Poland

Warsazawa - Pomnik Fryderyka Chopina

The Monument to Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer, in Warsaw's Łazienki Park.

The original statue was destroyed by the Germans during the World War II occupation of Warsaw, but was recast after the war from the original mold.  It was one of the first signs of Polish culture that the German's targeted for destruction.  Legend has it that the day afterword a sign appeared where the statue had stood saying  "I don’t know who destroyed me, but I know why: so that I won’t play the funeral march for your leader."^[

Poland

Torun - Grod Mikolaja Kopernika

The City of Nicholas Copernicus

Poland

Łańcut

Łańcut, pronounced "wein-soot" in southern Poland in the Subcarpathian area of Poland.

Italy

Rome

An old postcard of the interior of The Coliseum

USA - Indiana

Purdue University

This card features the Engineering Fountain, with the bell tower, and Hovde Hall of Purdue University.  During the summer months students routinely run through the fountain to cool off from the summer heat or lay out on the accompanying stone and parkway. 

Spain

Throughout Spain, domes inspired by the Islamic buildings of the moors are dramatic and enduring focal points of the changing cityscape, as in this bright blue-and-white dome that echoes the ever-changing sky.

Spain

A seventeenth-century house in Esplugas, a charming village on the outskirts of Barcelona, boasts wooden beams and plaster walls painted in the nineteenth century.

Spain

An African bird, two Mexican crosses, and a carved wooden angel are arranged on and near a large Guatemalan table in a whitewashed stone house on the island of Mallorca.

Spain

In a traditional whitewashed house on the island of Minorca, antique puppets are crowded into a build-in cupboard that closes with an Art Nouveau-style carved wood and glass door.

Spain

A wrought-iron balustrade details each of the windows that open onto the courtyard of Antonio Gaudi's La Pedrera apartment building in Barcelona.

And thus we begin another week of Spainish postcards from my friend Mark.  For further information on the building, check out its Wikipedia page here.