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Copyright: Karolina Pokwicka (Matylda76) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 340 W: 75 N: 589] (6690)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-10-12
Categories: Architecture
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/200 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Toruń [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-10-18 2:00
Viewed: 217
Points: 14
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hello/witam
a few steps further the old city walls of Toruń look like this, Flisacza street.

Another historical facts of Toruń:

Listed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since 1997, Toruń has many monuments of architecture beginning from the Middle Ages, including 200 military structures. The city is famous for having preserved almost intact its medieval spatial layout and many Gothic buildings, all built from brick, including monumental churches, the Town Hall and many burgher houses. The most interesting monuments are:

* Gothic churches:
o The Cathedral of Ss. John the Evangelist and John the Baptist, an aisled hall church built in the 14th century and extended in the 15th century; outstanding Gothic sculptures and paintings inside (Moses, St. Mary Magdalene, gravestone of Johann von Soest), Renaissance and Baroque epitaphs and altars (amongst them the epitaph of Copernicus from 1580)
o St. Mary's church, a formerly Franciscan aisled hall built in the 14th century
o St. Jacob's church, a basilica from the 14th century, with monumental wall paintings and Gothic stalls
* The Old Town Hall, begun in 1274, extended and rebuilt between 1391 and 1399, and extended at the end of the 16th century; one of the most monumental town halls in Central Europe
* City fortifications, begun in the 13th century, extended between the 14th and 15th centuries, mostly demolished in the 19th century, but partially preserved with a few city gates and watchtowers (among them the so-called Leaning Tower) from the Vistula side. See also: Toruń Fortress
* A Gothic house from the 15th century, where Copernicus was allegedly born (now a museum)
* Ruins of the Teutonic Knights' castle from the 13th century
* The House Under the Star (Polish: Dom Pod Gwiazdą), previously Gothic, briefly owned by Filip Callimachus, then rebuilt in the 16th century and in 1697, with a richly decorated stucco facade and wooden spiral stairs
* Toruń has the largest number of preserved Gothic houses in Poland, many with Gothic wall paintings or wooden beam ceilings from the 16th to the 18th centuries

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  • Great 
  • lele Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 814 W: 51 N: 1717] (11169)
  • [2008-10-18 3:17]

ciao karolina...ottimo lavoro..bellissimo soggetto..ottimo pov..grande lavoro..bella composizione..bel gioco di luci ombre...grande soggetto..bravissima.
lele

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  • Saba Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 551 W: 0 N: 1521] (8921)
  • [2008-10-18 8:51]

Witaj Karolinko! Bardzo ladny widok...przeszlosc i terazniejszosc. Piekne ujecie, kolory i swiatlo. Gratulacje i serdecznosci. Barbara

Czesc Karolina
Ladne ujecie interesujacego miejsca.Switna perspektywa,dobre swiatlo i kolory.
Pozdrawiam
Andrzej

Dear Karolina Pokwicka!
Amazing place.
Wonderful perspective.
Good composition.
Nice light and colors.
Very nice frame.
TFS!

Hi, Karolina!

Excellent composition, nice viewpoint. Beautiful saturation and sharpness.

I like it!

jazmin

Hi Karolcia
another beautiful view of Toru
wonderful pov of this old walls
great pov and details
ciao
Lucio

Siema Karolina!
Fajowskie zaulek. Ladne swiatelko i kolorki. Z jednej strony zabyteki, historia, z drugiej wspolczesnosc, zwyczajne zycie, ktore sie w tej pieknej scenerii toczy.
3maj sie!

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