Warsaw - Capital

[Bonobo]

May 29, 2016 14:44:31 GMT 1 pjotr said:

What a wonderful images Bonobo. It's great to see that that city of my dziadek, babcia, ciocia and my Polish Rodzina which was hurt so much has recovered in such a layered fashion. The only 'good' thing about communism in my point of view was the rebuilding of the old city of Warsaw, the Palaces and the new communist (we call it in the West Eastern-European workers building blocks) architecture and the wonderful Palace of culture which is a great example of Stalinist architecture (maybe on of the few positive things which came out of Stalinism, like some strong Nazi and Fascist buildings in Germany and Italy are one of the few positive elements of these totalitarian systems) and probably other places in Poland which were destroyed by the war.

I love cities which are layered, and Warsaw has reconstructed it's history and in that history it shows verious kinds of architecture. Gothic and Baroc churches, classicist buildings, the architecture of the Peoples Republic and the architecture of the new democratic and capitalist poland. That merger makes Warsaw a great city. The Warsaw of today will be different than the Warsaw I saw in August 2006. New Sky Scrapers and new subburbs and beautiful apartment blocks in Mokotow and other area's of the city will be built. Maybe Krakow is more beautiful than Warsaw, but it could be that Warsaw is more exiting as a Metropole with more than 1 million citizens, expats, migrants, entrepreneurs, workers, civil servants, business people, students, artists, musicians and Polish intelligentsia.

Cheers,
Pieter

Comparing Warsaw and Krakow, definitely, Warsaw is a more exciting place. And simply bigger - I like vast streets and spaces in Warsaw, unlike claustrophobic Krakow. And Warsaw`s pollution doesn`t look as conspicuous on buildings facades as in Krakow.



















Warsaw by night











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[jeanne]

Those aerial view photos taken by drones are amazing...it certainly gives a different perspective of the city to people like myself whose impressions have only been formed by seeing ground-level photos! All I can say is "wow!"