Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Wrocław, Poland

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Number of sights 22 sights
Distance 8.4 km
Ascend 107 m
Descend 105 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 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.

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161 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Pociąg do nieba

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Train to Heaven – an installation located in Wrocław at Strzegomski Square, unveiled in October 2010. A real historic Ty2-1035 steam locomotive was used to build it.

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1562 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 3: most Władysława Sikorskiego

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most Władysława Sikorskiego

Sikorski Bridge – one of the bridges over the South Oder River in Wrocław, on the axis of Podwale Street.

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577 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Muzeum Archeologiczne

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The Archaeological Museum in Wrocław is one of the seven branches of the City Museum of Wrocław. Together with the Military Museum, it is located in the complex of buildings of the medieval Municipal Arsenal. In the past, the museum had other locations, m.in. at the end of the twentieth century, it was located in the Royal Palace. He specializes in the archaeology of Silesia. The mission of the Archaeological Museum is to acquire, develop and make available archaeological artefacts from Silesia. It is one of the oldest institutions of this type in Europe.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Archeologiczne we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Muzeum Militariów

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Military Museum in Wrocław - one of the seven branches of the Wrocław City Museum. Together with the Archaeological Museum, it houses a complex of the Medieval City Arsenal buildings, also known as the Mikołajsk Arsenal, located at ul. Cieszyńskiego 9. The museum occupies two wings of the arsenal, and the exhibitions extend on 3 floors.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Militariów we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

328 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Krzesło

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Chair – an outdoor sculpture by Tadeusz Kantor standing at the intersection of Rzeźnicza Street and Nowy Świat Street in Wrocław. The sculpture was one of the projects for the urban space prepared on the occasion of the Wrocław '70 Visual Arts Symposium. Another sculpture, created in Wrocław according to the designs from the Symposium, is ARENA made according to the design of Jerzy Bereś.

Wikipedia: Krzesło (rzeźba) (PL)

176 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Ku czci Zwierząt Rzeźnych

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The Monument "In Honour of Slaughter Animals" – a group of sculptures of slaughtered animals on Stare Jatki Street in Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Pomnik „Ku czci Zwierząt Rzeźnych” (PL), Url

460 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: Jaz Wrocław II

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Jaz Wrocław II

Jaz hydroelectric power plant Wrocław II - a weir located in Wrocław on the Odra River, and more precisely on its branch, the so -called North Odra, as part of the Wrocław Water junction.

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

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Muzeum Geologiczne

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The Henryk Teisseyre Geological Museum in Wrocław is a unit of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of Wrocław, at 30 Cybulskiego Street.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Geologiczne im. Henryka Teisseyre we Wrocławiu (PL)

31 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: Muzeum Mineralogiczne

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The Kazimierz Maślankiewicz Mineralogical Museum in Wrocław is a unit of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of Wrocław, at 30 Cybulskiego Street, with a branch at 22 Kuźnicza Street.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Mineralogiczne im. Kazimierza Maślankiewicza we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

1111 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 11: Most Młyński Południowy

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Most Młyński Południowy

The Mill Bridges in Wrocław – a complex of two bridges over the branches of the Northern Oder. Bridges connect Sand Island with Mill Island and Mill Island with the right bank of the river. Before 1945, they were collectively called Gneisenau Brücke.

Wikipedia: Mosty Młyńskie (PL)

369 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: ruiny prawobrzeżnego zamku Piastów Śląskich

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ruiny prawobrzeżnego zamku Piastów Śląskich

The Castle on Ostrów Tumski in Wrocław – the former residence of the Wrocław castellans, and later the Piast district princes on the western edge of Ostrów Tumski. From the brick castle from the 12th and 13th centuries, which was built in the place of a hillfort existing since the 10th century, only the heavily distorted church of St. Martin and a few fragments within other buildings or under ground level have survived. The former castle occupied the area on both sides of the present-day St. Martin's Street between the Oder River, Świętokrzyska Street and the buildings of St. Martin's Street 10 and 12.

