{"id":262,"date":"2018-02-11T19:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/?p=262"},"modified":"2024-04-26T23:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:09:35","slug":"hlavne-namestie-from-kosice-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/2018\/european-squares\/hlavne-namestie-from-kosice-slovakia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hlavn\u00e9 n\u00e1mestie from Ko\u0161ice, Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-262 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/2018\/european-squares\/hlavne-namestie-from-kosice-slovakia\/attachment\/img_6634\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_6634-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/2018\/european-squares\/hlavne-namestie-from-kosice-slovakia\/attachment\/img_6598\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_6598-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/2018\/european-squares\/hlavne-namestie-from-kosice-slovakia\/attachment\/img_6691\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_6691-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/2018\/european-squares\/hlavne-namestie-from-kosice-slovakia\/attachment\/img_6708\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_6708-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>Hlavn\u00e9 n\u00e1mestie <\/em>means Great Square in Slovak, but the early history of this city and its central square is tied to the German colonists who arrived here in the mid-13<sup>th<\/sup> century, at the invitation of King B\u00e9la IV of Hungary. The city of Ko\u0161ice (Kaschau in German, Kassa in Hungarian, and Ca\u0219ovia in the old Romanian chronicles), existed at the crossroads of great trade routes linking the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea; Poland with Transylvania; the east of Europe with the south of Europe. Its urban space is rigorously structured. Three parallel roads run from north to south, with the middle road becoming progressively wider until it meets the main east-west artery, forming a special, lens-shaped square. The lens shape is due to the construction of the square in a region that formerly functioned as a trade fair. The trade fair took place in a widened section of the road, halfway between a castle and an abbey, before any other buildings were constructed. The shape also comes from the unification, through a typical process of a <em>synoecism<\/em>, of two distinct pre-13<sup>th<\/sup> century settlements, whose borders were those of the present-day square. At its centre, where these two axes intersect, the German colonists erected a parish church. In the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century this church was replaced by the Gothic Cathedral of Saint Elisabeth, the largest Cathedral in Slovakia to this day. The tower of Saint Urban, containing a seven tonne bell, and the Chapel of Saint Michael, both Gothic and built in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century, flank the Cathedral, creating a unique and unitary whole. The theatre, a Neo-Baroque jewel, was finalised in 1899. Gothic houses, Renaissance and Baroque palaces, and Art Nouveau buildings define the perimeter of the square. The contours of the old city walls are clearly visible along the circular paths of the adjacent streets. The lens-shaped square of Ko\u0161ice is the largest and most coherent urban ensemble of its kind, typical of eastern Slovakia.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1417\" height=\"1063\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DJI_0042-1.jpg?fit=660%2C495\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DJI_0042-1.jpg 1417w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DJI_0042-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DJI_0042-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DJI_0042-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1417px) 100vw, 1417px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hlavn\u00e9 n\u00e1mestie means Great Square in Slovak, but the early history of this city and its central square is tied to the German colonists who arrived here in the mid-13th century, at the invitation of King B\u00e9la IV of Hungary. The city of Ko\u0161ice (Kaschau in German, Kassa in Hungarian, and Ca\u0219ovia in the old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/2018\/european-squares\/hlavne-namestie-from-kosice-slovakia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hlavn\u00e9 n\u00e1mestie from Ko\u0161ice, Slovakia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,42,149,55,145,151,38,54,146,35,53],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-squares","tag-13th-century","tag-arhitectura-baroca","tag-az","tag-casovia","tag-en","tag-es","tag-holy-roman-empire","tag-international-gotic","tag-ro","tag-sec-xiii","tag-slovakia","post_format-post-format-image"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"pl","enabled_languages":["en","tr","ro","es","it","gr","az","pl","ge","pt"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"tr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ro":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"gr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"az":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"pl":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ge":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"pt":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intothesquare.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}