#2 Plakat Polska Jasna Góra - Częstochowa, Poland

The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Polish: Czarna Madonna z Częstochowy; Matka Boska Częstochowska) is a venerated icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary housed at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, Poland.

Częstochowa is regarded as the most popular shrine in Poland, with many Polish Catholics making a pilgrimage there every year. Since 1711, a pilgrimage leaves Warsaw every August 6 for the nine-day, 300km trek. 

 

#1 Plakat Polska Bronowice - Cracow, Poland

Bronowice Małe - an area of ​​Krakow included in District VI Bronowice, a former village near Krakow. It was actually incorporated into Krakow by the Germans in 1941, and formally on January 18, 1945, as the XXXV cadastral district.

On November 20, 1900, the wedding of the poet Lucjan Rydel and Jadwiga Mikołajczykówna, a resident of Bronowice, took place in Włodzimierz Tetmajer's manor house in Bronowice, later called Rydlówka. This event became the basis for the drama Wesele by Stanisław Wyspiański.

 

The Monument to the Sunken Ships - Sevastopol, Russia

The Monument to the Sunken Ships is the symbol of the city of Sevastopol, on the disputed Crimean peninsula. Located in Sevastopol Bay, it was designed by Amandus Adamson and built by Valentin Feldmann in 1905.

 

Mediterranean view - Izmir, Turkey

The beginnings of settlement in Izmir date back to 3000 BC. The times of Alexander the Great brought the city to prosper. He had a fortress built on the Pagus hill and at its foot a new city, to which he relocated the inhabitants of the former Smyrna.