Some of Europe's cultural features Case study on Krakow

1. IS THERE A EUROPEAN
ARCHITECTURAL
HERITAGE?
Do Europeans share common
features in their architecture?

2. Where is this city, this village ?
In Europe ?

4. the third largest
city in Finland

10. Crenellated towers

16. Are these
Christian cult
centers in
Europe ?

20. What makes Europe a coherent
heritage place?
• Cities and trade built
the European networks
and spread the cultural
trends
• Christianity was the
driving force of
morale and politics
until the 19th
c.
In both cases, urbanscapes
reflect this double heritage

21. European urban heritage relies on Christian features, a long
tradition of trade and old city centers, sometimes fortified.

22. e.g. Nuremberg’s city walls and defensive towers

23. Beaune Dijon

24. Toledo, SPAIN

25. The European
Enlightenment was not
limited to Western Europe
The European
Enlightenment was not
limited to Western Europe

27. Short
tour of
Krakow,
a typical
European
city:

29. WAWEL ROYAL CASTLE

30. Aerial picture of Krakow
(POLAND):
WAWEL ROYAL
CASTLE, VISTULA
RIVER AND CITY
OUTSKIRTS
What makes this
urbanscape a
typically European
one?

31. A typical European
urbanscape
A remnant of the royal
past
A city connected to
natural passageways
(here, the Vistula)
A modernized and
contemporanean
urban pattern
The city’s outskirts
Residential area
The Castle, a heritage
center and a tourist spot

32. Architectural innovations echoed in many European cities
Here, Gothic styles
paralleled the
development of
universities and
libraries
Here, Gothic styles
paralleled the
development of
universities and
libraries

33. Renaissance style

34. The Renaissance architectural features in Wawel Castle, Krakow

35. Baroque style

36. Krakow,
main street

37. Christian
heritage
Shops,
trading streets
Tourist
facilities
Architectural
diversity
and unity

38. Europe has developed distinct urban and
social features that makes it different from
the other civilizations
Europeans, even if often divided, have been
linked by trade, belief in Christian religion
and the tradition of written knowledge

39. Europe has developed distinct urban and
social features that makes it different from
the other civilizations
Europeans, even if often divided, have been
linked by trade, belief in Christian religion
and the tradition of written knowledge