Goat Castle
I fell in love. This time with him. I didn't think it would happen to me again, and at first sight.
It was warm and sunny. I left my car far from the market square and decided to explore the main attractions on foot. I started at the Krakow Gate, which opens the way to the Old Town. The gate is located in a tower with a clock, on whose hands laundry was once hung, which is why the clock did not always show the exact time. The tower houses the city museum, and at the top there is a beautiful view.
A walk through the old town is breathtaking. The city is one of the few to have preserved its medieval street layout, and it is partly because of it that King Casimir the Great is remembered as the one who "found Poland made of wood and left it made of brick."
I drank my coffee at the tenement house at Rynek 2, which has a sgraffito showing the medallions of my famous ancestor Bernardus Lublinius, born around 1465, better known as Biernat of Lublin. For a long time, my compatriot was considered the author of the first book printed in Polish, which was "Raj duszny" published in 1513. In reality, however, an unknown author was faster with the probably boring "Historyja umęczenia Pana nasz Jezusa Chrystusa" from 1508.
On the other side of the market square, at Rynek 9, you can eat well in the atmospheric Jewish restaurant "Madragora" located in the Kamienica Pod Lwami, and right next door, at number 12, you can admire the most beautiful tenement house in Lublin, the Konopnica family, which hosted John III Sobieski, the Swedish King Charles XII and Tsar Peter the Great.
It is also worth seeing the Lublin Castle, originally built by Casimir the Great in the 14th century, on the foundations of which the current form was built by the Ruthenians in 1823 as a prison. In the castle, you must definitely enter the most valuable masterpiece in Lublin - the medieval chapel of the Holy Trinity, covered with Byzantine-Russian frescoes, which were ordered to be painted by Władysław Jagiełło in 1428. You must also conquer the castle tower - Lublin's monument of Romanesque art, which is one of the oldest buildings in the Lublin region, giving a beautiful view of the city.
I also recommend a visit to the Dominican Basilica in the Lublin Renaissance style and to the Archcathedral of St. John the Baptist, which is a pearl of the Baroque in the Lublin region, as well as a walk along Krakowskie Przedmieście, a representative promenade that runs from the Krakow Gate at Łokietek Square to the charming Grand Hotel at Litewski Square.
My reliable TripAdvisor advisor chose the restaurant for my meal. At the vegan Zielony Talerzyk I had the cold soup, spinach and beetroot ravioli and tapioca dessert.
I didn't have enough time to ride the trolleybus and visit the amusement park. I also regret that I didn't spend a single evening here, because the atmosphere of the pubs around the market is indecently inviting.
I fell in love with Kozi Grod. It will be my second lover. Right behind the Tri-City.
