[Leica] IMG: Rzeszów

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Wonderful set, and I love  the penchant for public art you have in Europe.
However, my favourite shot was a bit more down to earth 😀:

https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Rzesz%C3%B3w-August-2024/i-Qh4Pb3K/A

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 10:36 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> I spent a few days earlier this month in Rzeszów, a town of about 250,000
> inhabitants in south-eastern Poland. Despite its relatively modest size, it
> is the main city in a rather thinly populated part of the country, about
> 100 km from the Slovak border to the south and 90 km from the Ukraine
> border to the east. Because of this proximity and the fact that it has a
> good airport, Rzeszów has become one of the main transit points for western
> military aid to Ukraine, and “just in case”, its airport is well protected
> with Patriot defence systems (sadly, there is no good place from where to
> photograph them, as the best view is from a busy road where one cannot
> stop).
>
> Besides this recent involvement in the war, Rzeszów has a long and (like
> most of Poland) sometimes painful history. It was part of the
> Austro-Hungarian empire between 1795 and 1918, a time when Poland did not
> exist as a state, having been carved up among its large neighbours Russia,
> Austria-Hungary and Prussia. But also, like the rest of Poland, it has
> experienced a renaissance since the fall of Communism in 1989, and is today
> a vibrant and lively place. I was there last year also, so some of the
> places you will have seen before, but this time I explored some other
> areas, especially a very nice, long riverside promenade known simply as
> “the Boulevard”.
>
> A gallery of 84 images is here:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Rzeszów-August-2024
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> And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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