Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #10 in Wrocław, Poland
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13.1 km
141 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: Kościół Pamięci Króla Gustawa Adolfa
The Church of the Memory of King Gustav Adolf in Wrocław – a Lutheran temple built in the Sępolno housing estate in the years 1932-1933. Currently, it belongs to the parish of St. Christopher.
Wikipedia: Kościół Gustawa Adolfa we Wrocławiu (PL), Website
Sight 2: Park Hotel
Park Hotel in Wrocław - a modernist hotel building at the Dąbie estate at ul. Copernicus 5, built as a house of the experimental housing estate WUWA according to the design of Hans Scharune as a residential house for lonely and childless marriages.
Sight 3: 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 4: 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 5: Centennial Hall
The Centennial Hall, formerly named Hala Ludowa, is a historic building in Wrocław, Poland. It was constructed according to the plans of architect Max Berg in 1911–1913. Max Berg designed Centennial Hall to serve as a multifunctional structure to host "exhibitions, concerts, theatrical and opera performances, and sporting events". The hall continues to be used for sporting events, business summits, and concerts.
Wikipedia: Centennial Hall (Wrocław) (EN), Url, Website, Website 2, Heritagewebsite
Sight 6: Pavillion of Four Domes
The Four Domes Pavilion – a pavilion built at the beginning of the twentieth century on the exhibition grounds in the eastern part of Wrocław.
Sight 7: Spire
Iglica is a needle-like monument in Wrocław, Poland. It was built in 1948 and was 106 metres tall. Today, after renovation, the top ten metres have been removed and it is now 90 metres tall.
Sight 8: Polująca Diana
The Statue of the Goddess Diana in Wrocław is a reconstructed statue of the goddess Diana in Wrocław in Szczytnicki Park.
Sight 9: 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 10: 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 11: 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 12: Hydropolis
Hydropolis is the only science centre in Poland dedicated to water, located in the city of Wrocław.
Sight 13: 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 14: kaplica ewangelicko-luterańska zakładu „Bethanien”
Church of Christ in Wrocław – currently a ruined Evangelical-Lutheran (Old Lutheran) church.
Sight 15: Ethnographical Museum
The Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław – a museum of folk art of Lower Silesia, operating since 1954.
Sight 16: II Zbór Kościoła Chrześcijan Baptystów we Wrocławiu
The Second Baptist Church in Wrocław is a church of the Baptist Church located in Wrocław, Poland, at 20A Łukasińskiego Street.
Wikipedia: II Zbór Kościoła Chrześcijan Baptystów we Wrocławiu (PL), Website
Sight 17: 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 18: 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 19: 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 20: dawny dworzec Wrocław Górnośląski
Wrocław Górnośląski – a closed railway station and station of the Upper Silesian Railway, located at 13 Stanisława Małachowskiego Street in the Przedmieście Świdnickie housing estate in Wrocław.
Sight 21: Dobry wieczór we Wrocławiu
Good evening in Wrocław - a neon located on the roof of the apartment block at ul. Piłsudskiego 106–114 in Wrocław. Neon is realized in the form of a two -half -meter human figure with a flower in one hand and a tilted hat in the other and the inscription "Good evening in Wroclaw" on the right.
Sight 22: Teatr Muzyczny Capitol
Capitol Musical Theatre – a musical theatre founded in Wrocław in 2004, which is a continuation of earlier theatres existing in the same place, such as: Lower Silesian Operetta, Musical Theatre, Wrocław Operetta and Musical Theatre – Wrocław Operetta
Sight 23: Kościół Świętego Henryka
St. Henry's Church in Wrocław at Gliniana Street – a neo-Gothic, two-tower basilica church on a Latin cross plan, with a wreath of chapels around the transept and chancel.
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