folk architecture Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/folk-architecture/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:30:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png folk architecture Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/folk-architecture/ 32 32 The Wooden Greek Catholic Churches of the Galician Lemko Region https://forgottengalicia.com/the-wooden-greek-catholic-churches-of-the-galician-lemko-region/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-wooden-greek-catholic-churches-of-the-galician-lemko-region/#comments Sat, 18 Jan 2020 14:12:00 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=7641 The Lemkos and Their Fate The Lemkos are an ethnic group who historically inhabited the mountain valleys and foothills of the Carpathians in a region (called Lemkovyna or Lemkivshchyna) that today stretches along the border between Poland and Slovakia covering some western territories in Ukraine. The area that today belongs […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-wooden-greek-catholic-churches-of-the-galician-lemko-region/feed/ 7 Traces of Zakopane Style Architecture in Lviv https://forgottengalicia.com/traces-of-zakopane-style-architecture-in-lviv/ https://forgottengalicia.com/traces-of-zakopane-style-architecture-in-lviv/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:26:45 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4641 At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Art Nouveau spread across Europe and the United States. In the Austrian Empire the new art movement was called the Secession Style. The transition from historicism to modernism—which took place during this period as part of the struggle against academic art—chronologically […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/traces-of-zakopane-style-architecture-in-lviv/feed/ 4 A Protection Symbol for the Home: The Six-Petal Rosette оn the Crossbeams of Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/ https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:16:05 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006 The Six-Petal Rosette The six-petal rosette (also known as a hexafoil), the flower-like symbol created by overlapping seven circles, as well as the expanded variants with 7 interlocking rosettes and 19 interlocking rosettes (the latter is called the “Flower of Life” in the New Age movement), is an ancient symbol […]

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