Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Wrocław, Poland
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5 km
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 WrocławSight 1: Contemporary Museum
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.
Sight 2: 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.
Sight 3: Pod Murzynem
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.
Sight 4: Kamienica Pod Siedmioma Elektorami
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.
Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Siedmioma Elektorami we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0
Sight 5: Kamienica pod Błękitnym Słońcem
The Blue Sun Tenement House – a medieval tenement house on the Wrocław market square.
Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Błękitnym Słońcem we Wrocławiu (PL)
Sight 6: Kamienica Pod Złotym Słońcem
The Golden Sun House is a tenement house in the Market Square in Wrocław, built in the Baroque style.
Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Słońcem we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0
Sight 7: Kamienica Pod Złotym Orłem
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
Sight 8: Kamienica Dwór Polski
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.
Wikipedia: Kamienica przy Rynku 5 we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0
Sight 9: Muzeum Pana Tadeusza
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.
Sight 10: St. Elizabeth's Church
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.
Sight 11: 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
Sight 12: Kamienica Pod Gryfami
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
Sight 13: Kamienica Pod Złotym Pokojem
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.
Sight 14: Kamienica Pod Złotą Kotwicą
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
Sight 15: Kamienica pod Półksiężycem
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.
Wikipedia: Kamienica Pod Złotym Półksiężycem we Wrocławiu (PL), Url, Url 0
Sight 16: Kamienica Pod Złotą Palmą
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.
Sight 17: Krzesło
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.
Sight 18: 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.
Sight 19: The Botanical Garden
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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