Poland – Page 6 – the wandering spot

April 15, 2017June 18, 2025

Gniezno – first capital of Poland

Gniezno Cathedral

Interior of the gothic Gniezno Cathedral

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Saint Adalbert (Swiety Wojciech) reliquary in the Cathedral

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Gniezno Cathedral

April 14, 2017February 11, 2026

Poznań

Poznań is my (Piotr) hometown (Chicago is second).

Main Poznan Statio, new facility housing train and bus terminals

Plac Wolnosci (Freedom Square): Raczynski Library, National Museum and Bazar Hotel, important landmarks

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Old market square, merchant houses and town hall

Old market square

Zooming in on the towers of the Cathedral (Saint Peter and Paul Basilica) from the walls of the Royal Castle and above the roofs of the old town

April 1, 2017February 11, 2026

Two days in Kraków

My return visit to Kraków old town, 40 years later everything looks the same, exept when I focus on the details and then everything is quite different. Old recording of ☞ Hejnal Mariacki (Trumpet Call) played from the tower of St Mary’s Basilica in the Main Market Square of the Krakow Old Town.

Colegium Novum, Jagielonian University established in 1364 by king Kasimir III the Great, the collegium building is from 19th century

Barbican, an outpost once connected to the city walls

Slowacki Theater

St Marys’s Church

Kraków Main Square, Cloth Hall on the left and St Mary’s Church in the far corner

Wawel castle on the Vistula river

Cathedral, Wawel main yard

Gold Chapel

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Grodzka street, view towards the Main Market Square

Kosciuszko Mound (1820-1823) over the 19th century Austrian city fortification

Collegium Maius the oldest part of the Jagiellonian University

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