09 July 2011

Saturday, 9. July: Wroclaw Part IV

The final stop was a park with a needle column surrounded by columns going nowhere.  Nearby is The Centennial Hall (Hala Ludowa), a building built in 1913, the first building made with reinforced concrete., a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006.  Behind that are the Japanese Gardens also built in 1913 as part of the Centennial exhibition in Gardening Art.  It has female cascades on one side, gentle and slow, and on the other side male cascades, torrential curtains of water  A wooden chapel from the 1600s stood in the part, this one moved from Sweden, but apparently similar to Protestant chapels built after the 30 years war when the Catholics gave them a bunch of rules (things like “no nails”) which were designed to make it difficult.  
We had a traditional Polish snack of waffles and watched a water show before we headed home. What a great day!

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