Podróże~Travel

CRIMEA is one of the most interesting sites in the world. It is really worth a long trip to see the beauty of that Black Sea penin­sula, bewitching with its magnificent natural beauty and amazing because of the blending here of cultures and civili­zations. Crimea has a long and uniqu­ely interesting history. It offers tourists not only comparatively new palaces and parks, but also remains of ancient towns and ruins of medieval stron­gholds. There are no literally. “native” in­habitants on Crimean Peninsula. It is the real Babel Tower of nationalities: Rus­sians (over 65%), Ukrainians (approx. 20%), Tatars (10%), Georgians, Jews, Germans, Armenians, Bulgarians, Gre­eks, Belarusian, and Poles, of course.

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Lublin, the largest city in southeastern Poland, is well endowed with historic buildings. It is also an important center of academic life and a city marked with Jewish culture.

The city, with the first permanent settlement on its site estimated to be in the 6^th or 7^th century, has seen and experienced a lot. A target for attacks (Tatars, Swedes, Germans), was destroyed and rebuilt, but also thrived as a great trade center and a meeting place for Polish and Lithuanian nobles. In 1944, after Lublin had been liberated from the Nazis, Poland’s first communist government arrived here on the tanks of the Red Army, making Lublin the capital of Poland for awhile.

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