Ojcow Castle is settled come Krakow and the modify glace Pieskowa Skala Hall. The castle is now a leave of Ojcow Mortal Arena come Krakow. This late-Romanesque designer chessman in Ojcow belongs to a gather of late Gothic secure fortresses titled ‘Eagle’s Nests’. It was shapely on a towering gynaecologist in the 13th century, guarding the vale above Ojcow townsfolk.

Like the chessman in Pieskowej Skale, the residence in Ojcow was a well-fortified defence, which was to support guarantee for the business way. Title has it that it was called Ojcow from the slavic express for begetter, with which Kazimierz the major celebrate his sire – Ladislaus the Unforbearing. Favorite as a traveller direction since the 18th century, the community of Ojcow was a voguish eudaemonia locomote finished the secondment half of the 19th century.

Though destroyed, the Ojcow Hall relic a magnificent range, and especially the gate and the rise are worth noticing. The predominate currently houses an aggregation devoted to the chronicle of the Ojcow Residence. To get from Krakow to Ojcow, propulsion about 15 kilometers on the roadworthy no.94 in the substance of Olkusz, and then ferment paw to Ojcow. Buses from Krakow to Ojcow lose from Helcow Street (the militia is titled UNIBUS) every hour or so.

The Mamaison Le Regina Hotel is housed in a faithfully restored building dating back to the 18th century. There are 61 air conditioned rooms spread on three floors and decorated in natural brown and vanilla shades. The tastefully furnished guestrooms include flat-screen satellite TVs, fax machines and bathrooms designed with Venetian mosaic with shower/tub combinations. Some rooms offer views of the interior courtyard or of Warsaw. The Mamaison Hotel Le Regina has many amenities that include a lush courtyard garden, lobby offering drinks and snacks, lounge area with a fireplace, spa and health club that includes an indoor swimming pool, a small gym and a sauna. The Le Regina’s restaurant serves contemporary and classic French dishes. Free Wi-Fi is available in the entire hotel.

Blow Up Hall 50 50 hotel is a unique interactive art hotel located in arts and business centre in Poznan city, Poland. Approximately 6 km from the city airport, this luxury hotel is close to Adam Mickiewicz University, National Museum, and Archaelogical Museum. Featuring an ultra-modern design and hi-tech facilities, Blow Up Hall Hotel offers a combination of luxury, high tech, the finest design and personal artistic experimentation.

Centered on a fascinating video installation by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, the hotel was named after Michelangelo Anttonioni’s 1966 cult film. It has 22 individually-designed suites with black and white colors and design and equipped with a LCD satellite TV, complimentary wireless Internet access, mini-bar, private bathroom with necessary amenities, and air conditioning. There is no reception and no numbers on room’ doors. Guests receive an iPhone to open their door by recognition technology that works as both a room key and a way to communicate with hotel staff.

One of the oldest cities in Poland, the medieval town is the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus. In 1997 the history center of the city was designated a UNESCO’s World Heritage Site and the Old Town was added to the list of Seven Wonders of Poland.
 

Archaeologists have discovered that the first settlers in the area were over 1100 BC. In 1230 Teutonic Knights built a castle on the site. In 1263, Franciscan monks settled in the city, and after them, and Dominicans. As you can see, the town is very attractive. Torun has the largest number of preserved Gothic houses in Poland. The most interesting monuments are: The Cathedral of SS. John the Evangelist and John the Baptist, The Old Town Hall, begun in 1274, City fortifications, begun in the 13th century, Ruins of 13th-century Teutonic Knights’ castle, and many more.

If you are in or near Podgorze, Poland and looking for a nice, relaxing green spot, Bednarski Park could be a good option. With its split level nature, the place is well balanced in terms of what it can offer. In some place the park feels more like a little forest, with virgin, pathless swathes of green. There are quite a few large, green, even surfaced patches, allowing for sports or all sorts of team games and picnic options.

The location of the park is really aesthetic, it is located on a hill (240 metres above the ground) around a quarry, dating from the Middle Ages. As a result, if you climb up the edge of the quarry, you will get to see some panoramic views of Krakow. The best way to get to the park is up the wide stairs, from the square at Korona tram stop at the end of Krakowska street, or from behind St Joseph’s Church, at the head of Rynek Podgorski.

The park was designed early in the 20th century together with villa-type development in the style of picturesque historicism, Art Nouveau, and modernism. It was there, in the Wis?ocki’s villa, that a plot inspired by Lt Antoni Stawarz resulted in the bloodless takeover of the city from Austrians on 30th October 1918 after more than 100 years of occupation.

The Safe House is a 6,100 sq.ft. fortress designed by KWK Promes Architects close to Warsaw, Poland.

It is a solid rectangular prism in which parts of the walls are movable. The entire house transforms with built in electronic engines, the house opens and closes with the touch of a button.When the house ‘opens’ for the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards an exterior fence, forming a pre-entering zone.

