wanderings on poland (13c)

Beauty is our entire Poland

Województwo Dolnośląskie

Warszawa - Teatr WielkiKarkonosze - panorama

Góra Łopianka w pobliżu wsi Wilcza

Sudety - mountain chain in the south-western Poland and in the northern Czech Republic, a relatively small part located in Germany, divided into:• Western Sudetes - the highest peak - 1602 m Śnieżka (Snow White) in the Karkonosze chain• Central Sudetes - the highest peak on the Polish side - Orlica 1084 m in the Orlickie chain• Eastern Sudetes - the highest peak on the Polish side Śnieżnik 1425 m in the Massif of Śnieżnik.Sudetenland bands can not compare to the Carpathians, are not so big but very picturesque and frequented by tourists.

Kłodzko Valley and the Massif of Śnieżnik

Kłodzko Valley

The Table Mountains

The Table Mountains

The Table Mountains – Szczeliniec Wielki

Szczeliniec Wielki and Szczeliniec Mały

Observation deck of Szczeliniec Mountain

Errant Rocks - a picturesque maze like a rock city, in the National Park of Table Mountainsh

In the maze of Erroneous Rocks

„Apeman” – a form of the rock on the Szczeliniec

Wambierzyce - the village that resembling of town building.An important center of pilgrimage and tourism.

Basilica of Our Lady, Queen of Familiesin Wambierzyce

The moving crib in Wambierzyce attraction not only for children

Kłodzko Valley - Wałbrzych

Shrine of Relics of the Holy Crossin Walbrzych

Złoty Stok – the mine of gold

Złoty Stok - one of the historic gold mine corridors

Złoty Stok - The Treasury in the mine, full of 1066 "bars of gold", which symbolize the 16 tons of gold mined during the nearly thousand-year history of the mine.

Srebrna Góra - Silver Mountain

Srebrna Góra - the fortified mountain (686 m) in a deep and narrow valley that is separating Owl Mountains and the Bardzkie Mountains

Silver Mountain Fortress - the largest mountain fortress in Europe.

View from the fortress at Silver Mountain

Bystrzyca Kłodzka – panorama

Kłodzko - panoramain the foreground there is a fortress Kłodzko

The entrance to the fortress - tourist route

Inside the Fortress

Underground of Fortress Klodzko

View of Kłodzko from the fortress over the city

Kłodzko - Gothic bridge over the stream called "Młynówka from the years 1280-1390with Baroque statues is a miniature of Charles Bridge in Prague

Kamieniec Ząbkowicki - panorama

Kamieniec Ząbkowicki The Pearl of neo-Gothic in Europe - Palace of Hohenzollern is stylized on a castle

Arkady supportive upper storey terrace

The residue from the terraced gardens of the palace

Founder of this palace was the Dutch Princess Marianne , wife of Albert IV of Hohenzollern, the youngest son of King of Prussia. It is a four-storey building with four corner towers, its grand scale simply is entrancing. The palace was surrounded by Italian-style garden with lots of ponds and fountains (from some of them water spurted to a height

over 30 meters!) and sculptures. The cost of building the entire palace complex has been estimated at 3 tons of gold!

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After out looting the palace, the Red Armyset fire to the palace in February 1945.

DO NOT PERMITS EXTINGUISHIn subsequent years, took place further devastation of the palace,

in naturally way as well as by the people and institutions,partly with the assent of Heritage Preservation.

July 3, 1985 started refurbished by PalaceWłodzimierz Sobiech

and not without hindrance from the authoritiesthis work continues today.

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Palace in Kamieniec Ząbkowickim - state before of the World War II

Sanatorium "Polonia" in Kudowa-Zdrój, spa-town situated in a valley on the border of the Table Mountains and Orlicki Foothills

Kudowa Zdrój - Pump-room of waters, and part of Spring Park

Lądek Zdrój – sanatorium „Wojciech”

Lądek Zdrój – spring park

Lądek Zdrój - Houses in the market

Duszniki -Zdrója monument to Frederic Chopin and the house

where he stayed

Duszniki -Zdrój - spa house and the park

The mountain hostel at a Hall of Śnieżnik Mt. in a summer …

… and in a winter

Music - Preludium as-dur nr 17; F. ChopinIllustrations - downloaded of web sitesPresentation is prepared by - Anna

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