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Teatr Wielki

THE OPERA - TEATR WIELKI

The Teatr Wielki (Grand Theater) is Poznań's Opera House. The building, part of complex of parks and monumental structure built on an area that became available with the demolition of 19th fortification, was built in 1910 by the city's German authorities to a design of Munich architect Max Littmann It is one of ten Opera Houses currently operating in Poland. The buildings neoclassical facade is crowned with Pegasus, the winged horse, which has become the symbol of the Poznań Opera.

 

Facade of the Opera




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