Sunday, September 11, 2011

Krakow: checking out the sights

This morning was rather chaotic; we made a strategic mistake to go to the cathedral & the castle on a Saturday, along with a gazillion others. I am not sure that the Polish Royal Architects don’t need to reconsider: stone, brick & stucco all within a few feet of each other (and yes, I do realize they were hundreds of years apart).


However, the St. Mary’s church interior designers certainly know how to lay on a spread.


And the Jewish quarter finally begins to recover in small numbers but the area still retains its genteel shabbiness, at least for now. Adding insult to injury, the anti-Semitic campaign of the 1960s had caused most of the few remaining holocaust survivors to finally abandon Poland.

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