Wrocław - Part I

Od Wroclaw

(c) Beata Sobolewska-Woźniak

A sight from University Bridge on Oder River.

Od Wroclaw

(c) Piotr Woźniak

A steamer on the Oder River.


Wrocław - one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Central Europe. The capitol of Lower Silesia in South-Western Poland, with history beginning in Xth century. Situated on the Oder River, at the intersection of two important trade routes - Via Regia and Amber Road, from the beginning was the multicultural place, where different cultures and languages met and got mixed.
And now, after centuries of history, sometimes tempestuous, it's still called a "meeting place". A place, where ages meet in various, sometimes surprising ways...

Od Wroclaw

(c) Piotr Woźniak

St. Mary-Magdalene's Cathedral...

Od Wroclaw

(c) Piotr Woźniak

... and the baroque University Name of Jesus church meet face-to-face with glass and steel of modern buliding.

Od Wroclaw

(c) Beata Sobolewska-Woźniak

And again St. Mary-Magdalene reflecting in glass elevation.