Just a few photos from my little meanderings around Lublin one evening last week. This is St Joseph’s Church looking rather lovely illuminated against the night sky. Built for the Discalced Carmelite nuns during the seventeenth century and consecrated in 1644, it has considerably more history than my brief evening photograph can accommodate.
The Kraków Gate formed part of Lublin’s medieval defences, built following the Tatar attack of 1341. It still makes a suitably imposing entrance, although the arrangements for admitting visitors have thankfully become less defensive.
The Kraków Gate from inside the Old Town, showing the mixture of brickwork and later additions above its medieval entrance. Its name recalls the route towards Kraków, although I was planning a rather less ambitious journey back to my accommodation.
Colourful lanterns hang above Bramowa Street, with the medieval Kraków Gate visible at the end. A rather cheerful addition to a street whose earlier visitors would have had to manage without quite so much assistance with their holiday photographs.
The Trinitarian Tower rises beyond the restaurant lights, its present neo-Gothic appearance dating from 1819. Originally a bell tower, it provides a useful landmark when wandering around.