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Ciudad polaca más conocida por su nombre en alemán, Breslavia. La Plaza del Mercado está rodeada por una sucesión de casas de diferentes colores.
Wroclaw, Poland.
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Wroclaw, Multimedia Fountain
The Wrocław Fountain is located in the historic Wrocław exhibition ground. It is next to the early modernist Centennial Hall, and encircled within the Wrocław Pergola.
Built in 2009, it is currently one of the largest operating fountains in Europe.
Multimedia show
The 1 hectare (110,000 sq ft) fountain incorporates over 300 jets to create moving-dancing screens of water. They are used, with music and light, by a computerized multimedia program for animated water shows at the night
The fountain is illuminated at night by 800 computer programmed coloured lights.
Ice skating
When frozen in winter, the Wrocław Fountain becomes a 4,700 square metres (51,000 sq ft) ice skating rink.
Wroclaw, Poland
The salt square is a former medieval marketplace in Wroclaw adjoining the Market Square. The Salt Square had originally the size of 84,5 m. by 94 m. It was probably built in 1242 and was called Salzring or Salzplatz. The monument of Marshal Blücher was erected on the square in 1827 and the square got his name. After the World War II the square got historical name again and the monument of Marshal Blücher had been destroyed by Germans earlier.
Nowadays the square is a place of a flower market. It stays open every day till late at night. You can buy different types of flowers there and enjoy their beauty.
Wroclaw, Poland
The University of Wrocław is a public research university located in Wrocław, Poland. Founded in 1702, it is one of the oldest collegiate-level institutions of higher education in Central Europe with around 30,000 students (2012). Throughout its history, it remained a great learning center of a German-speaking countries until territorial changes of Germany after World War II. Following the territorial changes of Poland after World War II academics primarily from Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów restored the university building heavily damaged and split as a result of the Siege of Breslau (1945). The first lectures were conducted in the halls with broken windows.
The University is currently the largest in Lower Silesia with over 100,000 graduates since 1945 including some 1,900 researchers among whom many received the highest awards for their contribution to the development of scientific scholarship
Seems like something out of a children's picture books sometimes!
With thanks to Distressed Jewell for the lovely textured sky and birds.