Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Wrocław, Poland

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Number of sights 49 sights
Distance 6.6 km
Ascend 91 m
Descend 98 m

Experience Wrocław in Poland in a whole new way with our free 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 Wrocław

Sight 1: Panorama of the Battle of Racławice

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Panorama of the Battle of Racławice

The Racławice Panorama is a monumental cycloramic painting depicting the Battle of Racławice, during the Kościuszko Uprising. It is located in Wrocław, Poland. The painting is one of only a few preserved relics of a genre of 19th-century mass culture, and the oldest in Poland. The panorama stands in a circular fashion and, with the viewer in the center, presents different scenes at various viewing angles. A special kind of perspective used in the painting and additional effects create a feeling of reality.

Wikipedia: Racławice Panorama (EN), Website

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Park Juliusza Słowackiego

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Juliusz Słowacki Park in Wrocław is a park located in the area of the Old Town – near the so-called New Town. It is also partly located in the place of a buried section of the city moat, a fragment of which for some time was the estuary section of the Oława River. The park covers an area of 5.74 ha.

Wikipedia: Park Juliusza Słowackiego we Wrocławiu (PL)

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Muzeum Poczty i Telekomunikacji

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Muzeum Poczty i Telekomunikacji

Museum of Post and Telecommunications in Wrocław – the only museum in Poland, next to the Polish Post Museum in Gdańsk, gathering exhibits documenting the history of post, telecommunications and telegraphy in Poland. It is located in Wrocław, in the historic building of the Main Post Office at 1 Zygmunta Krasińskiego Street. Since 1988, it has been a member of ICOM and IATM.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Poczty i Telekomunikacji we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

221 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Museum of Architecture

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The Museum of Architecture is in Wrocław, Poland. The museum was founded in 1965 and located in the historic Old Town.

Wikipedia: Museum of Architecture, Wrocław (EN), Website

155 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: chaczkar

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Khachkar in Wrocław – an Armenian stone stele, unveiled on September 21, 2012, placed on the square at Janickiego Street in Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Chaczkar we Wrocławiu (PL)

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Kościół Świętego Wojciecha

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St. Adalbert's Church, German: Adalbertkirche, in Wrocław at Dominikański Square in the Old Town – one of the largest and oldest Gothic churches in the city. Double Sanctuary: Our Lady of Podkamień and Blessed Czesław.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Wojciecha we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Kapliczka Dompniga

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Dompnig Chapel – a Gothic, stone pillar chapel, located in the Polish Catholic cathedral in Wrocław. It is considered to be the oldest monument of bourgeois monumental sculpture in Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Kapliczka Dompniga (PL)

63 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Muzeum Farmacji Uniwersytetu Medycznego

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The Museum of Pharmacy of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Medical University of Wrocław – a pharmacy museum established in November 2011, located in Wrocław at the Chicken Market in the thirteenth-century Tenement House Under the Golden Eagle in Wrocław, now known as the House of the Silesian Pharmacist.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Farmacji Uniwersytetu Medycznego we Wrocławiu (PL)

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Katedra Świętej Marii Magdaleny

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Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene in Wrocław, Poland, is a gothic church located between Szewska and Laciarska street close to the central market square, established in the 13th century. It serves as a cathedral of the Polish Catholic Church led by Piotr Mikołajczak. Along with the Old Town of Wrocław, it is listed as a Historic Monument of Poland.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene, Wrocław (EN)

147 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Kameleon

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Kameleon Department Store, formerly: Rudolf Petersdorff Department Store – a historic department store in Wrocław, located at 6/7 Szewska Street.

Wikipedia: Dom Handlowy Kameleon (PL)

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Kamienica Pod Złotą Koroną

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Tenement House Under the Golden Crown – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square, on its eastern frontage, on the so-called side of Zielona Trzcina or Zielona Rura; It was one of the earliest works of the Silesian Renaissance.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotą Koroną we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

120 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Kamienica Pod Złotą Gwiazdą

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The Golden Star Tenement House – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square, on its eastern frontage, on the so-called side of the Green Reed or Green Pipe.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotą Gwiazdą we Wrocławiu (PL)

70 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Kamienica Pod Złotą Kotwicą

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The tenement house at Rynek 38, also known as the Tenement House Under the Golden Anchor – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square, on its eastern frontage, on the so-called side of the Green Reed or Green Pipe. On the Wrocław Market Square, two tenement houses have the same name: the second one is located at the plot at Rynek 52.

