – The Strzegomska Tower

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Trzebnica – The Town Hall

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Trzebnica Shrine of St. Silesian Hedwigj, beside the shrine of St. Adalbert in Gnieznoand St. Stanislaus in Cracow, is the oldest pilgrimage site in Poland.

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Trzebnica - monastery complex with the Basilica of St. Hedwig and St. Bartholomew, is the sanctuary since the fourteenth century, because here there is a tomb of the St. Hedwig

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The tomb of St. Hedwig

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Milicz - Eighteenth-century neoclassical palace

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Church of Sts. Andrew Bobola in Miliczmodeled on the Peace Church in Swidnica (Construction of a wooden frame,fill so called half-timbered)

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Milicz - Church of Sts. Andrew Bobola with a capacity of 2 thousand. People;

antique organ from the 18th century

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Grodno castle

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Grodno castle

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Lubiąż - Cistercian Abbey

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Lubiąż - Cistercian Abbey

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Lubiąż - Cistercian Abbey

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Lubiąż - Cistercian Abbey

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Krzeszów - Cistercian Abbey

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Krzeszów - Cistercian Abbey

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Krzeszów - Cistercian Abbey; Shrine of Our Lady of Grace

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Henryków - Cistercian Abbey

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Henryków - Cistercian Abbey

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Henryków - Cistercian Abbey

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The another charming town of Lower Silesia - Bolesławiec

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The Boleslawiec Market Square

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Bolesławiec

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The Town Hall in Boleslawiec

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Palace in Kliczków near Boleslawiec

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Kliczków – the manor complex

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Kliczków Palace – the theater hall

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Zgorzelec – this is a boundary town, before 1945 it was of the right-bank part of the city of Görlitz

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The frontier Old-town Bridge - Zgorzelec-Görlitz

The bridge over the Neisse Lusatian, which in this stretchforms the border between the Poland and German Republic

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Lignite mine „Turów” in Bogatynia near Zgorzelec

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Bogatynia – generating station „Turów”

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Czocha Castle

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Czocha castle

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Bolków - is a picturesque village which is dominated by the powerful medieval castle, which was once one of the largest strongholds of Świdnica and Jawor princes.

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Bolków castle

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Bolków – the town

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The town hall in Jawor

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Bożków palace

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Legnickie Pole - Baroque church of St. Hedwig (monument of 0 class) and the former Benedictine abbey

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Catholic church of Sts. Hedwig in Legnickie Pole

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The castle in Książ

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Castle in Ksiaz and manor buildings

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Książ - the gardens of the castle

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Castle in Ksiaz - the ballroom

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Lubin – Town HallLubin lies in the center of Legnica-Głogów Copper District and is the seat of KGHM Polish Copper,

of one of the leading producers of copper and silver

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Szyb w kopalni Lubin Główny

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Lubin - Shopping-amusement center „Cuprum Arena”

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Legnica - Market Square and Old City Hall

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Legnica – Market Square

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Legnica – houses with arcades

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Legnica – a historic Post Office building

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Legnica - St. John church

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LegnicaStreet of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the depths of the Evangelical Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Legnica – the Catedral

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Piast Castle in Legnica

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Music - Preludium Des-dur op.28 nr 15; F. ChopinIllustrations - downloaded of web sites

Presentation is prepared by - Anna