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Wrocław Dwarves or Wrocław Gnomes (Polish: Wrocławskie krasnale) are small figurines (20–30 cm) that have appeared in the streets of Wrocław, Poland since 2005. The dwarves are a major tourist attraction for the city, which is the third largest in Poland . [ 1 ]
The word krasnal ogrodowy is also used to describe garden gnomes. In the city of Wrocław, a bronze statue honoring the Orange Alternative, an anti-communist social movement whose mascot is a krasnoludek dwarf, has inspired hundreds of other dwarf statues around the city that have since become a popular tourist attraction, the Wrocław Dwarfs.
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The beginnings of the Orange Alternative are in a student movement called the Movement for New Culture created in 1980 at the University of Wrocław. It is in that year that Waldemar "Major" Fydrych, one of the movement's founders, proclaims the Socialist Surrealism Manifesto, [5] which becomes the ideological backbone behind a gazette known as "The Orange Alternative".
A British woman took to Facebook to try and solve a mystery that developed overnight outside her home -- who left 100 garden gnomes (107 to be exact) on her front walk and why? HuffPost UK reports ...
Articles relating to gnomes and their depictions. They are mythological creatures and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and widely adopted by authors including those of modern fantasy literature.
Korzeniacy, czyli Jesień wsamrazków (The Root People, or Autumn of the Little Gnomes) is a fantasy novel (modern fairy tale) for young readers by Janina Wieczerska , published in 1989. It has an eco-friendly theme and tells the adventures of gnomes in contemporary times. The novel was published by the Czytelnik Publishing House. The cover ...
The natural world contains many strange things, including elemental beings corresponding to the four classical elements: undines , sylphs , gnomes and salamanders . He dismisses the conventional Christian view that elemental beings are devils, instead arguing that they are significant parts of God's creation, and studies them like he studied ...