The Lotnictwa Museum in Krakow is one of the largest museums of avaiation in the world. It is located in historically preserved buildings and hangars of the former historic airfield of Rakowice-Cyzyny, the first airfield on polish terrain, build in 1912 for the air fleet no. 7 of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

Take into account the idea of flying, the spirit of the place, the structure of the historic airfield – the new building for the Museum of Aviation takes up these references intellectually and synthesises them into an expressive and emblematic structure.

A large structure has arisen with triangular wings made of concrete and yet as light as a wind-vane or propeller. Size and orientation of the wings got developed out of three different functions with 4500sqm usable area on three floors is for disposition now. Intertwining spaces provide good orientation for the visitor.

When you enter the building you will stumble upon the education wing with a voluminous 3D-cinema or directly into the exhibition area with the planes. The wings are generously glazed, opening in all directions. The exhibition thus links visually with the landscape around it and offers a view of the apron and the planes on display outdoors.

The offices for administration are in the second floor offering views towards the park, into the exhibition or through bull’s eye windows onto the former airfield. The new museum for aviation appears not as a “house” – it yields a subtle functionally expressive architectural sculpture. Location: Krakow, Poland.

The National Museum in Krakow was originally founded as a municipal institution so as to shun control by the occupant’s government in Vienna. At the moment it employs 644 people, including 257 in curatorial areas and a relatively big internal security forces of 112 armed officers who provide safeguarding services in all the buildings. The museum promotes world and Polish art, as well asvscientific, historical and artistic merit, which were produced out of beliefs of those who shared a sense of belonging to or respect for Polish culture, regardless of their place of residence, nationality or religion.

The collections of the National Museum outnumber 780,000 objects. Of these over 300,000 belong to the collection of the Princes Czartoryski Museum and Library which is managed by the National Museum in Krakow. There are artifacts from every period of history. The Museum also possesses a separate collection of ancient art, contemporary artists, and collections of medieval and modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The main collection is Polish art like painting, sculpture, drawing, decorative art and numerous western European works, a collection of religious art related to the Orthodox Church, and an extremely valuable collection of oriental art, mainly from Japan. Besides works of art the Museum also collects library collections featuring numismatics and historical photographs. Extremely fascinating part is the Studio of the Iconography of Krakow with its collection of historical views and photographs of the city.

In recent years most of the sculpture exhibitions are accompanied by “Music of the Stones”, performed on a rare lithophone, especially brought for this purpose to Krakow from Zurich. The music itself consists in part from of elements of reinterpreted Renaissance and Baroque music, and in part from the natural sounds of the slates and pebbles, whose use comes from the search for the “primeval tones” of the stones, which make up the exposition.

Guided tours and educational activities are available upon prior reservation at least one week in advance. Photographing and filming are allowed provided it uses no additional lighting or tripod. Wireless web access is available in the Main Building of the Museum. There is also some museum cafes: Cafe Wa?ka at Jozef Mehoffer’s House, Cafe Pod Kasztanowcem at the Szo?ayski House, TriBeCa Museum at the Main Buiding.

Hotel Park Krakow in Poland is situated in the heart of Krakow’s city center and in a close proximity to top city attractions like the Jewish district of Kazimierz and Wawel Castle.

The building is clad in aluminium with windows framed by dark horizontal bands across the facade.

Park Inn Hotel has 152 fresh, modern and coisy guest rooms, equipped with one double or two single beds, mini bar, TV, hair dryer and individually controlled air-conditioning, wireless high speed Internet access, stylish restaurant and comfortable bar, fitness room and sauna, indoor and outdoor car parking and one of the biggest conference centre in Krakow with 5 modern and flexible meeting rooms.

People lived on the Wawel Hill at least as early considering fifty thousand years ago, in the Paleolithic Age. In the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, i.e. some three thousand years ago, the settlement was apparently bustling with trade, with assorted crafts also keep from farming. Authentic was at the turn of the past millennium when the rulers of Poland took maturing their residence here. During the premier 16th century King Sigismund I the Old (1506-1548) brought domination the best native and foreign artists (Italian architects and sculptors, German decorators, etc.) to inaugurate the foxy Renaissance palace-cum-castle which survived, little changed, till because.

The Wawel Royal Castle has its “piano nobile” – i.e. the state apartments – on the top, third floor rather than the assistance flip for Italian palaces. The castle’s second asphalt contained private apartments of the simple family, whereas the court officials worked and lived downstairs. Visitors albatross see crowded exquisite interiors of the no sweat dwelling complete with beautiful name furniture and world-class objects of art. Some exhibits prove absolutely appropriate by any standards.

Designed by Honorata Martin and Ula Wasielewska, the cleverly designed and flamboyant ArtHotel Lalala is located in the historic Polish seaside resort of Sopot. It is an incredible place for that look for a charming, airy space. 

