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The Lublin Castle is one of the architectural and historical symbols of Lublin. It is believed that already in the VI century AD there was an early medieval settlement at the Castle Hill, as the natural values of the hill favored the establishment of a defensive, wooden structure. In the XII century it was a seat of a castellan, and in the XIII century a tower called donjon was built that we can admire to this day. The crucial date in the history of the castle was the year 1341, when the Tatars invaded Lublin. After this event, king Casimir the Great decided to built a brick castle in place of ...
The necropolis at Lipowa street in Lublin is one of the oldest and most valuable in Poland. It consists of four parts: the roman catholic from 1794, protestant (evangelical) from the 1830s, the orthodox from 1840 and the military-municipal from 1915. ...
The history of the school dates back to 1866, when it was founded as a Sunday school of commerce. The eclectic building, designed by Józef Holewiński and Teofil Wiśniewski, was built between 1906 and 1907. It was funded by a renowned philanthropist and a Lublin-based industrialist – August Karol Vetter. It was the first educational institution in Poland that received tsar’s approval for teaching in polish. Among the graduates were Jerzy de Tramecourt – the last Lublin governor before the war and Boleslaw Bierut, the president of the Polish People’s Republic, whose hometown was ...
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