Historic Centre of Kraków, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/29

 

The historic centre of Cracow, the former capital of Poland, is situated at the foot of the Royal Wawel Castle. The 13th-century merchants' town has Europe's largest market square and numerous historical houses, palaces and churches with their magnificent interiors. Further evidence of the town's fascinating history is provided by the remnants of the 14th-century fortifications and the medieval site of Kazimierz with its ancient synagogues in the southern part of town, Jagellonian University and the Gothic cathedral where the kings of Poland were buried.

 

Postcard 1 : Royal Wawel Castle

 

 

Sender: Karolina, Sent on: 3 Apr, 2014, Received on: 10 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 7 days

Sent from Krakow

 

 

Postcard 2 : Aerial View of Krakow

 

Sender: joanna, Received on: 16 Apr, 2013, Distance: 1,450 km (901 miles), Travel time: 42 days

Sent from Germany

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1424

Situated in the eastern fringe of Central Europe, the transnational property numbers a selection of sixteen tserkvas (churches). They were built of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and 19th centuries by communities of Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths. The tserkvas bear testimony to a distinct building tradition rooted in Orthodox ecclesiastic design interwoven with elements of local tradition, and symbolic references to their communities’ cosmogony.  The tserkvas are built on a tri-partite plan surmounted by open quadrilateral or octagonal domes and cupolas. Integral to tserkvas are iconostasis screens, interior polychrome decorations, and other historic furnishings. Important elements of some tserkvas include wooden bell towers, churchyards, gatehouses and graveyards.

1- Brunary Wyżne-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel 

2- Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

3- Kwiatoń-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva 

4- Owczary-Tserkva of Our Lady’s Protection 

5- Powroźnik-Tserkva of Saint James the Less, the Apostle 

6- Radruż-Tserkva of Saint Paraskeva 

7- Smolnik-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel 

8- Turzańsk-Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel

Postcard 1 : Smolnik - Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel

Sender: Frutina, Sent on: 7 Mar, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 7 days

Postcard 2 : Turzańsk - Tserkva of Saint Michael the Archangel

Sender: Frutina, Sent on: 7 Mar, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 7 days

Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski, Poland and Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1127

 

A landscaped park of 559.9 ha astride the Neisse River and the border between Poland and Germany, it was created by Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau from 1815 to 1844. Blending seamlessly with the surrounding farmed landscape, the park pioneered new approaches to landscape design and influenced the development of landscape architecture in Europe and America. Designed as a ‘painting with plants’, it did not seek to evoke classical landscapes, paradise, or some lost perfection, instead using local plants to enhance the inherent qualities of the existing landscape. This integrated landscape extends into the town of Muskau with green passages that formed urban parks framing areas for development. The town thus became a design component in a utopian landscape. The site also features a reconstructed castle, bridges and an arboretum.

 

Postcard 1 : Muskauer Park, Germany

 

 

Sender: ri-tu, Sent on: 7 Apr, 2014, Received on: 10 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 3 days

 

 

Postcard 2 : Park Mużakowski, Poland

 

 

Sender: Frutina, Sent on: 7 Mar, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 7 days

Region Kaszëbskô, Poland

Sender: SubMina, Sent on: 1 Mar, 2014, Received on: 12 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 11 days

Medieval Town of Toruń, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/835

Torun owes its origins to the Teutonic Order, which built a castle there in the mid-13th century as a base for the conquest and evangelization of Prussia. It soon developed a commercial role as part of the Hanseatic League. In the Old and New Town, the many imposing public and private buildings from the 14th and 15th centuries (among them the house of Copernicus) are striking evidence of Torun's importance.

Sender: sebiusz, Sent on: 28 Feb, 2014, Received on: 7 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 10 days

Sent from the city of origin

Historic Centre of Warsaw, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/30

During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, more than 85% of Warsaw's historic centre was destroyed by Nazi troops. After the war, a five-year reconstruction campaign by its citizens resulted in today's meticulous restoration of the Old Town, with its churches, palaces and market-place. It is an outstanding example of a near-total reconstruction of a span of history covering the 13th to the 20th century.

Sender: Ana_postcrossing, Sent on: 24 Feb, 2014, Received on: 27 Feb, 2014, Travel time: 3 days

Centennial Hall in Wrocław, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1165

The Centennial Hall, a landmark in the history of reinforced concrete architecture, was erected in 1911-1913 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. The Centennial Hall is a pioneering work of modern engineering and architecture, which exhibits an important interchange of influences in the early 20th century, becoming a key reference in the later development of reinforced concrete structures.

Sender: Ana_Postcrossing, Sent on: 27 Jan, 2014, Received on: 4 Feb, 2014, Travel time: 7 days

Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Białowieża Forest, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/33

Situated on the watershed of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, this immense forest range, consisting of evergreens and broad-leaved trees, is home to some remarkable animal life, including rare mammals such as the wolf, the lynx and the otter, as well as some 300 European Bison, a species which has been reintroduced into the park.

