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The architecture of Poland includes modern and historical monuments of architectural and historical importance. Several important works of Western architecture, such as the Wawel Hill, the Książ and Malbork castles, cityscapes of Toruń, Zamość, and Kraków are located in the country. Some of them are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. [1]
Gothic architecture is represented in the majestic churches but also at the burgher houses and fortifications.The most significant buildings are St. John's Cathedral (14th century), the temple is a typical example of the so-called Masovian gothic style, St. Mary's Church (1411), a town house of Burbach family (14th century), [1] Gunpowder Tower (after 1379) and the Royal Castle Curia Maior ...
Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland dominated between 1550 and 1650, when it was finally replaced with baroque. [1] The style includes various mannerist traditions, [ 1 ] which are closely related with ethnic and religious diversity of the country, as well as with its economic and political situation at that time.
During the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish-Lithuanian nobility built manor houses in the countryside.This was a preferred location for one's residence, as the nobility, following the sarmatism ideology, felt contempt for the cities, even though members of this elite also had residences in a major city or town (but these were large lateral apartments rather than townhouses).
The Zakopane style dominated architecture in the Podhale and other Goral Lands for many years. [3] Although the cutoff date for buildings designed in the Zakopane Style of Architecture is usually held to be 1914, many new pensions, villas and highlander homes are built according to the architectural model devised by Witkiewicz to the present day.
The wooden church style of the region originated in the late Medieval, the late sixteenth century, and began with Gothic ornament and polychrome detail, but because they were timber construction, the structure, general form, and feeling is entirely different from the gothic architecture or Polish Gothic (in stone or brick).
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It was developed in and ranging approximately from the 11th century until well into the half 13th century and it was succeeded by Polish Gothic architecture. Romanesque style in Poland was preceded by Pre-Romanesque architecture of the early Polish state. Its prime foundations were the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, the Gniezno Cathedral and the ...