Thursday, October 18, 2007

Poland

KRAKOW


I think this is a castle museum. Maybe. I forget.


Rynek Glowny - Old Town square


Interior of the church on the square


Random church


Wawel Castle


Entrance to Wawel Castle


Wawel Castle interior


Cathedral inside the Wawel Castle grounds


Tomb of Tadeusz Kosciuszko. He was the leader of the 1794 uprising against Russia, and was a colonel and the head engineer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Pretty cool guy.


Polish beer wasn't great


Oskar Schindler's factory


The stairway was a famous scene in Schindler's List

AUSCHWITZ


Gate to the main compound


Barbed wire fence


Halt!


Perimeter


Execution wall


Patrol route for guards


Crematorium


Auschwitz II-Birkenau train tracks


Auschwitz II-Birkenau compound, left


Auschwitz II-Birkenau compound, center


Auschwitz II-Birkenau compound, right

WIELICZKA SALT MINE


Stairway into the depths of the mine. 130 meters below ground.


Mine passageway


Last Supper carved right into the rock

WARSAW


Palace of Culture & Science


Another view, in better weather


Street in the Stare Miasto (Old Town)


Warsaw Uprising memorial


Stare Miasto ramparts


Stare Miasto square


Royal Castle


Pompey's head being presented to Caesar. If you watch HBO's Rome, this should be familiar.


Guys admiring their abs

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