KRAKOW OLD TOWN AND MAIN MARKET SQUARE

        The  symbol of the city known as the city of king  is monster.  But, this monster is now chaming.  Krakow has  Europe's  oldest old  town square as well as Europe's oldest  covered  bazaar.

The historic city which was entered from seven doors, was built in the 7th century.  In 1978,  it was taken on the Unesco World  Heritage  List. The Main Square of Krakow is one of the most visited sights of the city. People should visit that place for its magnificient buildings, churches  a big covered bazaar. The most striking places in the square are St.Mary Church and Covered Bazaar.

       I think it is the most beautiful and magnificient square of  Poland with its historical buildings, sculptures,  cafes,  restaurants and fancy horse carriages.  Our Project team visited Krakow while we were in Poland. The weather was cold and rainy on that day. However, we had a lot of fun. We walked around, we bought some souvenirs and went to cafes. It was a wonderful day for us. I think, it is the most beautiful Market Square I've ever seen. I liked the lovely atmosphere, good prices for food and drinks. It was just amazing. It wasn't expensive to sit in the cafes and restautrants. The architecture is fantastic.

      I hope to visit and see there again and I recomend to everyone to see and visit Krakow,Poland.

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Auschwitz in Krakow,Poland

            In the Polish lands captured by Nazi Germany, many death camps were established. The biggest intention of these camps were to destroy the Jews in a mass. Auschwitz is one of the  biggest death camp in Poland.

PESTERA URSILOR ( THE BEARS CAVE)

          by Beyza GÜNEŞ and Yağmur TÜRKER         

            There are lots of caves in Romania and one of them is the Bears Cave.We knew that Transylvania  is famous for its caves before visiting there.

We visited some of the caves while we were in Beius. When we saw them we were really fascinated.

Meziad Cave

by Karolina Łosoń
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

    On the first day of our visit to Romania we saw the Meziad cave, which because of its unique character is a nature reserve. It was discovered in 19th century, but wasn’t open for tourists till the 70’s of 20th century, it could only be done after detailed recognition and constructing of the paths. Nowadays the cave is popular among the tourists but doesn’t seem to be too commodified.
  
     Before our trip to Romania we were searching for information about the cave on the Internet, and on the many websites tourists advised taking a light torch due to the lack of electricity in the cave. On the spot it turned out that the advice was out of date as in the autumn 2012 there were some renovation works – the paths were rebuilt and the lighting was installed, according to modern technologies, which enable protecting the cave’s environment.

Transylvanian salty flavour - the Salt Mine in Turda

by Martyna Kocurek and Marcelina Ścierska
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

     Can you imagine Transylvania 13 million years ago? Climate was very warm and wet and the region was covered by the sea. Then climate got drier and drier, the disappearing sea left salt behind - the salt still remains. People tried to extract sodium chloride as long ago as in Roman times, but it was not earlier than in 17th century, when the salt mine in Turda was open. The salt mine functioned till 1932. Later it was used for storage of cheese or bombproof shelter during World War II. In 1992 it became a tourist attraction – one of the largest and oldest mines in Europe. We were lucky to visit it during our last project meeting.

Squares of Budapest

St. Stephen's Square

by Katarzyna Spyra, Daria Lach
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

     It’s easy to find the answer for the question: which square is the most important in Cracow? - as its name suggests: the Main Square. In Madrid the answer is more complicated. Writing the articles about the squares in Cracow and Madrid we took into account Plaza Mayor and Puerta del Sol you can read about it here:

Squares of Madrid and Cracow

During our journey to Romania we stopped in Budapest and decided to focus on the squares once again, we were wondering which square in Hungarian capital city is the most significant. But as in Madrid the answer turned out to be tricky. There are a few candidates for the title of the most crucial place in Budapest so it’s not easy to create the ranking. In the article we present you a few places, we have visited, and their different functions.

Romania: Looking to the future

By Pablo Rodeiro Rañales, 4th year ESO.

Taking into account its communist past and all it meant to the country, Romania has already travelled a stretch of the road to democracy, and, therefore, a way to modernization, improvements on road infrastructure, education and agriculture... Some towns and cities have been restored recently, becoming attractive spots to the visitor, like Oradea, for example.

STREET ART SPREADS ITS WINGS

By several students at IES de Catabois.

Street art or the expression of artists on the walls of many European towns and cities today has provided them with a new image, as you can see in the photograph below. It is called Polish-Hungarian Friendship Tree and shows the close connection between the Polish and Hungarian cultures. There is a text on the mural which reads:
“Hungary and Poland are two forever-living oaks, which have their own trunks, but their roots are far beneath the earth: they have joined and invisibly merged. So the existence and strength of each one is tied to life and health of the other.” — Stanislaw Worcell