Wikipedia: Zamek na Ostrowie Tumskim we Wrocławiu (PL)

294 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Joseph von Eichendorff

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The Joseph von Eichendorff Monument in Wrocław is a reconstructed monument to the German poet Joseph von Eichendorff located in the Botanical Garden in Wrocław.

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220 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: 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

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: Karol Linneusz

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Karol Linneusz

Monument to Carl Linnaeus in Wrocław – a monument commemorating the person of Carl Linnaeus. Its author was Albert Rachner. It was built in 1871 and unveiled on 23 May 1871. The founder of the monument in 1870 was Moritz Wesel. The monument has the form of a realistic and detailed bust placed on a pedestal – a high pedestal with classicist forms. In relation to this type of monuments, the term "portrait monument" is used.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Karola Linneusza (PL)

190 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Museum of Natural History

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The Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław is a large natural history museum at the University of Wrocław, in Wrocław, Poland.

Wikipedia: Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław (EN)

491 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: skwer Skaczącej Gwiazdy

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skwer Skaczącej Gwiazdy

Square of the Jumping Star (Springstern) - a square located in Wrocław within the Ołbin estate, which is the area of ​​the urban green space, whose name was given by the resolution of the City Council of Wrocław of November 4, 2010, and applies from December 15, 2010. This name comes from From the historically located in this area of ​​the former city walls - a street located here on Szańce, is a toponic trace of former city fortifications erected in 1771–1782 on the order of the Prussian king Fryderyk II. The very term "jumping star" is derived from the same name (Springstern) of the Bastion syndrome constituting the north-eastern fortifications of eighteenth-century Wrocław located once in this area. The name Springstern comes from the layout of this fortification team. These fortifications were demolished in 1807 after the capture of the city by the French army on their order. One of the then arms of the Odra River at that time, which was overwhelmed at the same time.

Wikipedia: Skwer Skaczącej Gwiazdy we Wrocławiu (PL)

327 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Głaz Galla Anonima

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Galla Anonim's boulder - a monument erected in Wrocław in the first high school, a former monument to the Frieseen Corps.

Wikipedia: Głaz Galla Anonima (PL)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Kościół Opieki Świętego Józefa

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The Church of the Protection of St. Joseph in Wrocław – a classicist-neo-Romanesque church designed by architect Carl Ferdinand Langhans, built in the years 1821–1823, located in Wrocław at 1 Ołbińska Street at the intersection with Jedności Narodowej Street.

Wikipedia: Kościół Opieki św. Józefa we Wrocławiu (PL)

804 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 20: Kościół pw. Świętego Michała Archanioła

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The Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Wrocław-Ołbin – a neo-Gothic building located at the intersection of Bolesława Prusa and Wyszyńskiego streets in Wrocław, in the Ołbin housing estate.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Michała Archanioła we Wrocławiu (PL)

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: park Świętej Edyty Stein

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St. Edith Stein Park is a small park in Wroclaw located entirely in the Ołbin housing estate. It was separated from the Stanisław Tołpa Park by virtue of the resolution of the Wrocław City Council of 17 March 2011 No. VIII/98/11; by virtue of this resolution, the current patron of the park is St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. The park is located within the following streets: Nowowiejska Street, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński Street, Blessed Edith Stein Street.

Wikipedia: Park Świętej Edyty Stein (PL)

378 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 22: Park Stanisława Tołpy

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Stanisław Tołpa Park, Waschteich Park – a small park in Wrocław, located entirely in the Ołbin housing estate. Until 2005, the park was called Nowowiejski Park, on the basis of § 1 point 5 of the Resolution No. LXXI/454/93 of the Wrocław City Council of 9 October 1993 on the names of parks and forest areas existing in Wrocław. The change of the name of the park took place by the resolution of the City Council of Wrocław of 7 July 2005 No. XL/2481/05; by virtue of this resolution, the current patron of the park is Stanisław Tołpa.

Wikipedia: Park Stanisława Tołpy (PL)

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