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Niepołomice Castle
Niepołomice Royal Castle is a Gothic castle from the mid-14th century, rebuilt in the late Renaissance style and called the ''second Wawel''. It is situated in Niepołomice, Poland and was extensively reconstructed in the 1990s. Niepołomice Castle was built by order of King Casimir III the Great on the slope of the Vistula valley, to serve as a retreat during hunting expeditions to the nearby Niepołomice Forest. The castle consisted of three towers, buildings in the southern and eastern wing, and curtain walls surrounding a courtyard. Sigismund I the Old rebuilt the structure, giving it the form of a quadrangle with an internal courtyard. Queen Bona Sforza's gardens were located on the southern flank. Bona Sforca was pregnant and expected to give birth to a legitimate brother of Sigismund II Augustus, however in 1527, being pregnant for five-months, she fall from a horse during hunting of a bear and gave a preterm birth to her second son who was born alive and baptized as Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niepołomice
Niepołomice (pronounced ) is a town in southern Poland, seat of Gmina Niepołomice in the Wieliczka County in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is situated on the Vistula River, on the verge of the large virgin Niepołomice Forest. There is a 14th-century hunting castle in town initially built by Casimir III, as well as a conservation center for European bison () nearby. The town is also home to professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... club Puszcza Niepołomice. 2018 Powiat wielicki, Niepołomice, Zamek Królewski 03.jpg, Hunting castle, exterior 2018 Powiat wielicki, Niepołomice, Ratusz 03.jpg, Town hall Niepołomice Kościół Dziesięciu Tysięcy Męczenników w Niepołomicach A 160 k.jpg, Church of 10,000 Martyrs External links Off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fireplace
A fireplace or hearth is a structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire. Fireplaces are used for the relaxing ambiance they create and for heating a room. Modern fireplaces vary in heat efficiency, depending on the design. Historically, they were used for heating a dwelling, cooking, and heating water for laundry and domestic uses. A fire is contained in a firebox or fire pit; a chimney or other flue allows exhaust gas to escape. A fireplace may have the following: a foundation, a hearth, a firebox, a mantel, a chimney crane (used in kitchen and laundry fireplaces), a grate, a lintel, a lintel bar, an overmantel, a damper, a smoke chamber, a throat, a flue, and a chimney filter or afterburner. On the exterior, there is often a corbelled brick crown, in which the projecting courses of brick act as a drip course to keep rainwater from running down the exterior walls. A cap, hood, or shroud serves to keep rainwater out of the exterior of the chimney; r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Residences Of Polish Monarchs
A residence is a place (normally a building) used as a home or dwelling, where people reside. Residence or The Residence may also refer to: * Domicile (law), a legal term for residence * Habitual residence, a civil law term dealing with the status of refugees, and child abduction * Residence in English family law, pertaining to where children should live in the case of disputes * Residence or hall of residence (UK) accommodating college or university students, known in the US as a residence hall or dormitory * Residenz, the German term for the city palace of a noble family * Tax residence, to determine the location of someone's home for tax purposes * ''The Residence'' (TV series), a 2025 Netflix series * ''The Residence'' (film), an upcoming 2025 film directed by Yann Gozlan * The Residence (Woodberry Forest School), historic home in Woodberry Forest, Madison County, Virginia See also * * * '' Reside'', a real estate magazine * Residency (other) * Resident (disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In Lesser Poland Voivodeship
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the arts, science, natural history or local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually. Since the establishment of the earliest known museum in ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preservation of rare items. Museums originated as private collections of interesting items, and not until much later did the emphasis on educating the public take root. Etymology The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castles In Lesser Poland Voivodeship
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private fortified house, fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a mansion, palace, and villa, whose main purpose was exclusively for ''pleasance'' and are not primarily fortresses but may be fortified. Use of the term has varied over time and, sometimes, has also been applied to structures such as hill forts and 19th- and 20th-century homes built to resemble castles. Over the Middle Ages, when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain wall (fortification), curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, were commonplace. European-style castles originated in the 9th and 10th centuries after the fall of the Carolingian Empire, which resulted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagiellonian Tapestries
The Jagiellonian tapestries (), are a collection of tapestry, tapestries woven in the Habsburg Netherlands, Netherlands and Flanders, which originally consisted of 365 pieces assembled by the Jagiellon dynasty, Jagiellons to decorate the interiors of the royal Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland. The collection is also collectively known as the Wawel Arrasses, as the majority of the preserved fabrics are in the possession of the Wawel Castle Museum and the French city of Arras, which was once a manufacturing centre of this kind of wall decoration in the beginning of the 16th century. The works became state property of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland according to the will of Sigismund II Augustus. History and components The first tapestries were brought by Queen Bona Sforza as her wedding dowry. Then in 1526 and 1533, Sigismund I the Old ordered 108 fabrics in Antwerp and Bruges. Most of the tapestries, however, were commissioned by king Sigismund II Augustus in Brussels in the worksh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Báthory