Wikipedia: Kamienica przy Rynku 38 we Wrocławiu (PL)

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: kamienica Pod Złotym Pelikanem

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The Golden Pelikan Tenement House – a tenement house located on the Wrocław Market Square at number 43, on its northern frontage, called the Sweets Market.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Pelikanem we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: kamienica Pod Złotą Trójcą

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The Golden Trinity House or the Holy Trinity House, also known as the Double Golden Eagle Pharmacy – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square, on its northern frontage called the Sweets Market.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotą Trójcą Świętą we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Kamienica Pod Złotym Jeleniem

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The Golden Deer Tenement House – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square, on its northern frontage, known as the Sweets Market.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Jeleniem we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

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Sight 17: Kamienica Szwedzka Sień

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The Swedish Hallway House – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square, on the northern frontage of the market square, known as the Sweets Market.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Szwedzka Sień we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Kamienica pod Półksiężycem

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Kamienica pod Półksiężycem

The Tenement House Under the Golden Crescent or Under the Half Moon – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square, on its northern frontage, known as the Sweets Market.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Półksiężycem we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 19: Kamienica Pod Złotą Palmą

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The House Under the Golden Palm, Lower Silesian Public Library – a tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, on the northern frontage of the market square, known as the Sweets Market.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotą Palmą we Wrocławiu (PL)

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Kamienica Pod Złotym Pokojem

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The Golden Room Tenement House – a tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, on the northern frontage of the market square, known as the Sweets Market.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Pokojem we Wrocławiu (PL)

67 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Kamienica Pod Gryfami

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The House Under the Griffins is a tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, built around 1300.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Gryfami we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

125 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Fontanna Zdrój

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The "Zdrój" Fountain is a fountain located on the Wrocław Market Square, on its western side, in front of the New Town Hall. It consists of a rectangular pool enclosed with granite cubes and granite boulders erected in the middle of the basin and vertically embedded glass slabs on which water flows. The design by Alojzy Gryt from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław has from the beginning aroused protests as it did not fit into the historic buildings of the Market Square. However, the then mayor of Wrocław, Bogdan Zdrojewski, led to the construction and unveiling of the fountain on September 17, 1996.

Wikipedia: Fontanna Zdrój we Wrocławiu (PL), Url 0

123 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: Fontanna Niedźwiadek

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Fontanna NiedźwiadekKlearchos Kapoutsis from Santorini, Greece / CC BY 2.0

The Bear Cub Fountain is a reconstruction of a pre-war fountain, located by the southern wall of the Old Town Hall in Wrocław, Poland.

Wikipedia: Bear Cub Fountain, Wrocław (EN), Url

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Sight 24: Muzeum Sztuki Mieszczańskiej

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The Old Town Hall in Wrocław – a late Gothic building on the Wrocław Market Square, one of the best-preserved historical town halls in Poland, and at the same time one of the main architectural monuments of Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Sztuki Mieszczańskiej we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

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Sight 25: Aleksander hrabia Fredro

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The Aleksander Fredro Monument is a bronze statue located in Wrocław, Poland dedicated to Polish Romantic-era poet, playwright and author Aleksander Fredro. Originally built in Lwów in 1897 according to Leonard Marconi's design, the monument was transferred to Wrocław in 1956.

Wikipedia: Aleksander Fredro Monument (EN), Url, Url 0

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 26: Kamienica Pod Złotym Pucharem

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The Golden Cup Tenement House – a tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, on the southern frontage of the Market Square, the so-called side of the Golden Cup.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Pucharem we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 27: Kamienica Pod Zieloną Dynią

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The Green Pumpkin Tenement House – a medieval tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, on the southern frontage of the Market Square, the so-called side of the Golden Cup.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Zieloną Dynią we Wrocławiu (PL)

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Sight 28: Kamienica Pod Złotym Dzbanem

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The Golden Pitcher House – a medieval tenement house in the southern frontage of the market square in Wrocław, number 22, opposite the entrance to the Świdnicka Cellar and next to the Green Pumpkin House.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Dzbanem we Wrocławiu (PL)

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Sight 29: Kamienica Dom Bankierów

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Tenement House at 21 Market Square – a tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, on the southern frontage of the Market Square, the so-called side of the Golden Cup, also known as the Bankers' House, and one of the narrowest tenement houses in Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Kamienica przy Rynku 21 we Wrocławiu (PL), Url

49 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 30: Kamienica Pod Starą Szubienicą

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The Old Gallows Tenement House – a tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, on the southern frontage of the Market Square, the so-called side of the Golden Cup.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Starą Szubienicą we Wrocławiu (PL)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 31: Iglica

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The Spire on Plac Solny in Wrocław, also known as the Small Spire – a monument located in Wrocław on Plac Solny.

Wikipedia: Iglica na Placu Solnym we Wrocławiu (PL), Url

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 32: Kamienica pod Błękitnym Słońcem

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Tenement House Under the Blue Sun – a medieval tenement house on the Wrocław market square.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Błękitnym Słońcem we Wrocławiu (PL)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 33: Kamienica Pod Złotym Słońcem

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Kamienica Pod Złotym Słońcem Siloy / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Golden Sun Tenement House ) is a tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, built in the Baroque style.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Słońcem we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

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Sight 34: Kamienica Pod Złotym Orłem

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The Golden Eagle Tenement House – a tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław, rebuilt in the Baroque style.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Orłem we Wrocławiu (Rynek) (PL), Url, Url 0

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Sight 35: Kamienica Dwór Polski

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Tenement House at Rynek 5 – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square in the Gothic-Renaissance style with late Baroque elements, known as the "Polish Manor" tenement house after the restaurant located there.

