Olomouc - Zilina

Olomouc-Zilina pictures from our summer holiday 2010
Horní náměstí A panorama of Horní náměstí, behind me is Olomouc town hall : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-2 Olomouc : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-3 Sloup Nejsvětější Trojice : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-4 Olomouc : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
Olomouc-6 Balloons : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-7 Olomouc : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-8 Pepsi-Cola : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-9 St. Wenceslas Cathedral, The cathedral towers are indelibly linked with the panorama of the town. The southern tower, exactly 100.65 metres in height, is actually the highest church spire in Moravia (and the second highest in the Czech Republic). The three-aisled hall of the church comes from the original medieval layout. The Gothic pillars of this hall come from the 13th century. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
Olomouc-10 St. Wenceslas Cathedral : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-11 Nice lantern on the wall of the Town Hall : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-12 A giant turtle : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Olomouc-14 Olomouc Town Hall, Construction of the Olomouc Town Hall was officially allowed by a privilege from the year 1378. It originally consisted of a wooden structure which consequently burned down at the beginning of the 15th century. New construction began up again at the beginning of the 1420s. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
Olomouc-5 The Olomouc astronomical clock is situated in the northern wall of the Town Hall. Its architectonic frame is made up of a recess with a pointed arch reaching a height of almost fourteen metres. The present-day appearance is from the 1950s and is a product of the former official aesthetic of socialist realism. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-1 Petrov, The Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul (Petrov) is one of the dominating features of the city of Brno. A Norman church was originally on this site; in the 14th century, it was re-built in the Gothic style. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-3 The House of Four Giants, Established in the years 1901–1902 for the foundation of V. Gerstbauer. Germano Wanderley designed the palace facade, and the four giants (by A. Tomola) became a critical point of interest. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-4 Brno layers : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
Brno-5 Stone cross next to Petrov : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-6 Older and newer Brno as seen from the Old Town : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-7 Brno door : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-8 Somewhat skinny horse : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
Brno-9 Brno : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-10 Parnasus Fountain, in the Middle of the Cabbage Market. The fountain was built in 1669 and was a source of water for a major part of the town of Brno. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-11 Brno : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-12 Brno, Old Town Hall’s gate. Anton Pilgram made this decoration in 1511, a legend says that he was not happy with the amount paid, and for this reason he bent the middle spire. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
Brno-13 Masarykova crab : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-14 Nice balcony in Brno : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-15 Brno, Kostel Sv. Jakuba Vetsiho (The Church of Saint James the Great). This building was constructed in the 15th century on the ruins of the former Romanesque Church of St. James (13th century). : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma Brno-16 Starobrno with fish : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
Brno-17 Colourful Brno wall : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma velehrad monastery-1 The Velehrad Cistercian Monastery with the Basilica of St. Cyril and St. Methodius. Velehrad is one of the most significant pilgrimage sites in Moravia. It is connected with the seat of Moravian rulers and with the place from which Christianity spread on the paths of Saints Cyril and Methodius. Velehrad dates to the early 13th century, when the Moravian count Vladislav Jindrich, together witSaints Cyril and Methodiush his brother King Premysl Otakar I, founded the first Cistercian monastery in Moravia. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma uherske hradiste-1 Uherské Hradiště was founded in 1257 by the Czech king Otakar II. The city is a center of Moravian Slovakia, a region known for its characteristic folklore, music, wine, costumes and traditions. There are 26000 inhabitants. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma trencin-1 The Trenčín synagogue belongs to the most exquisite and interesting works of its type in Slovakia. It was built close to an earlier synagogue. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
trencin-2 Kids having fun in Trencin : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma trencin-3 Piarist Church of St. Francis Xaverský, Trenčín, 1653 on the right, on the left is The Lower City Gate, built on the 15th century. Behind it the Synagogue : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma trencin-4 Roman Catholic Church of the Birth of Virgin Mary, Built in 1324, on the foundation of a 13th. century building, the church is a three-nave Basilica-type structure with a simple right-angle presbytery and a protruding-front-poschurchitioned tower on the west side. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma trencin-5 Trenčín castle was built over a settlement site that had existed from the Bronze Age through times of Celts and Germanic tribes to the Slavic settlement. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
trencin-6 Flowers in display : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma trencin-7 Trenčín castle. On the locality of today´s castle was built a bulwark in the times of Great Moravia, serving as a community centre. Contemporary castle arose in the 11th century as a borderland stronghold watching important Váh fords and Carpathian passes, through which there led mercantile routes, merging the territory of Northern Hungary and Middle-Slovak mining towns with Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Poland. In the next centuries it became the domicile of borderland commitat, royal and later aristocratic county. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma trencin-8 An Angel : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma trencin-9 Resting with flowers : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma
zilina-1 Žilina is a city in north-western Slovakia, around 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the capital Bratislava. It is the fourth largest city of Slovakia with a population of around 85,000, an important industrial centre, the largest city on the Váh river, and the seat of a kraj (Žilina Region) and of an okres (Žilina District). It belongs to Upper Váh region of tourism. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, Slovakia, loma, Žilina zilina-2 Zilina old Town Hall has undergone several reconstructions. Its present appearance is from 1890. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, loma zilina-3 Žilina is a city in north-western Slovakia, around 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the capital Bratislava. It is the fourth largest city of Slovakia with a population of around 85,000, an important industrial centre, the largest city on the Váh river, and the seat of a kraj (Žilina Region) and of an okres (Žilina District). It belongs to Upper Váh region of tourism. : 2010, Keski-Eurooppa, Slovakia, loma, Žilina