Stephen Báthory (; ; ; 27 September 1533 – 12 December 1586) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586) as well as Prince of Transylvania, earlier Voivode of Transylvania (1571–1576). The son of Stephen VIII Báthory and a member of the Hungarian Báthory noble family, Báthory was a ruler of Transylvania in the 1570s, defeating another challenger for that title, Gáspár Bekes. In 1576, Báthory became the husband of Queen Anna Jagiellon and the third royal election, elected king of Poland. He worked closely with chancellor Jan Zamoyski. The first years of his reign were focused on establishing power, defeating a fellow claimant to the throne, Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and quelling rebellions, most notably, the Danzig rebellion, Gdańsk rebellion. He reigned only a decade, but is considered one of the most successful Monarchs of Poland, kings in Polish history, Polish and Lithuanian history, particularly in the military realm. His signal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dee
John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England at the time. As a political advisor, he advocated the foundation of English colonies in the New World to form a "British Empire", a term he is credited with coining. Dee eventually left Elizabeth's service and went on a quest for additional knowledge in the deeper realms of the occult and supernatural. He aligned himself with several individuals who may have been charlatans, travelled through Europe, and was accused of spying for the English Crown. Upon his return to England, he found his home and library vandalised. He eventually returned to the Queen's service, but was turned away when she was succeeded by James I. He died in poverty in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castles In Poland
This is a list of castles in Poland in alphabetical order, based on similar lists compiled by various sight-seeing societies.ZAMKI. Spis miejscowości z opisanymi zamkami i fortalicjami. 2014. B * Baligród Castle – Subcarpathian Voivodeship * Baranów Sandomierski Castle – Subcarpathian Voivodeship * Barciany Castle – Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship * Barczewko Castle – Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship * Bardo, Poland, Bardo – Lower Silesian Voivodeship * Bąkowa Góra – Łódź Voivodeship * Bąkowiec Castle – Silesian Voivodeship * Bełżyce Castle – Lublin Voivodeship * Besiekiery Castle – Łódź Voivodeship * Bezławki – Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship * Będzin Castle – Silesian Voivodeship[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mannerist Structures In Southern Poland
The mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland includes two major traditions, Polish/Italian and Dutch/Flemish, that dominated in northern Poland. The Silesian architecture#Renaissance and Mannerism (early 16th – 17th century), Silesian mannerism of southwestern Poland was largely influenced by Bohemian and German mannerism, while the Pomeranian mannerism of northwestern Poland was influenced by Gothic architecture, Gothic tradition and Northern German mannerism. The Jews in Poland adapted patterns of Italian and Polish mannerism to their own tradition. The mannerist Kalwaria Zebrzydowska park, complex of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska and mannerist City of Zamość are World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Polish mannerism, though largely dominated by Italian architects and sculptors, has unique characteristics which differentiate it from its Italian equivalent, including Attic style, attics, decorational motives, the construction and shape of buildings, and Dutch, Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gmina Niepołomice
__NOTOC__ Gmina Niepołomice is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Wieliczka County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the town of Niepołomice, which lies approximately north-east of Wieliczka and east of the regional capital Kraków. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 22,168 (out of which the population of Niepołomice amounts to 8,537, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 13,631). Villages Apart from the town of Niepołomice, Gmina Niepołomice contains the villages and settlements of Chobot, Ochmanów, Podłęże, Słomiróg, Staniątki, Suchoraba, Wola Batorska, Wola Zabierzowska, Zagórze, Zakrzów and Zakrzowiec. Neighbouring gminas Gmina Niepołomice is bordered by the city of Kraków and by the gminas of Biskupice, Drwinia, Gdów, Igołomia-Wawrzeńczyce, Kłaj and Wieliczka Wieliczka (German: ''Groß Salze'', Latin: ''Magnum Sal'') is a historic town in southern P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus III Of Poland
Augustus III (; – "the Saxon"; ; 17 October 1696 5 October 1763) was List of Polish monarchs, King of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as List of rulers of Saxony, Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where he was known as Frederick Augustus II (). He was the only legitimate son of Augustus II the Strong, and converted to Catholicism in 1712 to secure his candidacy for the Polish throne. In 1719 he married Maria Josepha, daughter of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, and became elector of Electorate of Saxony, Saxony following his father's death in 1733. Augustus was able to gain the support of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI by agreeing to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and also gained recognition from Russian Empress Anna of Russia, Anna by supporting Russia's claim to the region of Courland. He was elected king of Poland by a small minority on 5 October 1733 and subsequently banished the former Polish ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