Wikipedia: Kamienica przy Rynku 5 we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

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Sight 36: Muzeum Pana Tadeusza

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Muzeum Pana Tadeusza Siloy / CC BY-SA 3.0

Pan Tadeusz Museum – part of the Ossolineum, presenting the Museum's collections against a rich historical and literary background. It has been operating since May 2016 in the tenement house Under the Golden Sun in Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Muzeum „Pana Tadeusza” (PL), Website

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 37: Kamienica Pod Siedmioma Elektorami

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The Tenement House Under the Seven Electors – a Renaissance tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław from the second half of the thirteenth century. It is characterized by rich decorations. The Habsburg eagle was placed in the tympanum. In the seventeenth century, the tenement house was called Köbersche Haus or Stellenfeldsche Haus.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Siedmioma Elektorami we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

108 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 38: Pod Murzynem

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The Three Negro Tenement House – a historic tenement house of medieval origin, located at the intersection of 32 Kiełbaśnicza Street and 1 Ruska Street in Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Trzema Murzynami we Wrocławiu (PL)

191 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 39: Pomnik Bohaterów Getta Warszawskiego

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The Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto is a plaque commemorating the insurgents of the Warsaw Ghetto located on the Ghetto Heroes Square in Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Bohaterów Getta Warszawskiego we Wrocławiu (PL), Url

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 40: Divine Providence Church

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Divine Providence Church

The Church of Divine Providence in Wrocław, formerly known as the court church, is an Evangelical church belonging to the parish of the Evangelical-Augsburg Divine Providence in Wrocław. It is located at Kazimierza Wielkiego Street, within the District of Four Denominations.

Wikipedia: Kościół Opatrzności Bożej we Wrocławiu (PL), Url 0

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 41: Muzeum Historyczne i Muzeum Sztuki Medalierskiej

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The Historical Museum is one of the seven branches of the City Museum of Wrocław. Together with the Museum of Medallic Art, it is located in the former Royal Palace (Spätgenów) in Wrocław at Kazimierza Wielkiego Street.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Historyczne we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

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Sight 42: Pałac Królewski

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The Royal Palace is a palace in Wrocław, Poland. Originally a palace of the Prussian monarchy, it now houses the city museum.

Wikipedia: Royal Palace, Wrocław (EN)

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 43: Kościół Jezusa Chrystusa Świętych w Dniach Ostatnich

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The Community of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wrocław is a Mormon community operating in Wrocław, Poland, belonging to the Katowice district of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Wikipedia: Gmina Kościoła Jezusa Chrystusa Świętych w Dniach Ostatnich we Wrocławiu (PL), Website, Facebook

266 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 44: The National Forum of Music

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The National Forum of Music Łukasz Rajchert / CC BY-SA 4.0

The National Forum of Music or NFM is a music venue located in Wrocław, Poland. It was completed in 2015 and houses a large concert hall with 1800 seats and three chamber halls and is home to many major ensembles and festivals in Wrocław. The building was designed by APA Kuryłowicz & Associates. It is one of the largest and most modern music venues in Poland.

Wikipedia: National Forum of Music (EN), Website, Url 0

133 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 45: Nowa Giełda

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Nowa Giełda

Nowa Giełda – a nineteenth-century building of the Wrocław Stock Exchange, until 2018 the seat of the Gwardia Sports Club.

Wikipedia: Nowa Giełda we Wrocławiu (PL)

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 46: Mała Synagoga

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Mała Synagoga

The Small Synagogue in Wrocław, shul – a synagogue located in Wrocław, at 9 Pawła Włodkowica Street, right next to the White Stork Synagogue. It is currently one of the two active synagogues in this city.

Wikipedia: Mała Synagoga we Wrocławiu (PL)

298 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 47: Kościół Świętego Antoniego z Padwy

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Church of St. Anthony of Padua – a Roman Catholic temple at 30 St. Anthony Street in Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Antoniego z Padwy we Wrocławiu (PL), Url

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 48: Fontanna Alegoria Walki i Zwycięstwa

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Fontanna Alegoria Walki i Zwycięstwa

The Allegory of Struggle and Victory Fountain – a fountain and sculptures (monuments) of Struggle and Victory located in Wrocław at John Paul II Square in the Old Town Promenade running along the city moat.

Wikipedia: Fontanna Alegoria Walki i Zwycięstwa (PL)

719 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 49: Games & Computers of the Past Era

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The Museum of Games and Computers of the Past Era – a museum in Wrocław devoted to the history of games, consoles and computers, as well as retroinformatics. It was opened on September 2, 2017 in the building of the Świebodzki Railway Station. Created by members of the RetroGralnia initiative with the participation of crowdfunding funds. The Museum is a continuation of the previous activities of the initiative existing since 2011, which included, among others, the organization of numerous exhibitions, including in 2017 under the brand of the Museum to be established.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery (PL), Website

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