Raclawice Panorama

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A small portion of the Raclawice Panorama.

The Raclawice Panorama is Wroclaw's most popular tourist attraction The panorama is 46 feet tall, 370 feet long, and is wrapped around the inside of a circular building to form a continuous circle.  It depicts the battle of Raclawice fought in April 1794 between Russian troops and a Polish peasant army defending Polish independence.  The Poles won the battle, but lost the war. Poland was partitioned and did not exist as a country from 1795 until World War I.  The Panorama was created in the late 1800's and displayed in Lvov until World War II when a bomb hit the building in which it was housed.  It was not displayed again until the the mid 1980's after 5 years of restoration work.

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A portion of the panorama.

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