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WORLD’S CULTURAL HERTIAGE THE LEGACY OF POLAND

+ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

• Malbork Castle,• Cracow’s Historic Centre,• Medieval Town of Torun (Copernicus city),• Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and

Extermination Camp,• Wieliczka Salt Mine,• Wooden Churches of Southern Poland,• Elblag Canal.

+Malbork Castle

The largest castle in the world by surface area, and the largest brick building in Europe.

+Cracow’s Historic Centre

A relic of Poland’s Golden Age of Renaissance.

+Medieval Town of Torun (Copernicus city)

Copernicus city is famous for having preserved almost intact its medieval spatial layout and many Gothic buildings, all built from brick.

+Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp

The largest concentration camp during Second World War. A place of death for more than 1.3 million people.

+Wieliczka Salt Mine

Built in the 13th century, producedtable salt continuously until 2007, as one of the world’s oldest salt mines still in operation.

+Wooden Churches of Southern Poland.

The wooden churches of southern Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages.

+Elblag Canal

It is considered one of the most significant monuments related to the history of technology and was listed by UNESCO as a memorial to world culture inheritances.

+MUSIC HERITAGE

• Fryderyk Chopin,• Krzysztof Penderecki,• Vader.

+Fryderyk Chopin’s Music

Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He has been considered as one of the greatest Romanic piano composers of all times. Most of Chopin’s works are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces and some songs to Polish lyrics. He invented the instrumental ballade and made major innovations to the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, polonaise, etude, impromptu, scherzo and prelude.

+Krzysztof Penderecki’s Music

Polish composer and conductor.Among his best known works are : Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, St. Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of intrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and intrumental works.

+Vader’s Music

One of the greatest and most renowned metal bands all over the world. The band has a broad international recognition and gives concerts in different corners of earth.

+FILM HERITAGE

• Roman Polanski,• Agnieszka Holland,• Janusz Kamiński.

+Roman Polanski’s movies

The greatest Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. The author of many renowned movies such as: Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Chinatown (1974), Tess (1979), The Pianist (2002), Ghostwriter (2010), Carnage (2011) and many others.

+Agnieszka Holland’s Movies

Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland’s most prominent filmmakers and a Hollywood outsider. Not only is she considered to be one of the few female directors working in Hollywood today, she is one of the few who are not actresses or industry insiders.

+Janusz Kamiński’s cinematography

A Polish cinematographer and film director. He rose to fame after the movie Schindler’s List (1993). Since then he photographed all Steven Spielberg movies. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography twice.

+SPORT HERITAGE

• Ski Jumping,• Polish Winter Himalaism.

+Ski Jumping

One of the most popular sport in Poland, mainly due to the domination of Adam Malysz in the last decade. Nowadays, this sport has its booming years in our country and a lot of young faces are coming on stage.

+Polish Winter Himalaism

Polish climbers have specialised in Winter Climbing in Himalaya Mountains. 10 out of 12 winter ascents of eight-thousanders were achieved by Polish climbers.

+IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS

• Polish trade union „Solidarity”,• Constitution of May 3, 1791,• Maria Curie-Sklodowska achievements.

+Polish trade union „Solidarity”„Solidarity” is a Polish trade union federation that emerged on 31 August 1980 at the Gdansk Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Walesa.

„Solidarity” played a significant role in the return of democracy in Poland in 1989 and the first free elections after Second World War.

+Constitution of May 3, 1791

The world’s second oldest codified constitution after the U.S. Constitution and the first constitution of its type in Europe. The document was designed to redress political defects of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, diminished significantly the role of the nobility and guaranteed the equal treatment before the law of all people.

+Maria Curie- Sklodowska Achievements

Maria Curie- Sklodowska was a Polish physicist and chemist, working mainly in France, who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne), and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in Paris’ Pantheon.

+POLISH CUISINE

+…AND HOSPITALITY!!!

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