Barskie Housing Estate

Barskie Housing Estate

Winter is beautiful

Winter view of Nowy Sącz from Przekaźnik hill. 

Gołąbkowice shopping centre

Just one year ago we showed you the construction of the Gołąbkowice shopping centre (here). Now it is opened since April and looks like you can see above.

'Three Crowns' Under Construction

Today we want to present other two photos from the place where the new shopping centre is building.

The new shopping mall will be named 'Three Crowns' ("Trzy Korony"). This name probably refers to one of the mountains peak in our neighbourhood (in Pieniny Mountains).

Under construction

Construction of the new shopping center in Nowy Sacz, near to the Barskie housing estate.

They started to build it in June this year, it's supposed to be opened spring next year. Good time:)

Toward the Saint Margaret church

The view from Roszkowice hill toward the church of St. Margaret.

Concrete boxes

The view on the north-eastern part of Nowy Sacz from Roszkowice hill. The first row of high-rise blocks, it is so called 'Barskie II' housing estate. We show these buildings first time at this blog. The second row of high-rise blocks is 'Barskie' housing estate - a part of the town which we've already presented several times. In the photo there is also easily noticable church of Our Lady Immaculate. The building of the temple is dominating over this fragment of Nowy Sacz. From this perspective, it is incredible that in such concrete boxes live thousands of people.

Looking down: Thin and Fat towards the grandeur of Nature

The weather is still so awful that we do not take any new photos. We are reaching for our archive. The photo was taken last week.

Do you remeber the Thin and Fat* at our blog?:) If not, you can see them here. Aren't they a little bit smaller toward these hills and especially the Tatras in the background?:)

* - saying Thin and Fat we mean the former monastery of Franciscans and the Evangelical Church:)

Looking down: around the castle

In today's photo we present you the broad view on the right bank of Dunajec River. You can see the castle, the spire of the former monastery of Franciscans and the railway bridge. The huge hall opposite the castle is the ice-cream factory, it belongs to local businessman.

Looking down: Commieblocks

Today a little different "architecture". In the photo there are commieblocks on 'Barskie' housing estate. They were built in the 1980s. Some years ago the blocks were thermoinsulated and they gained new colourful facades. Before that, they were all grey and look very sadly.

These commieblocks are also fine places to take "aerial photos":) In the winter we tried them - here and here you can see the results.

Looking down: Basilica

Many bloggers stated that the modern church from our yesterday's photo does not fit to the surroundings, that it is all too huge and so on:) We can agree:)

Today, we are posting the view on the church of St. Margaret. When to compare this scene with yesterday's one, it seems to be obvious that in the past people built better:)
In the very left side of the photo you can also notice the St. Casimir's church.

Looking down: the modern church and the sports hall

In today's photo you can see, inter alia, the church of Our Lady Immaculate and the sports hall (on the left from the church). Behind them there is the 'Wojska Polskiego' ('The Polish Army') housing estate.

Mountain View

About two weeks ago, we wrote that it is possible to see The Tatras by a good clarity of the air. Today's cloudless weather proves it!:)

In the photo you can see The Tatras "over" Nowy Sacz's disctrict of Helena.
In the nearest future we'll post some photos from this place where we took today's one. (The new header is also the result of our today's walk:))

From on High...

In order to see such mountain view you don't have to go far away from the town. This photo was taken from a spot just about one hour walking from the place where we live in Nowy Sacz (and you should know that we reside rather in central part of the town:)).
In the photo there is a view from 'Przekaznik'. When you look at this photo, the town is on the right from it (the view on Nowy Sacz from this place you can see in our new header:))

The look from the birds' perspective

In today's photo there is the view on the central part of Nowy Sacz from the tenth floor of one of the high-rise blocks in 'Barskie' housing estate. You can see in it the contours of the Saint Margaret Church and the townhall.
At the bottom of the photo there are typical communist houses which were built in Poland in 1960s. and 1970s. It was very simple and rather ugly architecture. Fortunately, communism collapsed in our region of Central and Eastern Europe 20 years ago and such buildings are just an ephemeral relics of the past:)

The winter is back!

The winter is back again in Nowy Sacz. In today's photo you can see the view on the north-eastern outskirts of Nowy Sacz. The photo was taken from the tenth floor of one of the high-rise blocks in 'Barskie' housing estate.