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Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Graz
Date: April 22, 2011, 9:35 pm
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thank you Ruby...I'd like to make it to niagara this year for
the cherry flowering time... :)
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Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Graz
Date: April 23, 2011, 6:33 pm
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cool perspective...
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Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Boo
Date: April 25, 2011, 3:50 am
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Great pictures Graz ::)
Boo
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Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Graz
Date: April 25, 2011, 10:13 am
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]thanks Boo...I collect random stuff that I like... ;D
I've been to this castle while it was being renovated in
1981...there is a beautiful park outside of the castle...the
owners used to plan a tree every time a child was born to the
family: an oak for a boy and a linden for a gri...
The construction of the castle started in 1580, initiated by a
local nobleman Stanislaw Siecienski of Siecin, who came to the
area from Mazovia. Works lasted for 53 years, and the castle was
not completed until 1633, by Marcin Krasicki, son of
Stanisław and Voivode of Podolia, who in the meantime had
changed his name. Originally, the castle was a fortified
stronghold, protecting southern border of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth. However, Marcin Krasicki, who was regarded as one
of the most important promoter of arts in the country, turned
the fortress into a sophisticated residence (palazzo in
fortezza), under supervision of Italian architect, Galleazzo
Appiani.[1] Also, he dubbed the complex Krasiczyn, after his
last name. Later, a village of Krasiczyn grew near the castle,
also bearing the same name. The Krasiczyn castle was built on
the site of an older, wooden complex, called Sliwnica, which had
probably been built in the 14th century.
Despite numerous fires and wars across the centuries, the
castle’s complex has been essentially unchanged since the early
17th century. Built as a square, with walls representing all
four quarters of the globe, at the corners there are four
oval-shaped towers: Divine (Boska), Papal (Papieska), Royal
(Krolewska), and Noble (Szlachecka). These names reflected the
eternal order of the world, with four grades of authority. The
rectangular, spacious court is surrounded to the east and north
by living quarters, and to the south and west by walls, adorned
with attics. In the middle of the western wall, there is a
square-shaped tower of the clock (Zegarowa), added by Marcin
Krasicki at the beginning of the 17th century. This tower serves
as a main gate, with a wall bridge over the moat. Across the
centuries, the castle attracted most famous personalities of
Polish history. Among visitors, there were kings Sigismund III
Vasa, Wladyslaw IV Vasa, John II Casimir Vasa, and Augustus II
the Strong. Sigismund III Vasa, of whom Marcin Krasicki was a
loyal supported, visited the castle thrice. For the first time,
in 1608, together with wife Constance of Austria.
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Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Graz
Date: April 26, 2011, 9:13 am
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Warsaw was totally destroyed during WWII, the Old Town was
rebuilt using old plans and photos...:)
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#Post#: 1889--------------------------------------------------
Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Graz
Date: April 30, 2011, 10:23 am
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since this area can only hold limited number of attachments, I
am going to post all beautiful things, people and places here:
HTML http://graz1.tumblr.com/
feel free to visit... :)
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Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: CLM
Date: April 30, 2011, 11:00 am
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Graz, it can hold quite a few and it's not a big deal to prune
them ... don't let that keep ya from posting what ya want ...
Meta will clean up ... LOL!!!
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Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Graz
Date: April 30, 2011, 11:04 am
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oKeyDokey... :D
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Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Meta
Date: April 30, 2011, 11:52 am
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LOL! While there are restrictions on attachment sizes by this
site and clean up is not a problem. You got some choices ..
Like after 3 weeks the attachments will get auto-deleted OR Graz
you can use the "Insert Image" tag in the reply box here to link
from Tumblr (or anywhere) and they'll stay up for as long you
keep 'em on Tumblr or they are up on the linked site.
I visited your link, Graz and those pics are awesome!!
[img]
HTML http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkftnz1p7m1qja1wno1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1304268702&Signature=rNE0%2BrpL12iC9QI5pD2in1dI6uc%3D[/img]
#Post#: 1895--------------------------------------------------
Re: Beautiful things, people and places
DIR By: Meta
Date: April 30, 2011, 11:59 am
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and CLM, while on pruning and clean ups. I just pruned and
cleaned up my hollies!! And also my newly planted nandinas. They
survived their first winter and are showing signs of new growth.
Yay! I love it when new lil plants make it through the cold
weather. :) :)
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