IN MY PREVIOUS POSTS, I was describing the trip to the seaside through Mazovia region, KURPIE (small district),
however I probably have forgotten to mention that the big part of the journey was via WARMIAN-MAZURIAN VOIVODESHIP, cause informally we say "Mazury", that is Mazurian Lake District.
This voivodeship borders with RUSSIA and LITHUANIA.
Today I present the rest of the pictures from NIDZICA, from te old castle, where Teutonic Knights lived (KRZYŻACY in Polish);
this region was generally called Prussia (PRUSY) in older times.
I copied the following sentence below:
1410 The Teutonic Order defeated by combined Catholic Christian Lithuanian-Polish forces at Tannenberg/Grunwald. Although the Teutonic Order continued to govern Prussia, this was the death-knell of the end of the Prussian Crusade.cause it is the most famous ancient battle between Polish-Lithuanian forces and the knights.
Grunwald, a place where it was happening is on on the way from Warsaw to the seaside, if anyone wants to know.
There are some other castles from those times - it is on the map, on one of the pictures from today: a castle in Kętrzyn, Olsztyn, Lidzbark Warmiński, but MALBORK is the most famous.
I was there some time ago, but I am planning to visit it again.
Maybe next summer.
So enjoy the castle in NIDZICA, by the way there is a hotel "U Komtura" if maybe someone would wish to sleep in the old castle.
http://www.swabia-teutonic.org/historyofteutonicknights.htm
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Województwo_warmińsko-mazurskie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podlesie,_Warmian-Masurian_Voivodeship
Dziś uzupełnienie podróży nad morze przez Mazury, Mazowsze, Kurpie.Oczywiście należy wspomnieć, że jest to województwo Warmińsko-Mazurskie, które graniczy Z Rosją (Obwodem Kalinigradzkim) oraz z Litwą.
Co jeszcze chcę dodać, otóż na zdjęciach z dziś jest reszta z Nidzicy,a na jednym mapa z pozostałymi zamkami Krzyżaków, czyli Olsztyn, Kętrzyn, parę innych, no i, oczywiście Malbork.Malbork planuję na następne wakacje.
Teraz, miłego oglądania,
a jak ktoś chce jechać do Nidzicy może przespać się "U Komtura", czyli w hotelu na zamku, jest tam też restauracja.
