wanderings on poland (13b)

Beauty is our entire Poland

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

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

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

View from the castle tower on top of Sleza

The prehistoric cult sculpture at the top of Sleza

Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Ślęża

Castle on the Ślęża

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

Sobótka - sanctuary of St. Anna

Sobótka – Market Square

Sobótka - Market Square and St. Jacob church

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

Old town of Świdnica

The completly wooden Church of Peace in Swidnica (UNESCO)

The Church of Peace

The Church of Peace in Swidnica

Świdnica - the Church of Peace

Świdnica – The Strzegomska Tower

Trzebnica – The Town Hall

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.

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

The tomb of St. Hedwig

Milicz - Eighteenth-century neoclassical palace

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

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

antique organ from the 18th century

Grodno castle

Grodno castle

Lubiąż - Cistercian Abbey

Lubiąż - Cistercian Abbey

Lubiąż - Cistercian Abbey

Lubiąż - Cistercian Abbey

Krzeszów - Cistercian Abbey

Krzeszów - Cistercian Abbey

Krzeszów - Cistercian Abbey; Shrine of Our Lady of Grace

Henryków - Cistercian Abbey

Henryków - Cistercian Abbey

Henryków - Cistercian Abbey

The another charming town of Lower Silesia - Bolesławiec

The Boleslawiec Market Square

Bolesławiec

The Town Hall in Boleslawiec

Palace in Kliczków near Boleslawiec

Kliczków – the manor complex

Kliczków Palace – the theater hall

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

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

Lignite mine „Turów” in Bogatynia near Zgorzelec

Bogatynia – generating station „Turów”

Czocha Castle

Czocha castle

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.

Bolków castle

Bolków – the town

The town hall in Jawor

Bożków palace

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

Catholic church of Sts. Hedwig in Legnickie Pole

The castle in Książ

Castle in Ksiaz and manor buildings

Książ - the gardens of the castle

Castle in Ksiaz - the ballroom

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

Szyb w kopalni Lubin Główny

Lubin - Shopping-amusement center „Cuprum Arena”

Legnica - Market Square and Old City Hall

Legnica – Market Square

Legnica – houses with arcades

Legnica – a historic Post Office building

Legnica - St. John church

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

Legnica – the Catedral

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