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@dcro the nations which already submitted their votes are now marked on orange.

 

Exactly 7 days left to vote: @titicow @Laraja @Federer91 @intoronto @Vic Liu @Hipooo @Agger @Wumo @Finnator123 @Bohemia @Benolympique @catgamer @Makedonas @Yannakis @Fly_like_a_don @OlympicIRL @Dnl @SteveParker @Gianlu33 @Pablita @Henry_Leon @Ruslan @Glen @mrv86 @Braulio @Ionoutz24 @heywoodu @Wanderer @Skijumpingmaster @kungshamra71 @IoNuTzZ @NikolaB @hckošice @justony @Cobi @Belle @amen09 @dezbee2008 @Olympian1010 weekend is coming, I'm hoping for couple of messages with your votes in coming days :d 

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My votes will definitely come, unlike usually is the case I have already listened to all songs several times :p 

 

Didn't really rank them yet, but that won't be too hard when most of them are clear in my mind.

If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here!

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And we are off!

 

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In late February, at the beginning of the TAISC 2021, organizing committee promised take everyone to the trip around Poland and now keeps the word! From today until the day of the Opening Ceremony we will show a beautiful and important places around whole country.

I believe that when the world will come back to normal, in some time, many of you will want visit those places personally. Without further ado...

 

We will start with... Monuments of history! It's one of the forms of protection of monuments in Poland, specified in the Act on the protection and care of monuments. It is awarded to immovable monuments of special historical, scientific and artistic value, settled in the public awareness and of great importance for the cultural heritage of Poland.

 

The list of historical monuments is open. It contains objects and areas representing the most outstanding group of monuments, reflecting the richness and diversity of cultural heritage in the country. These include, apart from individual objects, also the Old Town complexes, composed cultural landscapes, works of defensive construction, battlefields, canals, building complexes and monastic complexes.

 

The purpose of establishing historical monuments is to distinguish the most valuable and most important historic buildings in Poland.

 

First monument will be presented in just few minutes...

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18 hours ago, rybak said:

@dcro the nations which already submitted their votes are now marked on orange.

 

Exactly 7 days left to vote: @titicow @Laraja @Federer91 @intoronto @Vic Liu @Hipooo @Agger @Wumo @Finnator123 @Bohemia @Benolympique @catgamer @Makedonas @Yannakis @Fly_like_a_don @OlympicIRL @Dnl @SteveParker @Gianlu33 @Pablita @Henry_Leon @Ruslan @Glen @mrv86 @Braulio @Ionoutz24 @heywoodu @Wanderer @Skijumpingmaster @kungshamra71 @IoNuTzZ @NikolaB @hckošice @justony @Cobi @Belle @amen09 @dezbee2008 @Olympian1010 weekend is coming, I'm hoping for couple of messages with your votes in coming days :d 

Thank you for reminding me without tagging :hatoff:

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Kórnik Castle

 

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The current look of the castle resembles Gothic Revival architecture, one of the popular historicising styles in the 19th century. The main entrance to the castle is located at the northern side. Its characteristic feature is a four-centred arch at the top of the window above the entrance. Up until the interwar period the castle was entered through the so-called babiniec - a barbican-shaped chamber which was subsequently demolished in the years 1925–1939.

 

The western side of the castle features an expanded terrace overlooking Lake Kórnik. The southern side is dominated by a chaitya arch, which was probably modelled on the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and the Islamic architecture of India. On the eastern side, there is a Gothic Revival tower whose red brick façade clearly contrasts with the rest of the castle. The tower was erected during the remodelling of the castle by Tytus Działyński.

 

Also near the entry to the Kórnik Castle, there are historic outbuildings and a carriage house.

 

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The castle is surrounded by Kórnik Arboretum founded by Count Tytus Działyński in the first half of the 19th century - the oldest and largest one in Poland as well as the fourth largest arboretum in Europe covering around 40 hectares and containing more than 3300 taxa of trees and shrubs which includes rich collections of rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias, conifers, lilacs, apple trees, cherries, meadowsweets, honeysuckles, poplars, birches, and other woody species from all over the world. Old specimens of native and alien trees and shrubs can be seen there, such as lindens, beeches, oaks, maidenhair trees, arborvitaes, spruces, and firs.

 

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The first outstanding representative of the Działyński family was Teofila Szołdrska-Potulicka née Działyńska (1714-1790). After the death of her first husband, Stefan Szołdrski, and the divorce from the second Aleksander Potulicki, Teofila devoted her life to the cultural and economic development of Kórnik and the reconstruction of the residence in the middle of the 18th century. Next to the castle, she arranged a French-style garden (now, after reconstruction in the 19th century, earlier mentioned arboretum), established tree nurseries and a zoo with exotic plants and animals, and took care of the city's development, bringing German colonial craftsmen to it. The castle itself was completely rebuilt in the baroque style.

 

The portrait of Teofila in a white dress, painted by Antoine Pesne, preserved to this day in the castle, gave rise to the legend of the White Lady - one of the most famous ghosts in Polish castles.

 

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