Transcript Vistula River - XCIX LO im. Zbigniewa Herberta w Warszawie

We want to present you with what we saw during
the exchange:
 Warsaw
 Vistula River
 Museum of Art and Crafts
WARSAW
Warsaw
mermaid
Basic
information
about Warsaw
•Is the capital and the largest city of
Poland
• The city area is 516.9 square kilometers
•Warsaw is the 8th largest city in the European Union.
• The population - ca. 3 mln
•Has got an elitary University
History
•The first fortified settlements on the site of today's Warsaw were
Bródno (9th/10th century) and Jazdów (12th/13th century).
•This differentiation and the growing social contrasts resulted in 1525 in
the first revolt of the poor of Warsaw against the rich and the authority
they exercised
•Warsaw remained the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
until 1795, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia to become
the capital of the province of South Prussia.
•During the Second World War, central Poland, including Warsaw,
came under the rule of the General Government, a Nazi colonial
administration.
•In 1945, after the bombing, the revolts, the fighting, and the demolition
had ended, most of Warsaw lay in ruins.
The Vistula
River
Warsaw by
night
The Old Town in
Warsaw
The Palace in Wilanowski
Park
The Palace on the water. Royal
Łazienki in Warsaw
The Wilanów Park
The Palace of Culture and Science
The Warszawa
car
The Palace of the president of
Poland
Origin
Barania Góra, Silesian Beskids
Mouth
Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea
Basic Countries
Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia
Length
1,047 km (651 mi)
Source elevation
1,106 m (3,629 ft)
The reaches of the Vistula are composed of three
stretches:
 upper, from its sources to the city of Sandomierz
 centre, from Sandomierz to the mouth of Narew and Bug
 bottom, from mouth of Narew till Vistula's own delta at the Baltic
 The history of the River Vistula and her valley spans
over 2 million years.
 The river is connected to the geological period called
„the Quaternary” (climate change).
 The last one million years, an ice sheet entered the
area of Poland eight times, bringing along with it
changes of reaches of the river. In warmer periods,
when the ice sheet retreated, the Vistula deepened and
widened its valley.
 The river took its present form inside the last 14
thousand years, after complete recession of the
Scandinavian ice sheet from the area.
In Płock
The collection of the museum is one of the most
precious in Europe.
The museum is located in two buildings - at 2 Tumska
Street and in Granary at 11b Kazimierza Wielkiego
Street.
Now the museum owns about 80 thousand exhibits glass, pottery, jewllery and furniture. Some of them
are of unique style. There is also an abundant
collection of paintings (Józef Chełmoński, Jacek
Malczewski, Julian Fałat, Stanisław Wyspiański) and
Polish sculptures from XIX and XX century
There you can see the flowers, they
are often on the frame. Because
flowers have very soft lines.
Woman are often the subject of the sculptures because women are
very beautiful. And on the sculptures the woman has often the
wings of a butterfly.
This sideboard has symmetry and you can also see the sculpture of a
woman and flowers.
This is a typical
bedroom from the
19th century.
The End
Prepared by:
Julia Zyder
Julia Peszold
Özgü Bas
Weronika Krzyżanowska
Marta Orłowska
Agnieszka Karbowiak