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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Prince

I would be delighted if you were to post photos and comments about architecture any where in Poland. That goes for the rest fo you too :)

I am just glad somebody is reading this thread ha ha ha.

Yet it remains unsure why the Renaissance began in Italy, and why it began when it did.

Yep, that's it.

I say they look German because when I was in Poznan, I thought they looked Renaissance/German because of the thinness of them and the regularity of them.

Do you call all Renaissance buildings in Europe Italian ? Nooo

No but as you have quoted the renaissance began in Italy, they had top architects come from Italy to Krakow to do it here.
Nothing wrong with that at all, is there?
I could be just reading you wrong.
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

wroclaw rynek

Where were you when you took these photos?
In a helicopter? cool :)

What are the differences between German and Polish architecture ? Which buildings in Poznań are build in German style which are in Polish show me the differences ? Tell me which buildings on old market in Poznań have been build by Germans ?

Ha ha ha ha, easy tiger! ha ha ha.
I think it looks like German Architecture.
It may well not be but it is very different to anything round here and looks much more like Poznan and Germany/Austria.
Don't take offence, I realise that the name of this thread is wrong.
It should not be "Polish Architecture" but "Architecture in Poland" because a lot of the photos i have posted are actually Italian architecture, except Zakopane.

I know history of all buildings on old market in Poznań we can have interesting debate.

Excellent, tell us more.
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

2nd attempt alittle too small but at least its on.

Looks like German architecture like in Poznan.
But i would need a closer look.

check that again Sean. :D

It was the Capital but perhaps not the original but who knows were it was in the stone age ;) ha ha ha

Archaeological evidence suggests that a settlement had been established in the Stone Age on the present site of the Wawel Hill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w#History
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Sometimes it does not work if you edit a previously unsuccessful posting.
So then you have to wait for someone to post and have another bash :)

I think so, or A.I. is alive and well and my computer is just messing with my head.
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

i may be gone some time :-)

If you need a hand just ask.

If i can do it, anyone can.
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

uk but not by birth

Ah, so there is some hope for you :)

I never know how people will take what is written on here as there is no intonation.

Have you tried the "paint" program, that comes free with most computers(if not all)?

Open a photo in it, then go to "image" "resize/skew" and 25% seemed to work for me before.
And then it is trial and error from there on out.
I think it is funny that I am giving advise to someone about computers, I do not know much, not even about computers :)
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

maybe through rose coloured glasses from the good times i have had there. i just think it`s a more attractive rynek, this may sound weird but more of a square. krakow seems to loose some of this due to it`s size.

Any photos?
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Really? why?.
Wait a sec, where are you from, hhHHHhhmmMMmm..? ha ha ha ;)

I will be going to Wroclaw at some stage this winter.

Please feel free to post photos or give your comments on Architecture in Poland.
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Millions from all over but the thing is Architecture in Poland.

Here are some more from Zakopane.
Very unusual Architecture here completely different to anything else I have seen anywhere.

P.S. the photo in sepia tone is just me farting around with the camera a month ago or so.


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Yes 10/10 again :)

all these pics are making me travel hungry.

ha ha ha, great!
I love to travel too!.

I have a real fascination with the more ornamental components to the architecture in Krakow.
I used to work there for a few years and still do but not so often.
Most days while walking to work I would look up at the blackened by time buildings and see a new intricate piece of art camouflaged in the soot (from Nowa Huta I guess), I know the commies built Nowa Huta up wind from Krakow so that Krakow would be blackened.

Luckily many of these fine works have been restored since I took these photos.


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

This one, hopefully.
Ah, it worked and i know what I got wrong first time, I can;t edit and put in photos, it is first time or no time.

So what is this street and what is that at the end of it, in the first photo?


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

10/10

Next what street is this and what is it's significance?

The other two photos are just random, but still in Krakow.

And please feel free to post any Polish Architecture on here, it will make it more interesting.
I took these photos for myself never thought they'd end up on the net.
I will try to take more "purposeful" photos to put on here, not just the classical stuff:)

Hhhmmm... didn't work I will post it next chance I get.
The saying "pay peanuts expect monkeys springs to mind" ha ha ha
So this is what you get for free and i get to impove my computer "skills" ha ha ha
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Thanks for the encouragement :)

In an attempt to make this more interesting/interactive.
Who can tell me the names and brief history of these two structure?


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

This is a view of the main market square (Rynek Głowny) Krakow Poland.


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Here are some more façades inside planty in Krakow.


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

010406 i think, could be earlier as I never really set the camera date much.

I am glad people are posting on here because it means I can get more pics up :)

Are there no Architects on here? there must be, come on lads and lassies tell us something.

These sculpting are above windows on the façades of buildings, There are many many different types.


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

I want to give a more general look for context.
So we are still in Krakow's Planty - the Park Around the Old City, so everything is in walking distance.
grodzka.net.pl/travel/krakow_planty.php


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Thanks, they don't always work but sure I am learning.

