Next week we set out with Wang Wei and we travel from Krakow, the center of the former Western Galicia to Lemberg/Lwów, the center of the former Eastern Galicia. If you know about any good and inexpensive place where to sleep, or any hidden beauty, not widely known place to visit or a good restaurant to try that you would recommend to us in any of the two cities, we would be very grateful to you.
We will of course give report on the way. Until then let us include here the two photo galleries we have found on a Russian forum, published under the nickname “the Cheshire Cat”. They are beautiful and sensitive photos seeking for the hidden and the personal in the city. In Lwów, as you will see, he had it easier, as erosion does not only open up the physical surfaces of the city, but also everyday life behind the surfaces.
The two details of the map of the main squares of the two cities are taken, quite fittingly, from the Baedeker of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy that I found in the cellar of the Casino of Kőbánya back in the 70s, shortly before the demolition of that important cultural center of my home town. The book is exactly a hundred years old now. The very best guide to the disappeared Galicia.
We will of course give report on the way. Until then let us include here the two photo galleries we have found on a Russian forum, published under the nickname “the Cheshire Cat”. They are beautiful and sensitive photos seeking for the hidden and the personal in the city. In Lwów, as you will see, he had it easier, as erosion does not only open up the physical surfaces of the city, but also everyday life behind the surfaces.
The two details of the map of the main squares of the two cities are taken, quite fittingly, from the Baedeker of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy that I found in the cellar of the Casino of Kőbánya back in the 70s, shortly before the demolition of that important cultural center of my home town. The book is exactly a hundred years old now. The very best guide to the disappeared Galicia.
Come with us to…
Atlantis
Bestiary
Bohemia+Prague
Books, exhibitions, music, film
Brave old world
Caucasus
Cemeteries
Crimea
Get to know the
Images of the East
Lightwriting
Lwów/Lemberg
Mallorca
Message on the wall
The Museum of Propaganda
Odessa
Paper Museum
Persian letters
The Jewish heritage
7 comentarios:
Buon viaggio. Porta con te un po' della nostra curiosità e sii i nostri occhi.
Eso, buen viaje!
¿Cuál es la excusa para el periplo?
Effe: Certo che lo farò. Tanto di più perché i miei occhi sono già influenzati anche degli articoli di Gad Lerner che mi hai indicato sulla zona.
A proposito, hai visto il film “Tutto è illuminato” di Jonathan Safran Foer, che parla di un simile “turismo della memoria”, in qualche zona fra Lvov e, appunto, Odessa?
Julia: La excusa – oh no, la razón necesaria – de la visita solemne es que Wang Wei pueda reconocer también estos principados de su imperio, las Provincias Unidas de Río Wang, y los súbditos fieles y agradecidos puedan expresar su homenaje y reconocimiento de su gobierno iluminado.
Oh, imagino multitudes reverenciando a su amo y señor natural por las calles y callejuelas del reino... (Espero que no me defrauden con las imágenes, entonces)
Vostra Altezza Wang Wei, non ho visto la versione cinematografica, ma naturalmente ho letto il bel libro di Foer
(e ora cerco di cantare, parafrasando Ray Charles, Odessa on my mind)
answering your request on informing you about hidden places etc. i will give a link to mo blog where there is lots of information about Cracow including less known things
http://cracowtour.blogspot.com
Thank you very much! Although this time we are already back, nevertheless I will attentively read it for the next occasion – as Cracow is just some hours away from here, it will come soon –, and will also recommend it on the Hungarian version of the blog.
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