Hotel is housed in a tenement with a wooden patio, where originally designed interiors ensure an unique reshuffle of styles and forms. The beautiful room designs range from elegant to kitchy, featuring everything from clean, crisp white to vibrant retro and striking Asian-influence. The LALALA hotel has seven rooms offer an exotic atmosphere and style of this wonderful, alternative design hotel. Additionaly each room is equipped with a radio, WiFi Internet access and bathroom with shower or bathtub.

The artists who contributed to the project include Jakub Rebelka, Iwona Cybula, Asia Piascik, Marek Mielnicki, Emilia Bartkowska, Patrycja Orzechowsk, Kuba Bakowski and Joanna Zastrozna. Website: www.lalala.lu

Located in Poland, 160 km from Germany and 120 km from the Czech Republic, Wroclaw is a city with over thousand years of tradition. The gem of the European culture, the city amazes with its volume of Gothic, Baroque and Art Nouveau architecture. Situated on both sides of the Odra River there are a lot of islands connected by over 100 bridges that make up the city have gained it the title of the “Venice of Poland”.

Wroclaw is bursting at the seams with cosy cafes, excellent restaurants, and charming hotels. Famous for its sixteen museums… cinemas, large and small galleries, festivals, exhibitions and performances are the evidence of the rich cultural life of Wroclaw.

The most valuable historical buildings and museums can be found in the Old Town and its environs. The most famous is Cathedral Island (Ostrów Tumski) – a historic and spiritual centre of the city. Here Wroclaw began its 1000 years old life and here the first city and cathedral were built.

Numerous international musical and theatre events attract innumerable visitors from all over Poland. The international festival “Vratislavia Cantans” is the biggest one among them. “Jazz by the Odra River” Festival, Days of the Music of Old Masters, Wroclaw Meetings of One-Actor Theatres and Small Theatrical Forms, or International Theatre Festival “Dialog” Wroclaw are also worth noting.

The rich architecture and significant historical importance of the Poznan city are good reason to fun trip for people from all walks of life. Poznan is the second main centre of the first Polish state that emerged here in the Middle Ages. With a strategic position on the Berlin – Moscow train line, one of the most beautiful cities north of the Alps – Poznan will be for many their first experience of Poland. It has a stunning central square, thriving night-life, fascinating museums and many attractions in the surrounding area.

The most popular starting point for exploring the city is Renaissance Town Hall. Must-see attractions include Stary Rynek (the old square), Mickiewicz Square, the Zamek, Franciscan Church, the Cathedral Island and the stern Prussian castle. Explore sights such as the King’s Castle with its impressive Museum of Applied Arts and the Emperor’s District, a regal complex of buildings centred around the charming Rose Courtyard. The most notable events of the Poznan year are the International Trade Fairs, held since 1925 and comprising over 40 specialised exhibitions. 

Landscape artists flock to Kazimierz Dolny because it is thought to be blessed with an effervescent light. The appeal of the tiny, sleepy town has not been lost on film directors, either who have often used its atmospheric streets as a setting for romances and historical thrillers. Sitting proudly on the banks of the Vistula River, Kazimiers Dolny in eastern Poland is flush with cobbled streets lined with historical buildings. A laid-back retreat for stressed-out city dwellers who swarm there during the summer months from the nearby cities of Warsaw and Lublin. Photo by: ben.tastic

The town was founded in the fourteenth-century by the much-loved King Kazimierz the Great as a community for the Jewish population, and he built a castle there as his summer residence. The gothic castle was destroyed by the Swedes in 1650s, but its ruins are still open to the public today and offer stunning views of the city and the River Vistula from its hilltop vantage point. Photo by: ben.tastic

Rynek, the market square, is the prettiest part of town, with a well marking its center. It is there, where you will find several opulent houses, dating back to 1615. All town houses have roofs covered with wooden tiles, and in the balmy summer heat there is a pleasant smell of pine in the air. Photo by: ben.tastic

Location: Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. Photo by: stewedman

In 1309, the Grand Master Sigfried von Feuchtwangen moved the capital of the Teutonoic Order from Venice to a monastery at Malbork. The fortified monastery, constructed in the preceding three decades, was due for redevelopment. The subsequent periods of construction only truly finished with the purchase of the castle by the Polish king in 1457, by which time the fortress had become the most powerful in Europe. Photo by: roj czech

It is divided into three main sections, the High, Middle, and low Castles. The High Castle is an extraordinary fortress defended by multiple circuits of moats and curtain walling dotted with numerous towers. The Middle Castle consist of the former bailey converted into residential quarters, the Infirmary, the fan-vaulted Great Refectory, and the Great Masters’ Residence. The caste underwent a further program of improvements that took another century to complete, involving enlargement of the Low Castle area, which included St. Lawrence’s Church, workshops, an armory, stables, and other buildings. Photo by: LeszekZadlo

The complex is beautifully executed in brick with figurative friezes, fine windows traceries, and sculpted portals, all built in an imposing scale. Malbork Castle is one of the largest brick structures ever built, and was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. Location: Malbork, Poland. Photo by: LeszekZadlo