2015-Aug-29 Musketeers at Schemnitz / Mušketieri v Štiavnici

Too bad we missed this:

Before visiting the Old Castle (Starý Zámok) in Chemnitz/Štiavnica, don't forget about the New Castle (Nový Zámok, especially coming in from the side of Klinger lake)

Thank you for a great start of our Chemnitz trip and see you in the future!
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2015-Aug-28 Longital at Artcafé Štiavnica

It was pretty close, but we made it in the end!
Thank you Dano for letting me toy with the lights - the result was worth it, wasn't it? ;)

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2015-Aug-21 Pilgrimage home through Częstochowa

A pilgrimage home (or what can you see in Częstochowa/Jasna Góra under an hour).

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2015-Aug-18 The largest Jewish cemetery in Europe (Łódz)

The largest Jewish cemetery in Europe holds 180,000 graves, with many laid to rest inside ostentatious tombs that are works of art themselves (including the biggest Jewish mausoleum which belongs to Israel Poznański). Less ceremonious was the burial of the 45,000 or so Jews who died in the ghetto – you’ll find them interred in the so-called ‘Ghetto Field’ in the south of the cemetery. This is where the ‘clean-up squad’ of around 800 Jews who had remained to clear the ghetto were forced to dig their own graves. The Nazis, surprised by the speed of the Soviet advance, didn’t have time to carry out the execution, and the empty graves have been left as eerie reminder.(inyourpocket.com)

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2015-Aug-16 Boogie Boys at Manufaktura, Łódz

What a fun concert, boogie style - those guys are really great!

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2015-Aug-15 Kraków

It was so refreshing to be back in Kraków, and with friends!

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2015-Aug-14 Biała Fabryka u Geyera, Łódż

The White Factory (Polish: Biała Fabryka Geyera) is the classicist building in Łódź, Poland, constructed in 1835-1839 to host a textile factory which belonged to Ludwik Geyer. It currently hosts the Central Museum of Textiles and Folk Dance Ensemble "HARNAM". It is considered a fine example of early industrial architecture in Łódź. The building is located at the southern end of Piotrkowska Street, south of the city center.

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2015-Aug-9 Jazz Sunday with Jan Smoczyński in Łódż

Manu Summer Jazz Sundays with Jan Smoczyński at a lovely summer evening at Rynek Manufaktura

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2015-Aug-8 U Chopina w Żelazowej Woli

The Birthplace of Frédéric Chopin is a "dworek" (lit. little manor-house – in fact eastern outbuilding of non-existing mansion) surrounded by a large (over 17 acres) natural park at the banks of Utrata River in Żelazowa Wolanear Sochaczew in Poland – presently museum of the composer, department of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw.

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2015-Aug-08 Arkadia park + Nieborow palace

In the 70s of the 18th century a new style in gardening called English style appeared in Poland. It originated at the beginning of the century in England and then was gradually spreading across the other European countries. The English style definitely opposed artificiality and regularity of baroque gardens. It promoted unrestricted and emotional compositions of sentimental or symbolic forms and architectural constructions referring to ancient and medieval works of arts as well as to the everyday life in the country, often also to the overseas exotic forms. The style had been transformed together with philosophic, ideological and aesthetical changes of the epoch from sentimental forms to the vision of romantic garden.(http://www.nieborow.art.pl/en/about-the-museum/the-history-of-arkadia/)

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Even richer, more surprising is the palace itself.
You can find its history here http://www.nieborow.art.pl/en/about-the-museum/history-of-palace/

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