Here are the photos from Plac Szczepański I promised, hopefully.


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

It is called "ZoomBrowser EX" and it came on a disc with my Canon Power Shot S5 IS but all my earlier photos were taken on my old (broken) Konica Minolta.

I still can't re-size properly, I just lower the pixels not the size of the file, which is a pity because I loose a lot of the definition.

More photos from Plac Szczepański :)
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

The Church of Peter and Paul is a two minute walk from the main market square (Rynek głowny) towards the Wawel castle in Krakow, on Grodzka street.

Next building or two are also in Planty on Plac Szczepański "In your pocket" (St.Stephen's square). That's a very interesting artical on the history of Plac Szczepański

Obviously Krakow has many more styles than just these classical ones but I have to start somewhere.
I am also going to include some of the more ornamental façades, not just because I have many photos of them ;)
It should also be noted that many of my photos are quite old and a lot of these buildings have been cleaned and renovated back to their original glory.


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SeanBM   
4 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

This is only one of the beautiful church in Krakow, it truly is very beautiful here :) I am glad you like it, I do too:)

More from the Church of Peter and Paul or the church of the twelve apostles, Krakow.
It is also known as the church of the twelve apostles because the statues outside the front depict the apostles.
I was jokingly told that it was the smallest church in Poland because the twelve apostles have to stand outside. (it is not small).


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SeanBM   
4 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Yes very beautiful indeed.

Church of Peter and Paul or the church of the twelve apostles, Krakow.
Both inside and out.


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SeanBM   
4 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

A)

St. Mary's Church Krakow's original St. Mary's Church was destroyed during the 13th-century Tartar raids; rebuilding began relatively soon after.
The present church was built on the foundations of its predecessor, which was built before the town plan of 1257. This is why it stands slightly askew from the main square.
The new St. Mary's Church was completed in 1397; the towers were added in the 15th century.

Taken from sacred destinations.

Legend has it that two brothers were commissioned to build a tower each.
One of them became jealous because the other one was progressing better with his tower and stabbed him to death with the knife that is now hanging in the Sukiennice (cloth market) beside this grand church.


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SeanBM   
4 Jan 2009
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Anyone who has been to Poland has noticed the wide variety of architecture there is here.
There are many different types of buildings from blocks built during communism to grand buildings to Zakopane style etc...
Bridges, houses and castles etc the list is endless.

I have many more photos on cd somewhere, I will post them later.

Krakow was the original capital of Poland and has some of the most wonderful examples of Art Nouveau, Baroque (my personal favourite), Gothic, Classicist, Modern, Renaissance, Rococo, Romanesque, Socialist and Wooden architecture.

But I this thread is for any kind of Polish architecture rural or urban.

Notice on the last picture how the wall ins re-enforced and tappers in towards the top to give added support so they could build higher.


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SeanBM   
4 Jan 2009
Travel / Recommendations for Krakow and Myślenice [80]

The Chełm mountain and ski resort in Myślenice is a great place to go.
There is a ski lift that can take you up the mountain (Take aprox 20 mins) or a free bus from the bottom to the ski resort Zarabia sport

zima.zarabiesport.pl.

But the best is to walk it and up the top is a restaurant/bar.

I have not skied there and I think it is fairly expensive but I have never checked but I have been told. And yesterday the condition of the slope was not great.


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SeanBM   
2 Jan 2009
History / The Celts in Poland. [71]

Shawn_H found this article in English. Archaeologists unearth 3rd to 2nd century BC Celtic village in Poland.

Further information on the celtic settlement from the Krakow Post. Krakow Post.

"some of them went through the Moravian lands (now part of the Czech Republic) to Malopolska in the 3rd century BC, before any Slavic tribe got here."

Ha ha ha ha, so I have come home at last and historically speaking all the Slavs are just guests ha ha ha (joke of course;)
SeanBM   
28 Dec 2008
Love / Nice Polish women photos [329]

I second that.

I third that.

There is a definite consumer culture feeding us products and telling us how to use them to be attractive.

The most beautiful women are NOT on the cat walk.
SeanBM   
28 Dec 2008
Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

I would like to punch mr. lektor in the nose.
Well not any more but when I had a television 6 years ago and all I could hear was the first and last word of every sentence, it drove me bonkers.

I always wondered why they did not have the lektor in one speaker and the real dialogue in the other, that way YOU could choose.

Goodness, when there was a romantic scene and the mono tone voice of pan lektor did both dialogues it became farcical and boring i.e. not romantic.

Just thought I would gove a quick rant :)
SeanBM   
16 Dec 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

2) A spoof script for the resurrection of The Young Ones

Definitely, I used to love the young ones :)

Interesting suggestion. I'll leave you to write that one!

You know it will just degrade into some waffle that won't make any sence and you will all see how little I understand of the little I read on here ;)