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Strazky Chateau 1/2


Strazky Chateau 1/2
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Copyright: Elzbieta Bielaszewska (elkab) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 190 W: 39 N: 111] (1293)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-24
Categories: Castles
Camera: Canon 300D
Exposure: f/4.5, 30 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-09-07 13:06
Viewed: 892
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Strazky Chateau is situated in Spisska Bela in Slovakia.
The town of Spisska Bela lies in the northern part of the Poprad Basin, at 631 meters above sea - level. Its territory takes in the Bela Tatra mountains and the flatter lands of basin wher the torrents of the High Tatras flow down to join the River Poprad. One of them, the stream called Biela (" white water"), gave the town its name.
The centre of the historical settlement of Strazky - the chateau, the Church of St. Anne and the belfry - forms a national cultural monument and counts as one of the most precious architectural sights of the Spis region. The reconstructed chateau, located in the 19th century English park, shows the development of architectural styles ranging from late Gothic (15th century) to the Renaissance reconstruction and finally to Baroque-Classicist modifications (from the end of the 18th century). In the 16th - 18th centuries the chateau belonged to the Horvath-Stansith's, the family that founded, in that very building, the Latin humanistic school for the children of the Spis aristocracy (1584-1711) and the library, the largest in Hungary at that time. In the 19th century, the Mednyanszky's and the Czobel's became the chateau owners. After the death of the last owner and inhabitant of the chateau, Baroness M. Czobel, in 1972, the Slovak National Gallery became its custodian.

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  • oleg Silver Star Critiquer [C: 16 W: 5 N: 7] (78)
  • [2005-09-07 13:35]

Very nice picture
Very good color and good harmony between the grass, the castle and the sky
The little piece of water in the buttom of the picture disturbes me because it draws the attention from the castle
Best regsrds Oleg

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  • Booz Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 475 W: 14 N: 130] (10341)
  • [2005-09-08 7:17]

Witaj Ela :) - fajnie że to miejsce pokazujesz bo jeszcze tam nie byłem a widzę że warto...
Pozdrawiam
Tomek

No niezłe, fajnie Ci wyszło to odbicie Fragmentu kasztelu w kałuży, dobra gra cieni na tej fotce. Mały minusik za kolory - mogłyby być trochę lepsze. Pozdrawiam! Andrzej

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