- Gartz (Oder) Germany
- Szczecin, Poland old town
- churches in Szczecin
- Kasprowicza Park
- Cmentarz Centralny (Central Cemetery)
- Cafe 22
- The Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Philharmonic
- Szczecin at night
- The Oder river in Szczecin
- Chrobry Embankment
- Szczecin Town hall
- The beach off the Baltic
- Międzywodzie: a small town near the Baltic
- Międzyzdroje: a tourist town near the Baltic
Firstly, I would like to thank my dear friend, Anna Liwinska! Without her by my side, without her love of photography, knowledge of the places we visited, ability to translate into English, beautiful smile and laugh, this wonderful Polish adventure of mine would not have been possible. Dzienkuje, moja droga przyjaciolka! English: Thank you my dear friend! :-)
This week I will be reliving the experiences that I had at Kasprowicza Park. I tried to give as many details as I could recall about this beautiful place in Szczecin! I hope that you enjoy the journey! :-)
4) Kasprowicza Park was very well maintained and had so much natural beauty with well made man made structures that complimented into the nature setting quite well! There were two beautiful monuments near the entrance of the park, one for St. John Paul the Second and another monument for the Polish Endeavor. The monument to St. John Paul the Second shows the former Pope welcoming in the viewer with a raised arm to heaven, standing on a stone platform with an offering table before the monument on the stone walk. The monument to the Polish Endeavor conveys a feeling of great awesomeness and noble spirit. Three giant eagles are perched at different levels on steel columns in the middle of the stone walk. The monument was made in order to thank the society of Szczecin for rebuilding and expanding the city after the second world war. I would like to mention the Ciuchcia or train for children that circled part of the park before I move on! It really brought a smile to my face when I saw it ciuchciaing past! :-)
We continued up the stone path and through a grove of trees till we arrived at the Rusalka Lake. This beautiful clean body of water provide a pleasant stroll along for residence and visitors alike as well as a place for many ducks which brought extra enjoyment to my sight seeing visit. There was also a curious sight, later revealed to me to be a duck protest! This involved several floating plastic duck with signs mounted on their backs. These signs gave instructions on how to feed the ducks. After our time along the Rusalka we walked back up the hill and up another hill till we arrived on another path that lead to the the Summer Theater of Helena Majdaniec. This is an enormous amphitheater where concerts, festivals, and sometime national holidays are celebrated. It was quite amazing like walking into a world both natural and modern. One path leading to and from the theater had a very Stonehenge like vibe to it with large stone slabs of slightly different heights standing up along one side of the walk. The theater was made of a giant gray arch, a suspended roof that reminded me of sails on a ship or the fins of a fish, a stage underneath, and a tremendous semicircle of wooden benches mounted in a gradually elevating cement platform. It was fun to walk around the giant structure, sit solitary in the benches, and take pictures of the impressive feat of polish architecture.
The last piece I want to mention is that after we walked up and out of the theater and through another grove of trees, we spotted a very interesting art piece. It reminded me allot of the lawn ornaments know as spinners that had been so popular in America around ten or so years ago. This sculpture, “Fire Birds” is made of many colors birds, wheels, and fire like ray shapes seemingly advancing along the platform in which they are mounted. To me this has a flavor of some of the more traditional bird and folk imagery of Poland.
Thank you my wonderful friend for coming on this journey with Anna an I to Kasprowicka Park! I hope that you had a joyous time! May our daily lives be enriched in such a way that we find more to notice and more to value as everyday can be an exciting adventure if we allow it! :-) Next week I will relive another segment of my Polish journey, so won't you come along with me! I hope to see you there! Until then... Milego dnia! Milosc i pokoj dla ciebie!Translates to, “Have a great day! Love and peace to you!” Love, Aaron :-)