Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Wrocław, Poland

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 5 km
Ascend 77 m
Descend 75 m

Explore Wrocław in Poland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Wrocław

Sight 1: Contemporary Museum

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Contemporary Museum Małgorzata Kujda / CC BY-SA 4.0

Wrocław Contemporary Museum, is a museum located in Wrocław, Poland. It was established in 2011. It develops relations with contemporary artists by exhibitions and educational events, while expanding its art collection.

Wikipedia: Wrocław Contemporary Museum (EN), Url, Url 0

1349 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 2: 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 course of the Old Town Promenade running along the city moat.

Wikipedia: Fontanna Alegoria Walki i Zwycięstwa (PL)

549 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Pod Murzynem

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The Three Negroes 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)

108 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Kamienica Pod Siedmioma Elektorami

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The Seven Electors House – a Renaissance tenement house on the Market Square in Wrocław from the second half of the 13th century. It is characterized by rich decorations. A Habsburg eagle was placed in the tympanum. In the 17th century, the tenement house was called Köbersche Haus or Stellenfeldsche Haus.

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114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Kamienica pod Błękitnym Słońcem

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

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Błękitnym Słońcem we Wrocławiu (PL)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Kamienica Pod Złotym Słońcem

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Kamienica Pod Złotym Słońcem Siloy / CC BY-SA 3.0

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

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6 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: 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.

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Sight 8: Kamienica Dwór Polski

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Kamienica Rynek 5-a tenement house on the Wrocław market in the Gothic-Renaissance style with late Baroque elements, known as the "Polish Dwór" tenement house from the restaurant located in it.

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Sight 9: Muzeum Pana Tadeusza

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Muzeum Pana Tadeusza Siloy / CC BY-SA 3.0

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

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

181 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: St. Elizabeth's Church

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St. Elizabeth's Church of the Catholic Third Order of Saint Francis is a Gothic church in Wrocław, Poland. It is one of the most iconic structures of the city's Old Town panorama.

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52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Dom altarystów Jaś

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Dom altarystów Jaś

Hansel and Gretel – two medieval tenement houses at the north-western corner of the Wrocław market square, connected with each other by an arcade. Built most probably in the fifteenth century, they were then part of a larger group of houses of altarists of the parish church of St. Elizabeth. Between the tenement houses, under the arcade, there was an entrance to the cemetery, liquidated in the eighteenth century, which is reminded by the inscription on the cartouche "Mors Ianua Vitae" – "Death is the gate of life". There used to be a gate in this gate.

Wikipedia: Kamienice Jaś i Małgosia we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0

39 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: 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.

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67 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: 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)

44 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Kamienica Pod Złotą Kotwicą

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The Golden Anchor Tenement House – a tenement house on the Wrocław market square, on its northern frontage, known as the Sweets Market. It is the oldest tenement house in the northern frontage

Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotą Kotwicą we Wrocławiu (PL)

25 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: Kamienica pod Półksiężycem

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

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41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: Kamienica Pod Złotą Palmą

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The Golden Palm House, 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)

373 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Krzesło

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Chair - an outdoor sculpture by Tadeusz Kantor standing at the intersection of Rzeznicza Street with Nowy Świat street in Wrocław. The sculpture was one of the projects intended for urban space prepared on the occasion of the Wrocław '70 art symposium. Another sculpture, implemented in Wrocław according to projects from the symposium, is the arena made according to Jerzy Beresia's design.

Wikipedia: Krzesło (rzeźba) (PL)

496 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 18: Jaz Wrocław II

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Jaz Wrocław II

The weir of the Wrocław Hydroelectric Power Plant II is a weir located in Wrocław on the Oder River, more precisely on its branch, the so-called Northern Oder, as part of the Wrocław Water Junction.

Wikipedia: Jaz Elektrowni Wodnej Wrocław II (PL), Url

1465 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 19: The Botanical Garden

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The Botanical Garden of the University of Wrocław is a botanical garden in Wrocław founded in 1811 in the area of Ostrów Tumski. The garden was established for medical students at the local university. During the Napoleonic Wars, the garden was damaged after the city fortifications were destroyed. Part of the garden featured a branch off the Odra river and was filled in during the conflict, but has since been restored as a large lily pond. It is the second oldest garden of this type in Poland, after the garden in Kraków. In 1974 it was listed as a protected monument in Lower Silesia, since 1994 it was included in the protected historical city center.

Wikipedia: University of Wrocław Botanical Garden (EN), Website, Url

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