Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, Fascinating. I found the parts of Nowa Huta you showed surprisingly attractive, particularly as I recall (dimly) communist-era tomes extolling its industrial capacity and showing huge chimneys belching (presumably lignite-ridden) fumes into the air. We could have a long discussion about these, which I don't think the majority would be much interested in. Thanks very much for showing them, Peter On 30/09/2023 08:49, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Earlier this month I attended a conference hosted at Jagiellonian > University in Krak?w. It is Poland?s most visited city, with good reason. > Its wealth of architecture and history is second to none, and the city is > much more walkable than, say, Warsaw. Altogether, I spent 4 days there, > from Sunday to Thursday, and while much of the time was taken up by the > conference and side meetings, there was enough time to properly explore > the city. I have been there several times, but it is always great to see > the old city, the Jewish quarter, the modern art at the museum of > contemporary art (right next to Oskar Schindler?s factory, today a big > tourist attraction), and this time also Nowa Huta, a new suburb built > around a huge steelworks in the 1950s, with the usual Stalinist > architecture of that era. Today the steelworks is long gone, but the > architecture is still there. > > So, a large gallery (120 photos), reflecting the fact that there is a lot > of stuff to see in Krak?w. > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Krak?w-September-2023/ > > As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Dr. Peter Dzwig