Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Wrocław, Poland
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10.4 km
131 m
Experience Wrocław in Poland in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in WrocławSight 1: Friedrich Schiller
The Friedrich Schiller Monument in Wrocław is a monument located in Szczytnicki Park in Wrocław.
Sight 2: Japanese Garden
Wrocław's Japanese Garden was founded in the years 1909–1913 as an exotic garden for the Centennial Exhibition. It is located in the Śródmieście district of Wrocław, in the boundaries of Szczytnicki Park, near the Centennial Hall. It is home to almost 270 taxa of woody plants, as well as 78 species of Asian plants, of which 38 are endemic to Japan, such as Styrax japonicus. It is an important landmark of Wrocław.
Sight 3: Wrocławska Fontanna
The Wrocław Multimedia Fountain is a multimedia musical fountain and ornamental pond in Wrocław, of western Poland. The fountain runs only during the summer season, from the last weekend of April or the first weekend of May to late October.
Sight 4: Polująca Diana
The Statue of the Goddess Diana in Wrocław is a reconstructed statue of the goddess Diana in Wrocław in Szczytnicki Park.
Sight 5: Zwierzyniecki bridge
Zwierzyniecki Bridge is located in the eastern part of Wrocław, Poland. The bridge spans the Oder River and is in the immediate vicinity of Wrocław Zoo and the exhibition grounds about Centennial Hall. The bridge was built around 1655 and was originally wooden.
Sight 6: Jan Mikulicz Radecki
The Jan Mikulicz-Radecki Monument is a monument erected next to the entrance to the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery and General Surgery of the Medical University of Wrocław.
Wikipedia: Pomnik Jana Mikulicza-Radeckiego we Wrocławiu (PL), Url
Sight 7: Otwarte Muzeum Odry
The Open Museum of the Oder River is a museum organized by the Open Museum of Technology Foundation. It includes vessels anchoring on the Oder River next to the Szczytniki Lock, primarily the steam tugboat "Nadbór".
Sight 8: ZOO Wroclaw
The Wrocław Zoological Garden, known simply as the Wrocław Zoo, is a zoo on Wróblewski Street in Wrocław, Poland. It is the oldest zoo in Poland, having been first launched in 1865 as the Breslau Zoological Garden while the city was part of Prussia. During the World Wars it was first shut down, then reopened and finally destroyed. After World War II, it was rebuilt and ultimately opened in 1948 and now it is also the largest zoo in the country. The zoo covers 33 hectares near downtown Wrocław. It is home to about 10,500 animals representing about 1,132 species. In terms of the number of animal species it is the third largest zoological garden in the world.
Sight 9: Hydropolis
Hydropolis is the only science centre in Poland dedicated to water, located in the city of Wrocław.
Sight 10: Water Tower Na Grobli
The water tower at Na Grobli Street – a water tower with a total height of 40 m, located in Wrocław, which is one of the oldest technical infrastructure facilities of the city. The tower was built as a key element of John Moore's project to supply 200,000 inhabitants with water, corrected and dressed in a historicizing robe by the city's construction counsellor Johann Christian Zimmermann.
Sight 11: Kościół Świętego Łazarza
Church of St. Lazarus in Wrocław – a Gothic brick church built by the Order of the Knights and Hospitallers of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in the second half of the fourteenth century by the road leading from medieval Wrocław to the south-east – to Oława.
Sight 12: Kościół pw. Świętej Trójcy
The Church of the Holy Trinity of the Brothers Hospitallers in Wrocław – a historic Catholic church in Wrocław, located in Przedmieście Oławskie, at Gen. Romualda Traugutta Street, is a monastery church of the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers.
Sight 13: Kaplica Kościoła Ewangelicko-Metodystycznego
The Chapel of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Wrocław – a parish church of the parish of God's Peace belonging to the Evangelical Methodist Church in the Republic of Poland, located at 28a Worcella Street in Przedmieście Oławskie in Wrocław.
Wikipedia: Kaplica Kościoła Ewangelicko-Metodystycznego we Wrocławiu (PL), Url
Sight 14: Kościół pw. Świętego Maurycego
St. Maurice's Church at 36 Gen. Romualda Traugutta Street in Wrocław – originally a Gothic single-nave church with a fifteenth-century baptismal chapel and a tower rebuilt in the 18th century in the Baroque style according to the design of architect J. Peintner.
Sight 15: Bastion Sakwowy
The Sack Bastion – a fragment of the former fortifications of the city of Wrocław, in their south-eastern corner.
Sight 16: Amor na Pegazie
The Cupid on the Pegasus monument in Wrocław, Poland, is a monument located in Nicolaus Copernicus Park, within the Old Town Promenade at Teatralna Street. The sculptor was Theodor von Gosen.
Sight 17: Ogród Staromiejski
The Nicolaus Copernicus Park is located in the center of Wrocław, within the Old Town, in the area of Teatralna Street and Teatralny Square. Its current name has been in force since January 1, 1994. Previously, it was called: Zwingerpark, Międzymurzowy Park, Old Town Park, Hanka Sawicka Park. It has an area of 2.75 ha. It is managed by the Urban Greenery Authority.
Sight 18: Bolesław Chrobry
The Monument of Bolesław the Brave in Wrocław – an equestrian monument of Bolesław the Brave according to the design of Dorota Korzeniewska, Maciej Albrzykowski and Grażyna Jaskierska-Albrzykowska, erected in Wrocław on Świdnicka Street and unveiled on 15 September 2007.
Wikipedia: Pomnik Bolesława Chrobrego we Wrocławiu (PL), Url
Sight 19: Pogodynka
Pogoda – a meteorological column in Wrocław at Świdnicka Street, on its eastern side, at its intersection with the Old Town Promenade, near the building of the former Guardhouse; erected in the 80s of the nineteenth century. Its location at the intersection of the main shopping street and the Old Town park and the form of small architecture reflected the nineteenth-century spa compositions. The building underwent thorough conservation in the years 1984–1985.
Sight 20: Pomnik Pamięci Ofiar Nocy Kryształowej
The Monument to the Victims of Kristallnacht – erected in Wrocław at the intersection of Łąkowa and Druckiego-Lubeckiego Streets.
Sight 21: Bojownikom o wyzwolenie narodowe i społeczne
Commemorative stone in honour of the Fighters for National and Social Liberation – a granite erratic boulder located on Tadeusz Kościuszko Square in Wrocław, dedicated to the memory of the fighters for national and social liberation. It was unveiled on 24 March 1946, on the occasion of the First Congress of Participants in the Armed Struggle for Independence and Democracy, which took place as part of the Kościuszko Year, celebrated in 1946. There are opinions that it was a propaganda attempt to include the Recovered Territories in the tradition of the Polish military action.
Wikipedia: Kamień pamiątkowy ku czci Bojowników o Wyzwolenie Narodowe i Społeczne (PL)
Sight 22: Pałac Schaffgotschów
The Schaffgotsch Palace is a historic palace in Wrocław at 34 Kościuszki Street.
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