See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt is taking a look at multi-views
After the city's millennium the slogan "Wroclaw - The Meeting Place" started to be used in all sorts of promotional material, and of course postcards. I think the invention of the slogan must derive from the reason the city was founded here by the Oder River, it was the meeting point of two trade routes.
The card shows Top - The City Hall, The Centennial Hall and the tenements Hansel and Gretel the bottom photos The Market Square, the Raclawice Panorama which houses the cycloramic painting of the Battle of Raclawice and for some relaxing downtime The Japanese Garden
The oldest town in Finland and once its capital - Turku. Located on the south west corner of Finland by the Aura River which makes its way through Turku and out into the Baltic Sea.
As a contrast a small place in the northern England formed on farming and making woolen garments. Today it is popular for walkers of the Howgill Fells and book lovers (it is England's official Book Town).
The car shows Weavers Yard, Main Street, and the 12th century Parish Church of St Andrews
8 comments:
I love the image on the left in the Sedbergh card. So rustic and beautiful! Reminds me of old villages in Italy.
The first have such bright blues. I like that. But, it's the last that shows somewhere I'd like to explore. The steps just beg be be climbed!
The idea of an official Book Town with well worn steps to explore is exciting. Wroclaw shows an interesting mix of ancient and 'modern'. I'm a sucker for any building with a clock on it, as the one in Turku.
All these postcards made the places look very appealing -Which I guess is the aim! Thanks for including the description/name for all the pictures. Sometimes that needs a lot of research!
Happily not too much research for Wroclaw was the perfect card, it had a list on the back(in three languages) of all the places.
That's great! I adore when the names come in the back.
Turku in Finland was my hometown before I moved to Åland.
Living the dream! By coincidence the person who sent me the card (which was some time ago) had only moved there the previous year and thought it a "pretty nice place to live".
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