Rzeszow
Monument of the Revolutionary Deed
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Monument of the Revolutionary Deed is also known as the Revolutionary Memorial Walk and concerns, of course, battles waged in the Rzeszow region. This monument from the beginning aroused much controversy, and various associations. In the stylized laurel leaves some people saw a donkey ears, others had a more obscene connotations. [Rzeszow]
Orthodox church in Rzeszow
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Orthodoxy in Rzeszow dates back to the old days. The records of the municipal court in Przemysl signify that in 1499 there were three Orthodox temples and two monasteries in the city, including the Monastery of St. Nicholas. In 1580 Katarzyna Wapowska, the castellan of Przemysl, began the attempts to destroy Orthodoxy in the region.[Rzeszow]
The Church of the Saint Cross
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The Church of the Saint Cross and the monastery complex of Piarists is situated at 3- go Maja Street, the former district called Paniaga. The Church was being erected by a bricklayer Jan Canger in the late Renaissance style between 1644-1649. The facade was made between 1705-1707 according to the design of an architect Tymlan from Gameren.[Rzeszow]
The Church of Saints Adalbert and Stanislaw
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The Church of Saints Adalbert and Stanislaw is the original parish in Rzeszow with more than a dozen parishes added in Rzeszow over time. It dates back to 1354-1363 Wniebowziecia NMP, the Church of the Assumption, has its roots in 1513 but it was a Bernardine cloister. The Church of the Holy Cross, has its roots in 1645, but it was a cloister of the Poor Clares and became a parish church only in 1989.[Rzeszow]
Old Cemetery
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Old Age necropolis cemetery is hiding the remains of several generations of Rzeszow people. Old Cemetery was founded in the late eighteenth century after the adoption by the Austrian authorities ban the burial of the dead churches. Initially, it was a small area of the church, then in nineteenth century, it was enlarged to the present size. Officially Old Cemetery was open in 1910; occasionally even the dead were buried here after the last war.[Rzeszow]
Bernardine Monastery Defence Complex
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The Bernardine Monastery Defence Complex is one of the most valuable monuments of the sacral art in Rzeszow. The Bernardine monastery defence complex is late-Renaissance building with Baroque elements. The walls are covered with Rococo polychromy from approximately the 18th century. Sepulchral monuments of the Ligeza family attract visitors’ attention in the presbytery. The historic Monastery of Bernardine Church of magnificent Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a famous place of pilgrimage. [Rzeszow]
3 Maja Street
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The main road that forms part of the City Centre starting from May 3 Street. For many years it is the main promenade and shopping center of Rzeszow city center. Street buildings are mostly small, simple, in the form of residential buildings, and in part, representative public buildings. In the years 1950-1960, most of the old houses has undergone a thorough restaurant, during which simplifies their architectural design. Corner of the square parish house of the House of Books bookstore was built around 1840 by F. Skielski, who arranged the first there in Rzeszow printing, which adhere to the eighteenth and nineteenth-century historical houses.[Rzeszow]
University of Rzeszow
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The University of Rzeszow started his activity on September 1, 2001. University was established through the merger of Pedagogical University of Rzeszow, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University of Lublin, Rzeszow branch, Rzeszow Economy Faculty of the Agricultural Academy of Cracow. The University is a state institution. [Rzeszow]
Lubomirski Summer Palace
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Walking through the most picturesque street in the city centre of Rzeszow, called Under the Chestnut Trees Alley, you will find yourselves in the direct neighbourhood of the Lubomirski Summer Palace. The attractiveness of this place is emphasized by exclusive Art Nouveau houses which constitute the heart of an antique residential district. To this day the late-baroque style palace, situated on the corner of Dekerta Street and Lubomirski Alley, is the most beautiful aristocratic residence of the Sub-Carpathian region.[Rzeszow]
Lubomirski Castle
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The Castle is a spacious, quadrate building with the courtyard in the centre and the high gate tower from the west. It is surrounded by the quadrilateral bastion fortification made of stone with extended bastions on the corners. Height of the stone walls reaches up to 5 metres. The remnants of dry moats are situated on the northern and eastern sides. The six- storeyed gate tower is 55 metres high, moreover, it is covered with the dome renovated in 1906 in accordance with the primary Baroque pattern.[Rzeszow]
Town Hall
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The most impressive building in the Market Hall is standing alone in a corner of the western frontage. The beginnings of his rise back to the late sixteenth century, and it was built probably before 1591, but on the walls of an earlier building. It can be concluded that the Town Hall was originally quite different. Building was transformed in the eighteenth century in classical style and in such form survived until the mid-nineteenth century. [Rzeszow]
Market Square
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Old Town Square Center is holding a non-uniform quadrilateral shape with dimensions about 100 x 50 m. The shape of the market and its environment differs slightly from the original appearance, is much larger and the west does not have a building. The market has actually built only three frontages - the southern, eastern and northern. The building frontage lacking today is only the western town hall. The current buildings in the west are the buildings located at J. Slovak Street. Preserved buildings form a three-story Market frontage or less two-storey houses damaged during the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.[Rzeszow]
Carpathian Philharmonic
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Philharmonic Hall Carpathian them. A. Malawski in Rzeszow was built between 1967 – 1973. The building houses a concert hall of the amphitheater audience of 800 seats, a cozy room for 300 seats, with convenient facilities. The origins date back to 1954, the Philharmonic is then formed in Rzeszow social symphony orchestra, four years later transformed into the National Symphony Orchestra, and in 1967 renamed the Philharmonic, which was named after Arthur Malawski, renowned composer and teacher of conducting and composition.[Rzeszow]
Diocesan Museum
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Diocesan Museum was opened in 1998. Headquarters is located in a historic building Diocese in Rzeszow, adapted for this purpose basement. Responsible for his conduct of the director, appointed for this purpose by the Bishop of Rzeszow.[Rzeszow]
Private Military and Technical Museum
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Technology and Military Museum was established under the patronage of Mayor of Rzeszow - Tadeusz Ferenc. With the support of many individuals and organizations have been carried out renovation and modernization works for the exhibition of individual rooms. The museum has a collection of restored vintage cars Polish and French production of the 50's, including cars, "Warsaw", "Siren", "Citroen" and antique motorcycles, including "Sokol", "Ganger" and "Java". [Rzeszow]
Bedtime Cartoons Museum
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The history of the Bedtime Cartoons Museum began with the idea of Wojciech Jama, the collector who made a gift of the memorabilia he collected for many years to the city of Rzeszow with the intention of establishing a local government museum. It was lucky to arrange this magical place with him and organize the exhibition, which first visitors could see on 27 February 2009. Bedtime Cartoons Museum was officially opened on March 22 , in the presence of Cartoons enthusiasts, by Filip and Martynka children accompanying the President of the City, Tadeusz Ferenc, who is an admirer of Rumcajs in private. For nearly two years the museum was located in a small in a historic town house on 8 Slowackiego Street and was visited by over 45,000 people. [Rzeszow]
Regional Museum
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The Regional Museum in Rzeszow comprises many departments of a regional, but not provincial character, in terms of the exhibits and the collection-keeping activities. The Archaeological Department looks after the sources which enable us to learn the earliest history of human beings and their culture. The items come mainly from excavation sites. Although many of these artefacts are of a unique character, all of them bear witness to the various settlement activities which began in the region during the Stone Age. It is the largest collection of archaeological items in the south-east of Poland.[Rzeszow]
