[Leica] IMG: Kraków

[Don Dory]

I am truly impressed by the quality and quantity of public space art in
Krakow.  If we could get Americans to tourist east of Paris or Northern
Italy there might be a better understanding of the world.  A lot of culture
east of the Rhine.

On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 2:49 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Earlier this month I attended a conference hosted at Jagiellonian
> University in Kraków. 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.
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> So, a large gallery (120 photos), reflecting the fact that there is a lot
> of stuff to see in Kraków.
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kraków-September-2023/
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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> Слава Україні! Героям слава!
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