Nihzniy Novgorad, Russia
Posted on July 5, 2009
Known Nijni abbreviated name, is the fourth city of the Russian Federation, after Moscow, St. Petresburg and Novosibirsk. Has a population of 1,311,252 inhabitants. The city is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volga-economic Viatka and also the administrative center of the region Nijni Novgorod and Volga Federal District.
Between 1932 and 1990, the town was named Gorki, so named in honor of the writer Maxim Gorki.
Most of the historical center of the city consists of buildings in Russian and Renaissance styles Stalinist Empire. The representative image of the city is the Kremlin walls (1500 - 1511), with towers built of red brick. After the Bolshevik demolitions, the only original building left inside the walls of fortifications was Archangel Cathedral (1624-1631), building built over a place of worship earlier in the XIIIth century.
Wawel Cathedral
Posted on July 5, 2009
Wawel Cathedral is possibly the most historic place of Poland. The style is, in large part, Gothic, dating from the reign of King Wladyslaw the short (1306-1333) and of Kazimierz the Great (1333-1370). Wawel Cathedral, Poland's national sanctuary, was the coronation of the monarch of Poland. It is probably the most interesting place in the country, together with the adjacent Royal Wawel Castle. Its walls, XIV century, house a wide variety of art objects, from Gothic to Renaissance to Baroque, the classicist, the modern. It is also the burial of a royal of all Poland, and many heroes, two poets, four saints and a bisheop of Krakow. Eighteen chapels, filled with artistic values, surround Wawel Cathedral. Sigismund Chapel, beautiful 'white pearl of the Renaissance', vis-s-vis the grave of Queen Jadwiga, is the best acquisition of Renaissance architecture and sculpture in Poland and the entire north of Europe. It also keeps the demands Baroque, with black marble in the chapel, Vasa.
Among the five bells hung in turn, will find the bell 'Zygmunt', one of the largest in Europe and that weighs 11 tons. It was cast at the beginning of the century 16 retail but it is interesting that he was' cast 'bronze cannons captured by Poland in the novels.
Among the five bells hung in turn, will find the bell 'Zygmunt', one of the largest in Europe and that weighs 11 tons. It was cast at the beginning of the century 16 retail but it is interesting that he was' cast 'bronze cannons captured by Poland in the novels.
