The third face of Nowa Huta in Kraków, perhaps the most surprising to me, is the "natural" one.
It takes about 50 metres of detour from the usual urban area to discover a huge grassy meadow, often frequented by locals to sunbathe and relax. It was so calm and silent my jaw dropped and I couldn't pick it up. The only thing that reminded me I was in one of most populous parts of Kraków was that thermal power plant in the horizon.
My peanut Warsaw brain keeps yapping: how come a housing estate hasn't been built here yet?
President Zelensky and Poland's Prime Minister Tusk agreed to immediately start preparing a security agreement.
The conversation focused on the situation in the Kharkiv region, where Russian forces have launched a new offensive, and Ukraine's air defense needs "to protect Kharkiv and other regions."
According to the president, he and the Polish prime minister also discussed the threat posed by Russia to gas infrastructure in western Ukraine and ways to counter it. #AureFreePress#Poland
Nowa Huta in Kraków (that industrial-ish one I guess)
The other face of Nowa Huta begins as soon as socrealism is abandoned and modernism gets to be all the rage (which is somewhere between late 1950s and 1970s I guess?). I'll be honest though: I know very little about architecture and I may have made factual errors in the previous sentence. All I know is that I'm attracted like a moth to lines, patterns and geometry.
Also, in a weird way that style evokes specific images in my head. I have some kind of synthwave-like nostalgic feelings about Poland as seen by my parents in 1970s and 1980s. All of which is of course fake because I'm not forgetting who ruled the country at that time.
Polacy odchodzą od oglądania tradycyjnej telewizji – w to miejsce na znaczeniu zyskują platformy streamingowe. Co ciekawe, nie tylko te, oferujące swoje usługi w modelu subskrypcyjnym czy abonamencie, ale także bez żadnych opłat.
These are #european bison rather than imports from the #us . Thirty years ago they were almost extinct - small populations in north east #romania and north east #poland They have since been introduced elsewhere - including the #netherlands and even the #english county of #kent - somewhere normally not at all keen on anything #european !
Losses caused by the Polish blockade of the Ukrainian border amounted to $500 million in lost imports and $160 million in exports in its first month, the National Bank of Ukraine said on May 14.
Built from the ground-up as a separate city to settle workers employed in the newly built steelworks (it's even in the name, which literally means 'the new steelworks'). Designed as a poster city for Soviet propagandists. Huge, industrial, pompous. These days it's one of the most populous parts of Kraków, even though it completely didn't feel that way during my long weekend visit.
I barely scratched the surface, as severe planning mistakes were made on my end. Plus I don't like taking cliche postcard photos in harsh light. But I managed to see three different faces of this place and that counts I guess.
We start with the socrealistic face. The one that dates back to 1950s and truly feels different than whatever my peanut Warsaw brain assumed Kraków to be.
Gdzie oglądać transmisje sportowe za darmo? Polacy nie lubią płacić... (interaktywnie.com) Polish
Polacy odchodzą od oglądania tradycyjnej telewizji – w to miejsce na znaczeniu zyskują platformy streamingowe. Co ciekawe, nie tylko te, oferujące swoje usługi w modelu subskrypcyjnym czy abonamencie, ale także bez żadnych opłat.
National Bank: Ukraine's losses from Polish blockade partially offset by maritime trade (kyivindependent.com)
Losses caused by the Polish blockade of the Ukrainian border amounted to $500 million in lost imports and $160 million in exports in its first month, the National Bank of Ukraine said on May 14.