A note on the publication
Vistula Notes is a small editorial project about cities and everyday observation. Edition 01 brings together four city introductions, six essays, three thematic collections and a field guide. The writing is intended to encourage attentive exploration, not to provide current opening hours, commercial recommendations or guaranteed routes.
Check up-to-date local information before making practical plans. Images illustrate a sense of place and may show a different season, time or viewpoint from the essay alongside them. They do not establish firsthand travel experience on the part of the publication.
Photography, with thanks
The photographs on this site are used under the Unsplash License. Individual works and their creators are linked below. Crops and image sizes have been adapted for the layouts.
- Joshua Kettle ↗Warsaw skyline across the Vistula at dusk
- Hendrik Alting ↗Gabled buildings along the Motława in Gdańsk
- Julia Boiun ↗A sailboat and the Gdańsk waterfront
- Maksym Harbar ↗Brick waterfront architecture in Gdańsk
- Piotr Rutkowski ↗St. Mary’s Basilica and the market square in Kraków
- Tadeusz Zachwieja ↗Grunwaldzki Bridge in Wrocław at night
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A map of the journal
Twenty pages, several ways in. Choose a city, follow a collection or begin with a story.