Sender: Bodexs, Sent on: 13 Jan, 2014, Received on: 20 Jan, 2014, Travel time: 7 days

Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1054

The Churches of Peace in Jawor and Ś widnica, the largest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe, were built in the former Silesia in the mid-17th century, amid the religious strife that followed the Peace of Westphalia. Constrained by the physical and political conditions, the Churches of Peace bear testimony to the quest for religious freedom and are a rare expression of Lutheran ideology in an idiom generally associated with the Catholic Church.

The Lutheran Church of Peace in Swidnica was designed by the same architect as the Church of Jawor, Albert von Sabisch, and built by master carpenters Andreas Gamper and Kaspar König in 1656-57. North of the town centre, it was incorporated into the outer ring of fortifications in the mid-18th century. The auxiliary buildings include the head pastor's residence, the vicarage and two schools. The church is in the form of a basilica with a transept and four tiers of galleries. Its plan is close to a Greek cross. The polychrome decoration of the interior, started in 1693 under the direction of Christian Sussenbach, was inspired by the Bible. The high altar was executed in 1752 by the sculptor Gottfried August Hoffman, replacing an old altarpiece, and he also built the pulpit. The main organ was built by Christoph Klose.

Sender: Ana_Postcrossing, Sent on: 2 Dec, 2013, Received on: 9 Dec, 2013, Travel time: 7 days

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/905

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is a breathtaking cultural landscape of great spiritual significance. Its natural setting – in which a series of symbolic places of worship relating to the Passion of Jesus Christ and the life of the Virgin Mary was laid out at the beginning of the 17th century – has remained virtually unchanged. It is still today a place of pilgrimage.

Sender: Ana_Postcrossing, Sent on: 2 Dec, 2013, Received on: 9 Dec, 2013, Travel time: 7 days

Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1053

The wooden churches of southern Little 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, these churches were sponsored by noble families and became status symbols. They offered an alternative to the stone structures erected in urban centres.

The World Heritage site comprises eight wooden churches:

1- The Church of the Archangel Michael- Binarowa

2- The Church of All Saints - Blizne

3- The Church of the Archangel Michael - Debno

4- The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael - Haczow

5- The Church of St Peter and St Paul - Lachowice

6- The Church of St Leonard - Lipnica Murowana

7- The Church of St John the Baptist - Orawka

8- The Church of St Philip and St James the Apostles - Sekowa

Postcard 1 : The Church of the Archangel Michael (Debno)

The Church of the Archangel Michael (Debno) is first mentioned in 1335. The present building, the second on the site, dates from the late 15th century. This church has a unique example of medieval decorations. The ceiling and the interior walls are painted using stencils from the 15th and 16th centuries. The decoration contains more than 77 motifs: architectural recalling Gothic forms, animal, human and religious.

Sender: maryellie, Sent on: 9 Nov, 2013, Received on: 21 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 12 days

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/32

This deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka-Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century and is the oldest of its type in Europe. Spread over nine levels, it has 300 km of galleries with works of art, underground chapels and statues sculpted in the salt, making a fascinating pilgrimage into the past of a major industrial undertaking. The Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines illustrate the historic stages of the development of mining techniques in Europe, from the 13th to the 20th centuries. Wieliczka Saltworks Castle, used for the management of the property, dates from the medieval period and has been rebuilt several times in the course of its history.

Sender: Malgosia, Sent on: 11 Nov, 2013, Received on: 19 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 8 days

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Sender: RobertoK, Sent on: 20 Feb, 2014, Received on: 27 Feb, 2014, Travel time: 7 days

Sent from Wieliczka

Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945), Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/31

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.

Sender: Malgosia, Sent on: 23 Oct, 2013, Received on: 1 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 8 days

Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/847

This 13th-century fortified monastery belonging to the Teutonic Order was substantially enlarged and embellished after 1309, when the seat of the Grand Master moved here from Venice. A particularly fine example of a medieval brick castle, it later fell into decay, but was meticulously restored in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the conservation techniques now accepted as standard were evolved here. Following severe damage in the Second World War it was once again restored, using the detailed documentation prepared by earlier conservators.

Sender: bodexs, Sent on: 23 Oct, 2013, Received on: 1 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 8 days

Old City of Zamość, Poland (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/564

Zamosc was founded in the 16th century by the chancellor Jan Zamoysky on the trade route linking western and northern Europe with the Black Sea. Modelled on Italian theories of the 'ideal city' and built by the architect Bernando Morando, a native of Padua, Zamosc is a perfect example of a late-16th-century Renaissance town. It has retained its original layout and fortifications and a large number of buildings that combine Italian and central European architectural traditions.

Sender: bodexs, Sent on: 23 Oct, 2013, Received on: 1 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 8 days

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Głubczyce, Poland

Sender: movo, Sent on: 4 Dec, 2012, Received on: 15 Dec, 2012, Travel time: 11 days

Flag of Poland and Coat of Army

Two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red; colors derive from the Polish emblem - a white eagle on a red field.

Sender: sylwia, Sent on: 10 Aug, 2013, Received on: 10 Sep, 2013, Travel time: 31 days

Polish Coat of Arms

Sender: Gamarej, Sent on: 14 Apr, 2013, Received on: 10 May, 2013, Travel time: 26 days

Tatry City, Poland



Sender: BECIK, Received on: 22 Feb, 2013, Distance: 1,207 km (750 miles), Travel time: 14 days