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Olsztyn

Country
Poland
State
Warmian-Masurian
City
Olsztyn
Type of Location
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By Air

The administrative borders of Olsztyn, civil works and sports airport Olsztyn-Dajtki.The airport is located in a residential Dajtki, about 4.5 km from the city center.From the airport uses include Warmia and Mazury Aeroclub and Air Rescue.

By Train

The first railway line passing through Olsztyn was opened in 1872.Olsztyn soon became a railway junction in the region.Currently, the city has three operating stations are Main Olsztyn,Olsztyn Zachodni and Olsztyn Gutkowo.Olsztyn Square - Train Station Olsztyn, the largest in the province of Warmia and Mazury.According to the grading station is a category B. It has a lot of track, station building, ticket office, four covered platforms, locomotive, subway and light semaphores.

By Road

As at 31 December 2006, in Olsztyn county is 13 km of public roads to hard surface and improved 170 km of public roads to hard surface, including the 164 km road surfaces have improved.Olsztyn not have a bypass and the majority of transit traffic is carried through the streets of the city.Currently, agreements and design work associated with determining its route.According to the assumptions of Olsztyn bypass should be built until 2013.The work also continues lobbying for the modernization of national roads in the region and build on their base of expressways.The topics are intended to be taken of construction of Expressway S16, S51 express road, and S53 express road.Pulaski Square is one of the few roundabouts in Europe which is located inside parking, bus transportation and a toilet, a rondo itself has a rectangular shape.

Key places to visit
Warmia Chapter Castle, Museum of Warmia and Mazury, Museum of Sports, Home Newspapers Olsztynska, Palace of the Morag, Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions


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Warmia Chapter Castle

The castle was the seat of earthly goods Administrator Warmian.The most famous acting administrator of such obligations in the years 1 516 - one thousand five hundred twenty-one was Nicholas Copernicus.The largest exhibition hall is the former refectory of the subtle crystal vault of approximately 1520.Today the castle houses the Museum of Warmia and Mazury .The castle was built in the years one thousand three hundred forty-six - 1353 , consisted of one wing on the north-eastern side of the rectangular courtyard . Walk to the castle, surrounded by a belt of ramparts and a moat leading to the Łyna drawbridge. South-west wing of the castle was built in the fifteenth century.The castle houses a permanent exhibition of the Copernican (located in two areas: the cloister and the room which was once a private dwelling administrator).On the wall of the cloister is placed an enormous array of experimental in 1517, made personally by Nicolaus Copernicus.

Museum of Warmia and Mazury

The first museum in Olsztyn was opened in July 1921.It was then of a regional museum plebiscytowo-ethnographic.The management of the museum was then in the hands of teachers Olsztyn: Leonard Fromm - archaeologist and Hugo Hermann Gross - teacher Luisenschule nature.The date of founding the Museum of Warmia and Mazury accepted 29 March 1945, ie the day of arrival Jerome Skurpskiego to Olsztyn. Initially, it existed under the name " Masurian Museum ", and since 1975 has a "Museum of Warmia and Mazury". Jerome was the director of the museum Skurpski to 1964.The subsequent directors are: Joseph Fajkowski, Boguslaw Kopydlowski, Wladyslaw Ogrodzinski, Jerzy Sikorski and from 1987 Janusz Gypsy.

Museum of Sports

The museum was established with a social initiative in 1988 year.Its first headquarters was at the stadium club lounge OKS (now Sport and Recreation Centre stadium-u ) at al. Pilsudski.The official opening took place on 12 May 1989 year. From 14 October 2004 year the museum is located Hala Urania.20 October 2009 the museum was named after Tadeusz Marian Rapackiego.The museum includes exhibits on athletes coming from Olsztyn and Warmia and Mazury.

Home Newspapers Olsztynska

In the years 1920 - 1 939 in the building housed the editorial and printing of "Gazeta Olsztynska" and a book shop. In November 1939 the building was razed to the ground. After reconstructing and reconstruction, the building was re-opened on September 1 1989.Currently, the building is a branch of the Museum of Warmia and Mazury.The resources of the museum's collections and exhibitions about the history primarily of Olsztyn.Especially prominent are the content associated with the tradition of the Polish press in the Warmia and Mazury.In front of the building there is also a bookstore, "ambassador".

Palace of the Morag

The palace along with a small team of park located in the Morag in the county Ostroda in Warmia and Mazury.Built between 1562-1571 in the style of the Baroque, as a city residence of Prussian family of noble zu Dohna, rebuilt several times.Today it houses the Museum.Johann Gottfried Herder, a branch of the Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.The palace is situated in the center of Morag, about 46 miles northwest of Olsztyn, 45 km east of Elblag and 28 km north of Ostróda.The city cross provincial roads No 519, 527 and 528 located near the lake Skiertag.

Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions

is a art gallery in Warsaw, the central cultural institution in the years 1949 to 1989 exists. CBWA was established in 1949 by the Ministry of Culture and the Arts at the request of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers based in the palace of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts from 1950 formed branches in major cities in the country, documenting the history of contemporary art in 1989 transformed into the National Gallery of Art Encouragement branches Office usamodzielnily up.

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