Old Town, Lublin, Poland

After the great Market Square fire in 1575, most of the wooden buildings were replaced by brick townhouses, which survive to this day, often featuring beautiful sgraffito and bas-reliefs. The Market Square and its townhouses create a unique atmosphere of a historic place, now bustling with cultural and tourist life.

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Old Town, Lublin, Poland

The Old Town of Lublin hides many fascinating stories and architectural details that give it a unique character. The central point of the Old Town is the Market Square, an irregular quadrangle surrounded by impressive, colorful tenement houses of various architectural styles — Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classicist.

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Town Hall Square, Vilnius, Lithuania

This is the historic center of the city, with origins dating back to the Middle Ages. As early as the 15th century, a Gothic town hall stood on this square, serving administrative, judicial, and commercial functions – it housed, among other things, the mayors’ meeting hall, an armory, an archive, a prison, as well as the city scales and a pillory used for administering justice. The square was an important place for gatherings and public spectacles.

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The Long Market Square (Długi Targ), Gdańsk, Poland

The Long Market Square, thanks to its unique atmosphere and rich cultural offer, is a place where everyone will find something for themselves. From cafes and restaurants, through souvenir boutiques, to art galleries. The Long Market Square is bustling with life at any time of day or night.

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The Long Market Square (Długi Targ), Gdańsk, Poland

Photo taken from The Green Gate.

The Long Market Square is not only the heart of Gdańsk, but also a treasure trove of exceptional examples of architecture. Walking along The Long Market Square allows you to admire the wealth of architectural styles, from Gothic, through Renaissance, to Mannerism. Each building, each tenement house has its own history, reflecting the rich past of Gdańsk.

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Przez lata swojej świetności funkcjonowały jako budynki mieszkalne, jednak często w historii wykorzystywano kamienice do innych celów… W dzisiejszym krótkim artykule przedstawię wybrane najciekawsze dawne zastosowania kamienic z Włocławka!
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The Przybyłowski Tenement Houses, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

The Przybyłowski tenement houses were built in 1615, in the southern corner of the Kazimierz market square. Their name comes from the names of the owners, wealthy brothers Mikołaj and Krzysztof Przybyła, who decorated the tenement houses with images of their patron saints. The adjacent houses have an identical arrangement of facades: a ground floor with arcades and a first floor with three windows. The facades are richly decorated with bas-reliefs depicting people, animals, plant and linear ornaments, Christian and mythological, medieval fantasies and Renaissance grotesques. All this is interwoven with Latin philosophical maxims. Both tenement houses were apparently polychrome, as evidenced by the traces still visible today.

The older tenement house, “Under Saint Nicholas”, is named after the bas-relief of Saint Nicholas placed between the first floor windows. The decorative pilasters in the corners of the building feature bas-reliefs of Saint James and Saint Thomas. After 1772, the building served as the town hall.

The tenement house “Under Saint Krzysztof” took its name from the gigantic bas-relief in the center of the facade, showing Saint Christopher, carrying little Jesus through the water, sitting on his shoulder. The figures of Judith and Salome appear on the pilasters in the corners of the building. The roof of the building has been preserved in its original form, i.e. it is concave.

Currently, the Przybyłowski Tenement Houses house the City Hall and the Bank.

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Underground of Sandomierz, Poland (part 2 of 2)

After a few centuries, when Sandomierz’s position was no longer so strategic, the dungeons were forgotten. Unused and unsecured, they became the cause of construction disasters.

Scientists from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków rushed to the rescue of the Old Town. After the implementation of a special program, the area of a real multi-storey labyrinth of cellars and corridors was recovered. Some excavations had to be liquidated for structural reasons. The remaining sections were used to create the Underground Tourist Route. Its length is currently 470 m. The deepest excavations are at a depth of 12 m. There are 34 chambers along the route, each of which has its own name, which is a reference to the history of Sandomierz. Numerous corridors and chambers dug for centuries are associated with many Sandomierz mysteries and legends.

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Underground of Sandomierz, Poland (part 1 of 2)

Medieval Sandomierz was located at the intersection of important trade routes, and local merchants monopolized trade intermediation. Needing more and more space to store various goods, they dug underground cellars in the soft loess ground under tenement houses and city squares. The deepest ones reached up to 15 meters! In this way, over the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, a whole labyrinth of warehouses and tunnels was created under the city.

According to one of the legends, the tunnels also contributed to the defense of the city against the invasion of the Tatars. Halina, the daughter of the castellan of Sandomierz, Piotr Krępa, lost all her relatives, including her father who was the commander of the garrison. During the next invasion, having also lost her husband, she decided, in consultation with the mayor Wiktor, to take revenge on the invaders. For this, she got into the enemy camp. There she told the chief that she had been disgraced by the inhabitants. She offered to lead the Tatars through secret underground corridors into the city.
Halina led them around the dark dungeons for a long time, when the inhabitants of Sandomierz, initiated into the deception, covered the entrance to the corridors with heavy boulders. All the Tatars died, and with them also the heroic girl.

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