WROCLAW

I visit Wroclaw summer 2003. In pictures below you can see pictures from the centre of Wroclaw. At right Ostrow Tumski (with cathedral). On following pages you have Hospitality, Surroundings and Friends.

Picture below shows Hala Ludowa were Congress of Intellectual were held 1948 with Pablo Picasso and Irene urie-Joliot. We stayed at the same hotel Monopol as Pablo and Irene in Wroclaw. Hala Ludowa is quite amazing for an old building compared with the Globe in Stockholm.

Irene Curie-Joliot (1897-1958) got Nobel-Price 1935. She was daughter of Marie Curie from Poland who got Nobel-Price (1903 and 1911). Marie discovered Radium and Polonium. Polonium because she was from a village outside Warsaw in Poland. Her parents was Wladyslaw and Bronislawa Sklodowska. Marie liked Poland.

Picture below shows a large wooden gate (SUKIYA) in the Japanese garden in Wroclaw. The garden was founded in 1913 as a part of the Centennial Exhibition in Gardening Art. It have one gently cascade "female" (ONNA-DAK) and one "male" cascade (OTAKO-DAKI) which forms a torrential curtain of water flowing through several streams and reaching the waters of the "female" cascade.

Picture below at right shows a arena planed for Olympic 1936, but the games was moved to Berlin instead. At right you can see two high student buildings, one for women and one for men. At left a rest a short breake at a tea and coffe house.