Explore the most beautiful Polish monuments
From above, I had watched the motherland many times, but that time, it was different. With just one glance, I could see it all. From over there, Poland seemed little, but, at the same time, beautiful.
Monument of the week
Rzeszów
Small Synagogue, currently archives
It is one of the oldest preserved synagogues in the whole Podkarpackie Voivodeship. It was also called “Old School” or “Old Town Synagogue”. The Synagogue was built in the Renaissance style. It is of historical importance as material ...
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Collection introduces the region of centuries-long cultural and technological activity of man, which groups the remnants of the 19th-century industrial complexes and facilities — created in the era of early modern industry being born in the Polish lands.
This collection includes wooden and timber-frame churches of Greater Poland. In addition to brick churches with diverse stylistic features, they constitute a distinctive attribute of the region. Their presence enriches settlement landscape and they are an extremely valuable part of cultural heritage of Greater Poland.
Wooden architecture is a distinctive feature of Polish cultural landscape, and Podkarpacie is one of the regions where extremely precious, antique, wooden buildings from many periods and of many categories are preserved in abundance.
The Gothic sacred architecture from the area of Żuławy includes mostly modest single-nave churches representing local architecture, which in the specific area of the delta of the Vistula river had to face significant restrictions in terms of land and materials (wetland, frequent floods, absence of stone material).
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Monument of the week
Rzeszów
Small Synagogue, currently archives
It is one of the oldest preserved synagogues in the whole Podkarpackie Voivodeship. It was also called “Old School” or “Old Town Synagogue”. The Synagogue was built in the Renaissance style. It is of historical importance as material ...