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| nuthatch | profile | all galleries >> Poland >> Sandomierz | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 here is the market square of Sandomierz... |
 ...a town with history from the stone ages... |
 ...but significantly built up from the 14th to 17th centuries |
 we've hired a guide to show us around |
 we start with the Opatowska Gate, a surviving fortress gate and tower |
 the view from here is excellent... |
 ...over the Wisla river... |
 ...from the city's perch on a hill |
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 in the distance, the Pepper Mountains |
 our guide explains to Witek and Marla about the city fortifications |
 then we pass by the former synagogue (now a city admin building)... |
 ...and thru the city wall at the Needle's Eye |
 several types of wooden buildings are still found in this area |
 here's the city's famous ravines, a set of passages thru the hills around town |
 this one takes us to the Dominican church... |
 ...one of the oldest brick churches in Europe |
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 the early 20th-c. glasswork is especially lovely |
 the monastery is also the site of a 13th-c. martyrdom of 48 monks |
 now back in the steep ravines... |
 ...to take a shortcut to the castle |
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 our guide tells us some legends about the ravines |
 up again at street level, we pass more historic wooden houses |
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 a view along the Wisla |
 looking back at the Dominican church... |
 ...and up at the medieval castle and city museum |
 the castle is only a quarter of its former size, having been blown up by pesky Swedes in the Deluge |
 flint is plentiful in the area... |
 ...including an interesting spotted type... |
 ...and the world-famous striped flint |
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 a very early (12th-c.) chess set |
 16th-c. stonework by Master Benedict |
 folk art from the region |
 typical households... |
 ...and workshops |
 in the arts section: a recollection of the writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz |
 a special exhibit on Jacek Malczewski and his son Rafal |
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 back on the street... |
 ...we next visit the Diocesan Museum in the former house of Jan Dlugosz |
 Mary and Catherine by the elder Cranach |
 a kind of relic sampler |
 Mary, Agnes, and Clara by a local 15th-c. artist |
 Mary pierced by pain, originally in the Dominican church |
 curios... |
 ...like this Jericho rose |
 a sandstone madonna from the 13th century |
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 a library of wood types! |
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 here's the Sandomierz cathedral, re-styled in the Baroque era |
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 a last look up before we go... |
 Sandomierz panorama from the Opatowska Gate |