Wroclaw, Poland

Hey, have you noticed that new blogger option which lets you choose a location? the one in compose mode, just on the left side from the labels....it works with google maps and you can choose whichever place you want....since its new, im not sure how is it gonna work with my cards, but im certainly eager to give it a try....though i will stick to the standard labels as well...

This card comes from Ksenia, who is in charge for my Wroclaw postcard collection :)
I really like the size of the card....long and thin.....feels interesting for the eye to view the cathedral through this kind of a card-size
This is the Ukranian Cathedral in Wroclaw, which was built as a Roman-Catholic church in the 13th century, but now is the cathedral of the Ukranian-Greek Catholic Church.
hmmm, i find that combination somewhat odd....Ukranian-Greek, yet resides in Wroclaw...but there, you'll get to learn all kinds of things through the postcards :)

Thank you VERY much Ksenia for the absolutely great card...I just love it!

Wroclaw, Poland

This card from Wroclaw shows what he Century Hall looked like when it was built in the beginning of the 20th century.

There is a funny thing regarding these kind of cards...or black/white cards and movies in general.
I find it hard to actually add real colours to it, and when i was a kid I actually saw that world in black and white only, in the sense that i thought everything was like that..buildings or the way people were dressed...for some reason i couldnt get the notion of those things being in colour, so i thought that at the beginning of the last century things were plain and boring and whatever not...I thought Charlie Chaplin was also a man who lived in a world of black and white esp. since he was a mimer, that world of 'silence' really related well to things being black and white only.....well, with shades of gray as well.....i still find it hard actually to see black and white pictures/movies in colour...but i do see life as something in black and white with loads of shades of gray in between....

Wroclaw, Poland

A very interesting and unusual card from Wroclaw.....

The card shows one of the medieval buildings on the Cathedral Island, which is one of the 12 islands in Wroclaw. (it feels odd to have the word 'island' related to a town :))

On the very site of Ostrow Tumski, sometime in the 9th Century, the first permanent settlers of Wroclaw, the Slavic Slezan tribe, built their stronghold. In those days Ostrow Tumski was an island, and a perfect place to built the heart of a settlement, with the protection of the river Odra running around it.

However, as far as its importance as the religious centre of Wroclaw is concerned, the date 1000AD is the key one. It was then, on the turn of the first millennium, that King Boleslaw the Brave earned the favour of Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and was able to establish a bishopric in Wroclaw. He chose to build a cathedral on this very promontory and the name Ostrow Tumski was born (literally 'Cathedral Island' in Old Polish). Ever since that day Cathedral Island has never ceased being the centre of religious life in Wroclaw - although it stopped being an island back in 1810, when a northern arm of the Odra was filled in.

History can be really interesting sometimes :)

Wroclaw, Poland

My second card from Wroclaw and a new UNESCO card :)


This here is the Century Hall (later its name was changed into People's Hall, nowadays both names are used). It's not very old, built in 1912-14, but it influenced many other modern concrete buildings so thats why it has been a UNESCO whs since 2006.

I like it when the sender writes something about the card, so apart from some googled info, i can include that as well

It was erected by the architect Max Berg as a multi-purpose recreational building, situated in the Exhibition Grounds. In form it is a symmetrical quatrefoil with a vast circular central space that can seat some 6,000 persons. The 23m-high dome is topped with a lantern in steel and glass. It is a pioneering work of modern engineering and architecture.

Wroclaw, Poland

My first card from Wroclaw....out of 4....which somewhat caught me off guard, but in a pleasant way :)

The card shows a multiview of Wroclaw with a Polish map in the middle...yeeeeeeeeeee!!!! A map!!! Yup, im gonna count it under maps as well ;-)) (cant help it).
I cant not say that Wroclaw has a simply beautiful architecture....im not much of a 'building-interested' type of person, but I do like unique, interesting, beautiful, astonishing yet not pompeous pieces of architecture......Wroclaw definitely scores great points on my list!

Since the letters are probably too tiny and in case you are too lazy to zoom the picture, ill name the pictures for you, starting from top left towards right, then down and so on...

- Ratusz, Ossolinuem, Plac Solny, Rynek, Uniwersytet, Kościół NMP, Sukiennice

Thank you Ksenia for this and the other 3 cards...you really pleasantly surprised me ;-)