{"id":409,"date":"2018-03-13T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m40.hekko24.pl\/projekty\/visitpoznan\/?page_id=409"},"modified":"2018-06-14T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T11:38:12","slug":"wzgorze-sw-wojciecha-i-cytadela","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/poznan\/poznan-attractions\/saint-wojciech\/","title":{"rendered":"SAINT WOJCIECH&#8217;S HILL AND CYTADELA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-758270 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-443836 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-532734 kc_text_block mytextstyle\"><\/p>\n<p>\nLocated in the virtual centre of the city, scarcely a&nbsp;few minutes&#8217; walk from the Old Market, you will find the large green areas of <strong>St Wojciech&#8217;s Hill and Cytadela<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the oldest churches in the city, correspondingly dedicated to St Wojciech, is located on the hill. The church is renowned for its secession-style polychrome and stained glasswork designed by Wyspia\u0144ski and Mehofer. The church crypt is often called the Pozna\u0144 bed rock, because so many distinguished Wielkopolska residents have been buried there: among them J\u00f3zef Wybicki, the author of the Polish anthem, Heliodor \u015awi\u0119cicki, the founder of Poznan university, and Feliks Nowowiejski, who wrote the lyrics to \u201cRota\u201d, a patriotic poem . In the church on the opposite side, a&nbsp;certain Skrzetuski is buried, considered by many to be only a&nbsp;character of fiction. Skrzetuski is a figure known from the stories of Henryk Sienkiewicz, who in fact lived in the times described in &#8220;Ogniem i&nbsp;mieczem\" (By Fire and Sword), though he was not such a&nbsp;monumental character, and his first name was Miko\u0142aj (whereas Sienkiewicz&#8217;s hero was christened Jan). On the side of the hill is the <strong>Cemetery of Worthy Wielkopolans<\/strong>. Distinguished residents of the region lie here, such as Cyryl Ratajski, Stanis\u0142aw Miko\u0142ajczyk, Wojciech Szcz\u0119sny-Kaczmarek and the Cegielski family.<\/p>\n<p>Walking from the northern slope of the hill, within several minutes you will reach the Cytadela \u2013 the largest \u2013 almost 100 hectares \u2013 park in Pozna\u0144. The name of the park is explained by its history. The Cytadela Park was created from the rubble of the former XIX century Prussian fortress. Walking along the paths, it is easy see the evidence of former events \u2013 moat, walls and bastions, shelters and ammunition stores&#8230; And among them, a&nbsp;memento already of the XX and XXI centuries: an armaments museum, one of the three Peace Clocks in the world, a&nbsp;military and civilian cemetery complex, a&nbsp;collection of sculptures and also artistic works, including the famous <strong>&#8220;Unidentified &#8211; Nierozpoznanych\" of Magdalena Abakanowicz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Cytadela, you could not possibly forget the ring of XIX century forts surrounding the former Prussian Pozna\u0144. Located at a&nbsp;distance of 5-7 km from the centre, they have with time been absorbed by the city. Some of them open to visitors in the summer, during open air events, and <strong>Fort VII<\/strong>, which during World War II functioned as a&nbsp;concentration camp is open to tourists every day.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":242,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/mainetemplate.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-409","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409\/revisions\/1558"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/visitpoznan.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}