Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Wrocław, Poland

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Number of sights 49 sights
Distance 10.9 km
Ascend 138 m
Descend 135 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: 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

672 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: 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 3: 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)

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: 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 5: 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

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: 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

289 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Kościół Świętych Stanisława, Doroty i Wacława

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The Church of Sts. Dorothea, Wenceslaus, and Stanislaus is a Gothic Roman Catholic church in the southern part of Wrocław's Old Town.

Wikipedia: St Dorothea Church, Wrocław (EN), Url 0

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Opera Wrocławska

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Opera Wrocławska

The Wrocław Opera is an opera company and opera house in the Old Town of Wrocław, Poland. The opera house was opened in 1841 and up to 1945 was named after the city's then German name, Oper Breslau.

Wikipedia: Wrocław Opera (EN), Url, Website

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Kościół parafialny pw. Bożego Ciała

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Corpus Christi Church is a Gothic church in Wrocław, Poland. The church is located at the corner of Świdnicka and ul. Bożego Ciała.

Wikipedia: Corpus Christi Church, Wrocław (EN), Website, Url 0

495 meters / 6 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

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: 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 13: 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 14: 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)

8 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: 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 16: 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)

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: 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 18: 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

123 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: 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

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Dom altarystów Małgosia,

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Dom altarystów Małgosia,

Hansel and Gretel – two historic medieval tenement houses at the north-west 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 altarist houses 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 in Latin.  on the cartouche "Mors Ianua Vitae" –. There used to be a gate in this gate.

Wikipedia: Kamienice Jaś i Małgosia we Wrocławiu (PL)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: 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)

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: 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)

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 23: 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

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: 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

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Sight 25: 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

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 26: 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

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 27: 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

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 28: 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)

70 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 29: 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)

109 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 30: 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)

63 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 31: 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)

95 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 32: 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)

503 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 33: Kościół Świętego Krzysztofa

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St. Christopher's Church in Wrocław – the church of the Evangelical-Augsburg parish of St. Christopher in Wrocław, located at St. Christopher's Square located at the corner of Kazimierza Wielkiego and Wierzbowa Streets.

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

425 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 34: Bastion Sakwowy

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The Sack Bastion – a fragment of the former fortifications of the city of Wrocław, in their south-eastern corner. In the years 1948–2024, the hill was called the Partisan Hill. However, this was an unofficial name and in 2024 it was officially changed to the Sack Bastion.

Wikipedia: Bastion Sakwowy (PL)

626 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 35: 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

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 36: 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)

325 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 37: Baszta Niedźwiadka

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The Bear Tower – a medieval tower in the system of city fortifications of Wrocław, located between today's streets: Piaskowa and Kraińskiego, at the back of the Market Hall at Nankiera Square.

Wikipedia: Baszta Niedźwiadka (PL)

426 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 38: 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

221 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 39: 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

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 40: 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)

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 41: 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

290 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 42: Bastion Ceglarski

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Bastion Ceglarski

The Brick Bastion – a fragment of the fortifications of Wrocław, built in 1585 in the north-eastern part of the belt of external walls surrounding the Wrocław New Town. Demolished along with the walls at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Wikipedia: Bastion Ceglarski (PL), Url

725 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 43: most Grunwaldzki

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Grunwald Bridge is a suspension bridge over the river Oder in Wrocław, Poland, built between 1908 and 1910. Initially the bridge was called the Imperial Bridge (Kaiserbrücke), then the Bridge of Freedom (Freiheitsbrücke). The architectural design of the bridge was by a city councilor, Richard Plüddemann. The bridge opened on 10 October 1910 in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II.

Wikipedia: Grunwald Bridge (EN), Url 0

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 44: Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego

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The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Wrocław, in the deanery of Wrocław Cathedral, in the Archdiocese of Wrocław. It is located on Grunwaldzki Square.

Wikipedia: Kościół Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego we Wrocławiu (PL)

937 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 45: Kolumna Chrystusa Króla Wszechświata

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The Column of Christ the King of the Universe in Wrocław, also known as the Millennium Column, is a statue of Christ on the Cathedral Square in Wrocław, erected on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the bishopric of Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Kolumna Chrystusa Króla Wszechświata we Wrocławiu (PL), Inscription Url, Url

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 46: Archikatedra Świętego Jana Chrzciciela

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The St. John the Baptist Archcathedral is the seat of the Archdiocese of Wrocław and a landmark of the city of Wrocław in Poland. The cathedral, located in the Cathedral Island, is a Gothic church with Neo-Gothic additions. The current standing cathedral is the fourth church to have been built on the site.

Wikipedia: Wrocław Cathedral (EN), Url 0

183 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 47: Kościół Świętego Idziego

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Kościół Świętego Idziego Lvova Anastasiya (Львова Анастасия, Lvova) / CC BY-SA 3.0

St. Giles' Church in Wrocław – a late-Romanesque church from the 1st half of the 13th century in Ostrów Tumski in Wrocław. It is the oldest fully preserved building in Wrocław, and at the same time the oldest church in the city that is still active today.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Idziego we Wrocławiu (PL)

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Sight 48: Archdiocesan Museum

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Archdiocesan Museum

The Archdiocesan Museum in Wrocław – a museum founded in 1898 in Wrocław, one of the oldest archdiocesan museums in Poland; collects, m.in, a rich and rare collection of ancient and Gothic monuments, mainly from the times of the Piasts of Silesia.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Archidiecezjalne we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

684 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 49: 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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